Opinion
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Free Market Meets Society’s Needs
Opinion -Anti-business activists are using the Enron debacle as an excuse to lay the blame for all manner of societal ills at the front door of big business, while calling for more government regulations. -
Global Climate Coalition disbands
Opinion -The Global Climate Coalition (GCC), a Washington-based group that once was the dominant voice of U.S. industry on the climate change issue, has announced its "deactivization. -
Guilt-free guzzling
Opinion -It was only a few months ago that the hysterics were dominating the talk over energy prices. Gasoline was running toward $2 a gallon and destined for $3. -
Hippocratic Hypocrisy
Opinion -Managing Editor’s note: The American College of Physicians/American Society of Internal Medicine—a key participant in the Medical Professionalism Project described below—will meet in Philadelphia on April 11-14. -
Humans bring end to Ice Age disasters
Opinion -During an Internet debate in February, federal climatologist Michael McCracken (not a global warming skeptic) revealed that rising CO2 concentrations may have banished forever the disastrous Ice Ages that have bedeviled the Earth for the past few million -
Internet Offers Easy, Illegal Access to Pharmaceutical Drugs
Opinion -Some Internet drug store sites ignore any manner of medical review or prescription authorization. They boldly go where no law-abiding pharmacy would dare to go. -
Law Gives Charter Schools Access to Tax-Exempt Bonds
Opinion -A recent change to federal law permits local school districts and charter schools to enter into public-private partnerships to take advantage of tax-exempt bonds for developing new school facilities as well as renovating, refurbishing, and equipping -
Letters to the Editor
Opinion -Dear Mr. Taylor: I have just read your editorial [“When proselytizing goes to far,” Environment & Climate News, February 2002] and I suggest that where you went wrong was to allow such drivel to be espoused without immediate challenge! -
‘Marriage Made in Heaven’ Would Be Good News for Consumers
Opinion -Last October, in an announcement with major implications for rural America, the nation’s two major digital satellite television service providers announced plans to merge. -
More Troubles for TennCare
Opinion -The federal government's unwillingness to meet Tennessee's request for $13 billion over three years for TennCare could mean the end of the state's Medicaid managed care program and force the state to return to traditional Medicaid, a state official told -
Supplemental Rebate Bills Pending (table)
Opinion -Supplemental Rebate BillsPending in the States(as of March 2002) Arizona SB 1091 California SB 697 Colorado SB 162 and HB 1314 -
U.S. Faces Malpractice Crisis
Opinion -Today, American medicine is at the point of no return in its relationship with the predatory medical malpractice lawsuit industry, and with the dangerously high insurance premiums it spawns. -
We Call it Insurance, But That’s Not Healthy
Opinion -Most efforts to improve the nation’s health care finance system involve tinkering with the present insurance-based model. Such efforts are likely to fail in the long run, because insurance itself is the wrong model for part of the system. -
Forest Service caught submitting false visitor numbers
Opinion -At the same time the lynx and grizzly bear scandals were being uncovered, the U.S. Forest Service was forced to admit still another instance of providing false information. -
Balancing act
Opinion -The first line of defense for a sound, common-sense approach to environment issues is made up of local citizens participating at the grassroots level. -
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.
