Opinion
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Open mouth, insert foot
Opinion -For advocates of global warming theory, new evidence showing no global warming could not have come at a worse time. -
Spitzer’s New York smog
Opinion -New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer claims the Bush administration is verging on a "wholesale weakening of the Clean Air Act." In fact, Spitzer is the real threat to New York's air quality. -
CDC: Centers for Development Control?
Opinion -In a development watched closely by those of us who live beyond the city limits, doctors and researchers from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued a report insisting suburban living is hazardous to your health. -
HOPE Tax Credits Bring Increased Regulation
Opinion -In his April 2001 analysis of the HOPE Scholarship Program, Thomas R. -
It’s All About Money and Power: an exclusive interview with Peter R. Denton
Opinion -Energy = MC2 Just as Einstein had a formula for transforming solid matter into energy, New Jersey engineer-businessman Peter R. -
Productivity in Public Education
Opinion -Productivity is the rate of output per unit of input. In most instances, productivity means labor productivity: the quantity of output produced by a given quantity of labor. -
NCATE Objects to SRN Report
Opinion -Donna M. Gollnick, senior vice president of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), recently contacted School Reform News regarding an article about NCATE's standards and diversity by contributing editor Robert Holland. -
Despite 50-Year Effort, Schools Become More Segregated
Opinion -Half a century of attempting to improve the academic achievement of African-American students and better integrate American society through the desegregation of public schools has proven largely disappointing. -
President Bush’s Education Bill: The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
Opinion -The U.S. Department of Education has placed information on President Bush's new education bill online at www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/esea. The following information is based on the Fact Sheet from that site. -
Health Care Spending Rockets Upward
Opinion -Hit by a recession and double-digit increases in health care costs, employers are taking aggressive steps to control their medical spending. Consumers are being asked to pay more for their medical care and take more responsibility for their care. -
Poll: Long-Term Care Confuses Seniors
Opinion -A new national survey conducted for AARP, the senior citizen advocacy group, finds few seniors grasp the real costs of long-term care, and they don’t understand what their options are for paying that bill. -
Happy Birthday to Us!
Opinion -Health Care News celebrates its first birthday this month! Like most infants, we’ve grown by leaps and bounds, thanks to the tender loving care and devoted attention of scores of parents, aunts and uncles, kissing cousins, and generous friends. -
Alliance of feds, activist groups threatens rural America
Opinion -One of the most potent political alliances to emerge in the United States in recent years is carrying out a well-coordinated and unrelenting assault on the nation's rural communities. -
SUVs and the addiction to taxation
Opinion -Just when the blame-America-for-September 11 campaigns appeared to be running out of gas, a new version is rapidly gaining momentum. Blame the SUV! The idea that gas-guzzling SUVs are somehow feeding U.S. -
Bush Forest Service, federal judge further restrict logging
Opinion -Anti-market activist groups won two significant victories in December and January as first the Bush Forest Service, and then a federal district judge, placed new restrictions on timber recovery in the American West. -
State Education Roundup
Opinion -California Davis' Budget Puts Kids on Hook A key element in California Governor Gray Davis' proposed budget for 2002-03 would require the state's children to pay for the governor's current budget deficit woes when they are grown and in their -
Time to Fight the CAFE Leviathan
Opinion -Ronald Reagan once said that a federal program, once started, is the closest thing we know to immortality. That saying is being proven true in spades with efforts in the U.S. -
Gov’t researchers caught planting false ESA evidence
Opinion -Congressmen from western states called on the federal government to mount an investigation after government researchers were caught planting false evidence of endangered species in national forests. The fraud was discovered when a U.S. -
Still wrong after all these years
Opinion -The World Summit on Sustainable Development will convene in Johannesburg, South Africa, in September 2002. The World Summit is the 10th anniversary follow-up to the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. -
Daschle battles environmentalists over spent South Dakota mine
Opinion -The battle over Missouri River water is not the only environmental issue in which Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is battling fellow Democrats. -
New studies throw cold water on warming theory
Opinion -Two major new studies, as well as temperature readings from precise satellite measurements, have produced strong new evidence the Earth is not warming. -
Enron backed emissions trading
Opinion -Democrats hope to link the Bush administration with the Enron debacle. -
Abraham selects Yucca Mountain; political legal battles begin
Opinion -Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham announced on January 11 he will officially recommend Yucca Mountain in Nevada as the permanent storage site for the nation's spent nuclear fuel. -
Skeptical Environmentalist Savaged, Vindicated
Opinion -Scientific American has sicced the big dogs on Danish statistician Bjørn Lomborg for having the audacity to publish a highly referenced book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, which argues global warming and many other environmental "threats" are