Opinion
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Doing the ‘Do Something’ Shuffle
Opinion -Hope glimmered for America’s bloated medical economy on June 4, when Thomas Scully made his public debut as head of the Health Care Financing Administration, the federal agency that provides health insurance to over 74 million people through Medicare, -
Education Industry News
Opinion -Has the momentum generated by the for-profit education sector weakened? Consider recent industry news: several company announcements of staff reductions; an estimated 30 percent write-down, totaling more than $5. -
Ford self-imposes global warming plan
Opinion -The Ford Motor Company in a May 3 corporate citizen report announced it has created an executive team to find ways for Ford to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In the report, Ford chairman William Clay Ford Jr. -
Forstmann Launches New Campaign
Opinion -Children's Scholarship Fund co-founder Ted Forstmann earlier this year launched a new national, nonprofit organization called Parents in Charge to encourage a wider debate about the real problems and possibilities of the American K-12 educational system. -
Hawaii Lawmakers Reconsider Privacy Law
Opinion -Mass confusion has forced Hawaii lawmakers in the 2001 legislative session to put a medical records privacy law on hold and convene a special task force to review the law and recommend changes. The task force’s report was expected by July 1. -
Interior Secretary Norton to block reintroduction of grizzlies
Opinion -Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton has decided to scrap a Clinton administration plan to reintroduce grizzly bears into areas of Montana and Idaho. -
Judge blocks Clinton-Bush ban on roads in National Forests
Opinion -A federal judge in Idaho has blocked a ban on new roads in nearly half of America’s National Forests, ruling the ban would cause irreparable harm to multi-use interests. -
Just the Facts: Homeschooling Resource Guide
Opinion -The number of homeschooling families in the United States has been growing at an estimated 15 percent a year in recent years, with interest in alternatives to public schools surging after the Columbine High School massacre two years ago. -
Killing Mosquitoes or Killing Humans?
Opinion -It took me a long time to understand why so many environmentalists oppose any and all pesticides. -
Mass. Lawmakers Scramble to Preempt Voter Initiative
Opinion -Perhaps hearing the footsteps of a possible statewide bilingual education reform initiative approaching in their not-too-distant future, Massachusetts policymakers have hurried to pass reform measures they can point to as meaningful, thus preempting a -
Nation’s energy shortage highlights the need for free markets
Opinion -The current debate over tapping energy reserves in such places as Alaska, the Great Lakes, the Rocky Mountains, and the Gulf of Mexico illustrates the shortfalls of taking the free market out of our national energy policy and giving government ownership -
New Jersey’s Health Insurance Disaster
Opinion -This is the story of how one state, New Jersey, destroyed its private individual health insurance market in the name of “health care reform.” It is a cautionary lesson to elected officials and policy analysts around the country. -
Nobel to Expand into Southern California
Opinion -A few days before posting record third-quarter revenues from its current operations, the nation's largest non-sectarian operator of private schools, Nobel Learning Communities, Inc. -
Patients Rights? Try Prisoners Rights
Opinion -It may sound healthy, this debate we're hearing in Washington over a "Patients’ Bill of Rights." But it's like listening to prisoners clamor for better food and more yard time. No matter what the outcome, they're still prisoners. -
President issues national energy plan
Opinion -President Bush on May 17 announced a comprehensive energy program designed to provide long-term solutions to the nation’s current energy woes. -
State Education Roundup
Opinion -Arizona Keegan to Head Education Leaders Council In May, Arizona State Superintendent of Public Education Lisa Graham Keegan announced her plans to step down from her elected state post to become chief executive of the Washington, DC-based -
Study: Student-Centered Learning Ineffective
Opinion -A recent evaluation of a class-size reduction program in Wisconsin has concluded that teacher-centered learning is clearly more effective than student-centered learning. -
Taking a Fresh Look at Special Education
Opinion -If early signs are predictive, the bipartisanship President George W. -
Wrong Prescription for High Drug Prices
Opinion -One of the Clinton-Gore administration’s final acts before leaving office was to launch a campaign to demonize the nation’s pharmaceutical industry. -
Single-Payer Health Care Would Enslave a Nation
Opinion -Single-payer health care systems are frequently proposed as the solution to the problem of the uninsured. In theory, such arrangements would guarantee that all citizens have a health insurance policy. -
Health Tax Credits Would Supplement Employment-Based Coverage
Opinion -A number of legislative proposals on Capitol Hill would provide uninsured workers with a tax credit to help them purchase health insurance. -
Minnesota Adopts New HMO Treatment Guidelines
Opinion -The “managed” in managed care has taken a new turn, as Minnesota’s five major managed care organizations recently agreed to jointly develop comprehensive treatment guidelines for patient care. -
Is Kyoto dead?
Opinion -Well before President George W. Bush's decision to forego controls on carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, many supporters of the Global Climate Treaty had expressed doubts about the targets and timetables of the Kyoto Protocol. -
Proposed regulation will curtail snowmobile use
Opinion -The National Park Service's proposal to close Rocky Mountain National Park to snowmobiles except for a two-mile stretch of the North Supply Creek Access Trail is unjustified, according to a public interest comment submitted to the agency by the Mercatus
