Opinion
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Animal Law: No Longer a Sideshow
Opinion -“Would even bacteria have rights?” Richard Epstein, professor of law at the University of Chicago, recently asked The New York Times. -
Commentary: ‘Smart Growth’ Won’t Save Cities, but a Market Solution Might
Opinion -One reason for the popularity of the "Smart Growth" idea among some public officials is the claim that curbing new development at the outskirts of metropolitan areas can revive declining central cities. -
Interim Report on Amoco Cancer Cluster Released
Opinion -Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Johns Hopkins University, brought in by Amoco Corp. (now BP Amoco PLC) to study an apparent cluster of brain tumor cases, released an interim report on August 5. -
Family Ousted from Home on Columbia River
Opinion -Thirteen months after Brian and Jody Bea built their home overlooking the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington, the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Commission not only decided they couldn’t live there, but also mandated that the house be -
Cancer Clusters: Statistically Inevitable?
Opinion -Scientists and environmentalists often differ in their explanations for why "cancer clusters"--unusually high numbers of cancer cases in a small area--occur. -
Dixy Lee Ray Symposium: CO2 Levels: Too Much of a Good Thing?
Opinion -As the world's economies continue to rely on fossil fuels, carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere continue to rise. Is that good news or bad? And if it's bad, what is the "something" we should do about it? -
Crawford: Regulatory Improvement Act Would Achieve ‘Long-sought Goal of Science-based Decision-making’
Opinion -In my view and based on my experience, S. 746, the "Regulatory Improvement Act of 1999," would remedy a pernicious problem that has increasingly bedeviled the U.S. rule-making process. -
Alaska’s Forests Left to Die by Government ‘Stewards’
Opinion -Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula is a lush, green wilderness pointing southwest from Anchorage toward Kodiak Island . . . no more. -
Ferries Under Fire
Opinion -Ferry boats each year provide 100 million passengers in 35 states with an alternative means of transportation that not only relieves traffic congestion, but often provides breathtaking views of their natural surroundings. -
11/1999 Junk Science Report: Smog and Mirrors
Opinion -New York’s attorney general plans to seek “enormous” legal damages from coal-fired power plants in the Midwest and South unless they stop polluting New York’s air. The U.S. -
Better America Bonds
Opinion -Vice President Al Gore, whose efforts to rid the country of urban sprawl and greenhouse gases have already made him the designated “environmentalist” candidate for the Y2K Presidential nomination, could soon have at his disposal $9. -
Chicago Moves Fast to Halt Beetle Spread
Opinion -In sharp contrast to the federal government’s inaction when faced with a beetle invasion, Chicago, Illinois moved quickly when it discovered trees infested by the Asian long-horned beetle. -
Federal District Court Brings Northwest Timber Sales to a Standstill
Opinion -Federal District Court Judge William Dwyer in Seattle granted a temporary injunction against 25 timber sales, after having previously halted nine projects involving 22 sales in early August. -
Going Ape
Opinion -“We demand the extension of the community of equals to include all great apes: human beings, chimpanzees, and orangutans,” declared the Great Ape Project, an animal rights group whose U.S. headquarters is listed as a post office box in Portland, Oregon. -
USDA Forest Service Works with Local Groups
Opinion -The U.S. Forest Service recently took a major step to protect spotted owl habitat and preserve old-growth forests, while at the same time providing for selective logging and clearing underbrush that causes wildfires. -
What Should We Call ‘Nonpublic Schools’?
Opinion -“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene ii "I am not a crook.” President Richard M. -
How to Discourage Competition
Opinion -The ongoing court battles over the constitutionality of the Cleveland voucher program not only tie up the resources of school choice advocates, but also create among the program’s participants fear, uncertainty, and doubt about the program’s future. -
Raising Education Standards
Opinion -Although it's unlikely that Congress will ever legislate national education standards, competition among the states will bring about the natural evolution of higher state standards, according to author Denis P. -
Can Poor Children Learn?
Opinion -Statistics show that most of America's public schools are failing the very children most in need of an education springboard to success: children from low-income families. -
Educational Freedom: A Civil Rights Issue
Opinion -When he presented his choice-based education policy proposals to a national forum of more than 5,000 black Baptist delegates in Tampa, Florida, GOP presidential candidate Steve Forbes knew he wasn't preaching to the choir. -
The Horizon Program
Opinion -The Horizon program, sponsored by the Children's Educational Opportunity Foundation, was launched in April 1998, allowing students in San Antonio's Edgewood Independent School District to use vouchers starting with the 1998_99 school year. -
How Arizona’s Tax Credit Works
Opinion -Author: Idea conceived by former lawmaker Trent Franks. Eligibility: Any individual who pays taxes to the State of Arizona. Donations made in a specific year are reported on tax returns for that year. -
Debunking Lies about School Choice
Opinion -Opponents of school choice are telling lies about the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program and the record needs to be set straight, former Milwaukee School Superintendent Howard Fuller told a Heritage Foundation audience in Washington, DC, on September 9. -
School Choice in Michigan
Opinion -A petition drive organized by Kids First! Yes! is under way in Michigan to collect 302,711 signatures to place a voucher question on the November 2000 ballot.