Opinion
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FSC not ‘top choice,’ wrong choice for Lowe’s
Opinion -Long before the sun was up on Sunday morning, Fred Hardin and I pulled out of Fred's driveway headed toward Charlotte, North Carolina. Ours was an early morning ritual familiar to many NASCAR fans: It was race day. -
EPA criticized for selective enforcement
Opinion -The Environmental Protection Agency has come under fire from politicians and environmentalists for selectively enforcing EPA regulations. -
Klamath farmers defy feds
Opinion -Farmers in Oregon's drought-stricken Klamath Basin celebrated Independence Day by repeatedly defying federal Bureau of Reclamation officials, diverting small streams of water from Upper Klamath Lake for their thirsting crops. -
09/2001: State Legislative Update
Opinion -Georgia State and federal cuts in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements have packed a financial punch. Some doctors, especially those in rural areas, have dropped out of government assistance programs rather than risk operating their practice at a loss. -
Losing Our Grip
Opinion -These days, everyone is claiming to be a winner in the patients’ bill of rights debate. Rep. -
‘Teach for America’ Instructors Shine
Opinion -Instructors who enter teaching through the decade-old Teach for America program perform as well as or better than teachers entering the profession by more traditional routes, according to a new study of teachers in the Houston Independent School District. -
Chaotic Classrooms
Opinion -"In our few years in this school system, in both my younger and older child's classrooms, disruption never seems to abate and learning is constantly impeded. -
Charter School Facilities and Finance
Opinion -As with any other business startup, charter schools need funds to pay for developing and staffing the facility . . . even before the first paying customer walks in the door. This requires finding lenders to fund the start-up expenses. -
Sierra Club exposes ‘smart growth’ madness
Opinion -How dense is dense enough for smart growth? Smart-growth advocates in Minnesota's Twin Cities (average density: 1,800 people per square mile) say the Twin Cities area needs to be as dense as Portland (average density: 3,000 people per square mile). -
Bonn delegation passes ‘Kyoto Lite’
Opinion -Enacting many of the changes previously insisted upon by U.S. President George W. Bush, delegates to the Bonn global warming talks agreed on July 23 to a revised Kyoto agreement for the curtailment of greenhouse gases. -
HHS Issues Privacy Guidelines
Opinion -The U.S. Department Health and Human Services (HHS) released on July 6 the first set of privacy guidelines required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). -
How to Insure the Health of Millions of Uninsured Americans Immediately
Opinion -Health insurance is expensive. -
Warning to Middle-School Teachers: Science Texts Unreliable
Opinion -Almost everyone knows East from West, so it's unlikely any middle-school science teachers or their students would be misled by the compass displayed in the 2000 and 2001 editions of Prentice Hall's Science Explorer, which has East and West reversed. -
Now Schools Get Report Cards, Just Like Students
Opinion -A key element in bringing about a competitive education industry is falling into place thanks to the Internet. -
Making a Federal Case out of Health Care
Opinion -You may recall that Capitol Hill’s race to regulate health care at Club Fed received one of the biggest booster shots nearly five years ago. We are still suffering from the side effects. -
CMS Encourages Innovation
Opinion -Since January 22, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, formerly the Health Care Financing Administration, has approved 910 new and pending Medicaid and SCHIP amendments and waivers. -
How to Improve School Productivity? Caroline Minter Hoxby
Opinion -Although it's only seven years since Caroline Minter Hoxby received her Ph.D. -
‘Just Gotta Learn from the Wrong Things You Done’
Opinion -I've long had an interest in health policy. But I first became passionate about health care during the epic battle over Clintoncare. I still regard that victory as one of my party's finest hours. -
09/2001: The Pulse
Opinion -Lots of people are making the connection that MSAs are a better way to empower patients than are lawsuits after someone is dead or injured. The Florida Times-Union argues the PBOR is actually a “trial lawyers’ bill of rights. -
States and the Patients’ Bill of Rights
Opinion -"We are very concerned about federal pre-emption of our state law, which is working well for the citizens of Ohio. Federal pre-emption is not necessary," said J. -
Undoing the Wrong Things You Done
Opinion -Since I began writing on health care social policy, I have tried hard to give the benefit of the doubt to those who claim to stand on high moral ground in defense of their intentions to provide for the “greater social good. -
New Medicaid Reform Empowers States
Opinion -President George W. Bush has a plan to extend Medicaid coverage to more people . . . without spending more money. -
Snookered Again
Opinion -Most physicians are wonderful people. They are super intelligent, ethical, and brave. They take upon themselves the burden of deciding matters of life and death. And not just in some abstract, theoretical way, but down and dirty where the blood is. -
Union Called Shots on Democrats’ Agenda
Opinion -Although then-Vice President Al Gore last year emphatically denied that he opposed school vouchers to reward labor unions that helped finance his party and his campaign, campaign documents show labor union leaders had "effective veto power" over