Opinion
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A Salute to Clint Bolick
Opinion -Citizens for Education Freedom honored Clint Bolick, vice president and litigation director for the Institute for Justice, with the Educational Freedom Award at CEF's Fortieth Anniversary Gala Banquet in St. Louis, Missouri, on October 16, 1999. -
The accidental capitalist: An interview with Lou Licht
Opinion -Dr. Louis A. Licht, Ph.D., P.E., is the founder and president of Ecolotree Inc., the world's first for-profit phytoremediation company. Phytoremediation is the process of using plants to control and even alleviate pollution problems. -
Traditional carcinogens for the holidays, anyone?
Opinion -The traditional American holiday meal, which typically includes foods like mushroom soup, roast turkey, potatoes, green salad, fruit, and pumpkin pie, is really a chemical feast of toxins and carcinogens--all courtesy of Mother Nature. -
Dirty Secrets that Certification Doesn’t Expose
Opinion -While the National Education Association is pushing to require certification for all teachers in public schools to protect students from unqualified teachers, a recent series of stories in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette indicates that students are far -
Incentives: The fundamental problem in education: an interview with Eric A. Hanushek
Opinion -“The fundamental problem in education is that there aren’t any incentives to increase student performance. Nobody’s career is really dependent upon the children doing well.” Some of the questions that economist Eric A. -
Court Lifts Cloud over Cleveland
Opinion -Responding to an October 28 request from Ohio Attorney General Betty Montgomery to take emergency action, the U.S. Supreme Court on November 5 voted 5-4 to stay an injunction against the Cleveland school choice program. -
High School Grads Lack College, Work Skills
Opinion -While public school educators frequently raise concerns that many entry-level students don't come to school "ready-to-learn," many employers and college professors raise similar concerns about the work product of these same educators: high school -
Union Chief: Give Money to Us, Not to Parents
Opinion -"I represent teachers. That's who I represent. -
Capitol Hill Conference Hails School Choice
Opinion -It has been 20 years since Tom Tancredo, then a Colorado state legislator, introduced his first voucher legislation in Denver. His proposal never even make it out of the education committee that he himself chaired . . . but Tancredo didn't give up. -
The Leipzig Declaration on Global Climate Change
Opinion -In 1991, a year before the global climate treaty was signed in Rio de Janeiro, a group of scientists and others met in Mexico and issued The Morelia Declaration, which became the philosophical underpinning of the “global warming” movement. -
Biotech reporting mimics Hollywood rumor mill
Opinion -A few years ago, the mainstream press started covering what the gossip sheets were saying about celebrities. -
Gore’s ‘global warming mentor,’ in his own words
Opinion -If Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius is the grandfather of greenhouse warming (ca. 1897), then oceanographer Roger Revelle is certainly its father. -
NET launches misinformation campaign
Opinion -A coalition of environmental organizations has announced an $11 million campaign this fall "to educate the public about global warming. -
Private Water Conservation Can Work
Opinion -For Oregon and other western states, water is a scarce commodity. -
Farmer challenges EPA authority under Clean Water Act
Opinion -California farmers Guido and Betty Pronsolino have filed suit against the Environmental Protection Agency, claiming the agency overstepped its authority when it denied the family a chance to harvest timber from its farm. -
Western land grab by President
Opinion -“Over two-hundred years ago we decided that the King would not rule. We decided that the King’s lands would be everyone’s lands. -
Court strikes down EPA ‘Over-filing’
Opinion -A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cannot fine companies for violations of hazardous waste regulations if state agencies have already taken action. -
FWS ‘slush fund’ exposed in Congressional hearings
Opinion -“What the Fish and Wildlife Service doesn’t seem to understand is that Dingell-Johnson and Pittman-Robertson funds are for fish and wildlife conservation programs in the 50 states--not a slush fund for agency officials,” Don Young -
EPA stymied in effort to get farm data
Opinion -The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), the data-gathering arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has refused to comply with a data-sharing agreement reached earlier this year with the Environmental Protection Agency. -
Parent ‘Vote’ Is Key to Better Schools
Opinion -Today, we think it strange that women once didn't have the vote. In the future, says entrepreneur John Walton, co-founder of the Children’s Scholarship Fund, it will seem equally strange that many Americans today don't have an educational vote. -
Call to Halt School-to-Work Spending
Opinion -WASHINGTON--Since the 104th Congress passed the School-to-Work Opportunities Act in 1994, the federal government has dispensed a total of $2 billion in implementation grants to the 50 states. -
Views on Vouchers
Opinion -It’s not a matter of public vs. private schools, it’s a matter of better schools. -
EPA Ignored Its Own Scientists on MTBE
Opinion -When an EPA-appointed blue-ribbon panel announced last summer it was recommending that use of the gasoline additive MTBE be "reduced substantially," the curtain began falling on one of the most bizarre--and avoidable--missteps in recent U.S. -
High Court to rule on ‘citizen suits’
Opinion -The U.S. Supreme Court will rule this session on whether “citizen suits” filed under the Clean Water Act (CWA) and other environmental laws are constitutional.