Opinion
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Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #1-9
Opinion -Canadian Hookers to Sue Hollywood for Lost Wages A group representing Vancouver prostitutes, beggars, and drug addicts is threatening to sue 30 movie and television production companies for interrupting their illicit businesses. -
Heartland Remembers September 11
Opinion -Like all Americans, we at The Heartland Institute wish to pause for a moment not only to remember one of this country's saddest anniversaries, but also to strive to understand the meaning of terrorist attacks in the context of history and their -
Teachers Shortchanged by Education Bureaucracy
Opinion -The Education Intelligence Agency recently issued a report that presents education statistics from a different angle, ranking states and school districts by measures such as teacher compensation as a percentage of instructional spending, number of -
Losing our heritage, our land
Opinion -The National Heritage Areas Act (HR 2388), sponsored by Reps. Joel Hefley (R-Colorado) and Nick Rahall (D-West Virginia), would do for land grabs what the assembly line did for automobiles. Private property would go the way of the horse and buggy. -
Forest Service still spinning the Thirty Mile Fire
Opinion -A year after last July’s deadly Thirty Mile Fire, the U.S. Forest Service’s public relations spin continues. -
Senate approves Yucca Mountain storage site
Opinion -The U.S. Senate on July 9 sealed the selection of Nevada’s Yucca Mountain as the single permanent storage place for the nation’s spent nuclear fuel. -
NSR rules must provide certainty
Opinion -When Detroit Edison proposed replacing worn turbine blades at two plants with an improved design that would increase efficiency by 4.5 percent, EPA Region V bureaucrats in May 2000 concluded doing so would not constitute “routine” maintenance. -
Forest Service says ‘no’ to American flag
Opinion -As if attacks on the Pledge of Allegiance weren’t enough, the federal government in July turned its attention to the American flag. Debbie Gaynor, a recreation forester for the U.S. -
Will UK get towers of power … or a load of hot air?
Opinion -As part of its commitment to tackle climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the British government wants renewable energy to provide 10 percent of the U.K.’s electricity by 2010 and 20 percent by 2020. -
Opposing ‘urban sprawl’ … or opposing people?
Opinion -Pinellas County, Florida, is the “smart growth” lobby’s dream. “Smart growth” is the self-description of Europe-wannabe groups seeking to pack as many of us Americans into as little space as possible. Suburbs: bad. High-rise tenements: good. -
Cooking the books for a better environment
Opinion -In early July, the World Wildlife Fund issued a report warning that mankind is strip-mining the Earth so rapidly we’ll be forced to colonize two additional planets by 2050 to support current trends in resource consumption. -
Big wins for Wise Use and property rights
Opinion -The U.S. House of Representatives considered the Interior Department appropriations bill in July, and advocates for access to public lands and private property rights won important victories. Snowmobiles amendment. Reps. -
Texas offers up big, bold transportation vision
Opinion -Vision looms large in American history. John F. Kennedy’s took us to the moon. Ronald Reagan’s led to the end of the Soviet Union. Dwight D. -
Wind farms no economic boon for North, South Dakotans
Opinion -Global Winds Harvest Inc. and UPC Wind Partners, LLC announced in April a joint effort to install wind turbines with a total capacity of 480 megawatts (MW) in Dickey County, North Dakota and McPherson County, South Dakota. -
Wrong-headedness killing the forests
Opinion -When the Hayman Fire—the largest wildfire in Colorado history—first began, the smoke billowed over my office in southwestern Denver. Outside, I could smell the fumes from flames 50 miles away. Worst yet, I could see the ash in the air! -
‘Pavley’s Ploy’ may carjack motorist choice
Opinion -How bad is the California auto emissions bill? ... Let me count the ways. -
California acts to limit CO2 emissions
Opinion -Governor Gray Davis on July 22 signed a controversial bill empowering the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to set mandatory carbon dioxide (CO2) reductions for California automobiles. -
Disappearing frogs and out-of-control fires: Must be global warming!
Opinion -In the May 4 edition of the Globe and Mail, a leading Canadian newspaper, Alanna Mitchell reports on a research paper from the March 28 issue of the journal Nature. -
Jeffords pushes mandatory national recycling plan
Opinion -Get ready to start separating, washing, and storing aluminum cans, if Senator Jim Jeffords (I-Vermont.) has his way. -
Stealing land in the Atchafalaya and Immokalee
Opinion -An American citizen whose land has been condemned by a federal agency or by any governmental entity, especially those receiving federal monies, has significant rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #1-8
Opinion -Udder Madness Reversing a lower court decision, the Wyoming Supreme Court ruled in July after three vehicles consecutively hit a Black Angus cow wandering on a state highway, the only person who could be sued for the two deaths that occurred in car #3 -
Disabled Children Need a Better IDEA
Opinion -It began in 1975 as a federal enactment intended to safeguard the individual rights of disabled children. -
Camden Is First to Call for Vouchers
Opinion -The first shot fired in the post-Cleveland phase of the school voucher battle was heard in the City Council Chambers of Camden, New Jersey, on July 25, less than a month after the U.S. -
Feds Plan to Ease Restrictions on Single-Sex Schools
Opinion -The U.S. Department of Education has announced it intends to relax regulations on single-sex schools and classes while continuing to prohibit discrimination in accordance with the Education Amendments of 1972.
