Opinion
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2000 State Education Policy in Review
Opinion -"Every governor wants to be the education governor, and every President wants to be the education President." Julie Bell National Conference of State Legislatures Improving U.S. -
SRN Just the Facts: Charter School Legislation: State Rankings
Opinion -States With No Charter Laws Alabama Iowa Indiana Kentucky Maryland Maine Montana North Dakota Nebraska South Dakota Tennessee Vermont Washington West Virginia The Center for Education Reform has developed a -
Paige Will Have Record Education Budget
Opinion -When Roderick Paige was confirmed as U.S. Department of Education Secretary in January, he took over a department with a record budget of $42.1 billion for fiscal year 2001, up by 18 percent over 2000. The U.S. -
Is This Commission Really Necessary?
Opinion -Among the many executive orders hurriedly issued by outgoing President Bill Clinton in the waning days of his administration was a January 15 order establishing a new Commission on Educational Resource Equity. -
A Strategy for Increasing Parental Involvement
Opinion -Since research shows that experimental school choice programs increase parental involvement, a recent Cato Institute study suggests that legislators seek policies that enhance parental decision-making in the education of their children. -
Welcome to the Inaugural Issue of Health Care News
Opinion -The year 2001 brought with it a new President, a new millennium, and another chance to put some common-sense back into social policy. It also brings the first issue of this publication, Health Care News. -
The Battle for Vermont
Opinion -The Vermont legislature, like the legislatures of many other states, recently defeated an attempt to pass a cloned version of the single-payer health care plan devised by the Clinton administration in 1994. -
Why California’s restructuring failed
Opinion -Electricity restructuring is a complicated process, in California and across the country. As California faces rolling blackouts and soaring energy prices, the consensus is growing among political activists that restructuring may have been a mistake. -
EPA seeks public involvement in environmental permitting process
Opinion -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, identifying "better public involvement" across all of its program areas as a high agency priority, released on October 23, 2000 a 121-page Public Involvement in Environmental Permits A Reference Guide. -
School Choice Scorecard as 2001 Begins
Opinion -The January 2001 issue of The Friedman Report provided the following status report on school choice in the states at the start of 2001, based on data from the National Conference of State Legislatures: Intra-District Choice (10) Alabama, -
Arizona Bilingual Programs Must Discontinue by Fall
Opinion -Arizona's landmark new law repealing bilingual education, passed nearly 2-1 by Arizona voters in November, may soon be facing rough waters as it moves into its implementation stage. -
MSAs Made Easy
Opinion -The information on this page is drawn from two publications of the American Medical Association’s Center for Health Policy Research, Medical Savings Accounts: Why the American Medical Association Supports Medical Savings Accounts (2000) and MSAs Made -
03/2001: The Pulse
Opinion -More MSA Experiments in AfricaFirst it was South Africa, and now Zimbabwe is moving ahead on the Medical Savings Account (MSA) front. A new company, Sovereign Health Zimbabwe, has been formed to provide coverage to companies with 10 or more employees. -
03/2001: State Legislative Update
Opinion -Arizona Arizona Senator Sue Grace has introduced legislation that would create a high-risk health insurance pool in the state. -
Supreme Court strikes down bird habitat rule
Opinion -In a major victory for private property rights proponents, the United States Supreme Court has struck down a rule giving the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authority to regulate isolated and wholly intrastate "ponds and mudflats. -
Global warming: Watson indulges in scare tactics . . . again
Opinion -In early January, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stepped up its campaign to coerce regulatory action from the United States by releasing the Summary for Policymakers from the IPCC's Third Assessment Report (TAR). -
Sprawl and the quality of life
Opinion -The most recent in a long line of anti-suburb studies is Driven to Spend, from the Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP), which analyzes the annual costs of personal transportation using U.S. -
Mass transit vs. cars: And the winner is . . .
Opinion -Critics of privately owned automobiles and trucks often claim that if external costs were taken into account and taxpayer subsidies ended, many people would abandon their cars for environmentally "superior" modes of transportation, especially transit. -
Critics of “smart growth” issue manifesto
Opinion -WASHINGTON, DEC. 21, 2000-- Two high-profile, "anti-sprawl" ballot initiatives in Arizona and Colorado were defeated November 7, but the debate over how--and even whether--to limit suburban growth continues. -
Congress holds private conservation hearings
Opinion -We expect "firsts" to occur at the beginning of a new legislative session. But in the heat of campaigns and last-minute political wrangling, they rarely happen at a session's close. -
Statement of Principle on Patient Choice
Opinion -October 11, 2000 Because the Patients' Bill of Rights will raise costs and reduce access to health insurance, employers and employees should have the ability to opt out of the provisions of the bill if they so desire. -
Employers Unite to Tackle Medical Errors
Opinion -Medical errors are an important consumer issue ripe for pandering to those who use health care the most: our elder generation. The button on this one doesn’t get any hotter. -
Who Is Conrad Meier?
Opinion -Conrad Meier is a senior fellow at The Heartland Institute and managing editor of Health Care News, Heartland’s monthly newspaper on market-based health care reform. -
Does Managed Care Cause Medical Errors?
Opinion -Managed care programs restrict patient and physician choices in order to lower prices paid by employers and minimize unnecessary procedures.
