Opinion
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Utah fights temporary storage facility
Opinion -With the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility at least eight years from becoming operational, local energy companies are finding it increasingly difficult to store their accumulating spent nuclear fuel. -
Density no solution for traffic, obesity problems
Opinion -The January issue of Environment & Climate News described a recent report published by Sprawlwatch as a "fake CDC" study. (See "Fake CDC study full of holes," Environment & Climate News, January 2002. -
‘Patient Safety’ Initiative Could Lead to Rationing
Opinion -The federal government's release of $50 million in patient safety grants may be used to create a national patient information system, warns the Citizens' Council on Health Care (CCHC), a Minnesota-based independent health care policy organization. -
State Risk Pools Under the Gun
Opinion -Managing Editor’s note: In August 2001, a report titled "Insuring the Uninsurable: An Overview of State High-Risk Health Insurance Pools," written by Lori Achman and Deborah Chollet of Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. -
Matthews Named Acting Director of CAHI
Opinion -The Board of Directors of the Council for Affordable Health Insurance (CAHI) announced on November 15, 2001 that Merrill Matthews Jr., Ph.D., has joined CAHI as Acting Director to lead its health reform efforts. -
Safety at School Involves More than Student Behavior
Opinion -Multiple homicide incidents in U.S. public schools in 1997 led to a significant tightening of school security procedures and policies. -
Tracking Spending and Student Achievement
Opinion -While the most recent reports from the National Assessment of Educational Progress indicate student achievement has stagnated in reading, mathematics, and science for at least the past decade, other reports from the National Center for Education -
When proselytizing goes too far
Opinion -The other day I decided to take my two daughters, ages one and three, on a nature walk. My girls love animals, and I truly enjoy communing with nature. -
02/2002 Galen Report
Opinion -Supporters of free-market health reform have a new reason to be in high spirits. -
Bomb Threat Prompts Webcam Solution
Opinion -In October 2000, New Hampshire's Londonderry School District was severely disrupted by numerous bomb threats, which at one point reached seven in a 10-day period. -
Canada may not sign Kyoto
Opinion -Minister for Industry Brian Tobin cast doubt on Canada ratifying the Kyoto Agreement on climate change: "There is a very strong consensus around the Cabinet table and in caucus that Canada must do nothing in competitive terms that would handcuff our -
Chief says Forest Service suffers from ‘analysis paralysis’
Opinion -The Forest Service is in gridlock due to "analysis paralysis," says Chief Dale Bosworth, who wants to solve the problem by streamlining the agency's decision-making process through new regulations. -
Desalinization plant splits environmentalists in central Florida
Opinion -For most of the past several years, central Florida has been battling a prolonged drought. -
Education Industry News
Opinion -A sampling of education industry news from The Education Economy, a weekly publication of the market research firm Eduventures, Inc., which conducts research on the pre-K-12, post-secondary, corporate training, and consumer markets worldwide. -
GAO, Nevada officials battle Yucca Mountain plan
Opinion -The General Accounting Office (GAO) and Nevada state officials are mounting new challenges to the Bush administration's plan to designate Yucca Mountain as permanent home for the nation's spent nuclear fuel. -
Health Care and the War on Drugs
Opinion -"Don't you know there's a war on?" So ran one of the more popular admonitions of World War II. It meant, in effect, "What you're doing ain't exactly contributing to the effort, so you best mend your ways." The principle applies today. -
High-Risk Pools: A Primer
Opinion -High-risk pools play an important role in the health care system. They are state-created, nonprofit associations that offer comprehensive health insurance benefits to individuals with pre-existing health problems. -
How to Solve Texas’ Uninsured Problem: A Minority Report
Opinion -In October 1999, then-Governor George W. -
Illiteracy: The Health Care Death Trap
Opinion -Many months ago, the popular TV show ER ran a sub-plot about a patient who died from an overdose of a prescribed medication. I expected to see lawyers invade the emergency room, demanding lawsuits for yet another alleged medical error. -
Lawsuit seeks drilling ban in remote Utah
Opinion -Two environmental groups on December 6 filed a lawsuit against the federal government to prohibit oil recovery in remote areas of southern Utah. -
NAS panel investigates Klamath water shutoff
Opinion -At the direction of Interior Secretary Gale Norton, the National Academy of Sciences has assembled a panel of 11 scientists to investigate the shutoff of irrigation water to farmers in the Klamath Basin of California and Oregon. -
Parents Have Mixed Views of School Uniforms
Opinion -Many of the parents in suburban Detroit interviewed by School Reform News indicated their support for public school uniforms. They also acknowledged they had no evidence their children would be safer because of uniforms. W. -
School Choice as Family Policy: John E. Coons
Opinion -The influential body of work of University of California, Berkeley Law Professor Emeritus John E. -
State Education Roundup
Opinion -CALIFORNIA District Thwarts Breakup, Faces Mismanagement Probe Having bulldozed an attempt by residents of Carson to form their own school district, the Los Angeles Unified School District repeated its success against residents of the San
