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A history lesson from Tasmania
Opinion -News stories about global climate change have recently included temperature histories that extend back for about a thousand years, thanks to the efforts of such researchers as the University of Virginia’s Michael Mann and colleagues. -
Roadless areas near you
Opinion -Nearly every state in the nation has areas that would be made off-limits for road construction or maintenance if the Clinton-Gore administration's "roadless areas" proposal is put into affect. Connecticut--whose Rep. -
Spending the Surplus
Opinion -The Clinton-Gore administration has proposed $42.5 billion in spending on environmental projects as part of the FY2001 budget—an increase of 11 percent over last year, and a 35 percent increase from when they took office in 1993. -
Ignored elves terrorize U.S.
Opinion -The burning of biotechnology offices in Michigan State University’s historic Agriculture Hall on New Year’s Eve; fire set to a home in a new development near Bloomington, Indiana on January 23; and “havoc” wreaked at a University -
Judicial update
Opinion -Citizens’ right to sue upheld On January 12, 2000 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that citizens do have the right to sue alleged polluters under the Clean Water Act. In a 7-2 decision in Friends of the Earth vs. -
I’m sick and tired of polls and I’m not going to take it any more!
Opinion -It used to be said that figures lie and liars figure. No more. Today they become pollsters . . . and the manipulators for whom they work. -
Science Panel: ‘Major Advances’ in Climate Modeling Required
Opinion -New findings from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) provide evidence that global climate model forecasts are unreliable indicators of future climate. -
Roads and roadless
Opinion -The drive to keep the American public out of public lands is picking up speed as the Clinton-Gore administration seeks ways to close off even more than the 60 million-plus acres already classified as roadless (see accompanying chart). -
Citizens sue President over National Monument
Opinion -Seven Arizona state lawmakers have joined 16 citizens to sue President Clinton and Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt over the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument recently created by the Clinton-Gore administration in Arizona under the Antiquities Act -
Earth Day 2000
Opinion -Go online. Take a look at www.earthday.net. It’s the home page for Earth Day Network. On Earth Day, April 22, 2000 (my birthday) there will be a huge celebration sponsored by Earth Day Network on the Mall in Washington, DC. -
Old growth trees meet predictable end
Opinion -A fierce wind storm that roared across Europe this winter tore down hundreds of “old growth” trees on the grounds of France’s famed Versailles Place. -
California woman seeks $2 million
Opinion -In 1988, Peggy Ann Buckley and her husband purchased a 2.75 acre parcel of property in Malibu, California to build a house. -
A nation of weather weenies?
Opinion -Our reaction to normal weather events prompts the following question: Is panic the price of eternal vigilance? -
No reliable test for genetically modified foods
Opinion -“No one should pretend that food labeling claiming a product is GM-free can be reliable, since the current variation in results between laboratory tests on GM foods is too wide,” said Dr. -
As Teachers, We Believe …
Opinion -All of the educators on the Teachers' Advisory Board of the Children's Scholarship Fund signed on to the following Statement of Principles: Children are the reason for a system of education, and that system's needs must never take precedence over -
Creating Partnerships
Opinion -"We have lost our focus on our core business of educating children," and one way to get that focus back is to outsource things we don't do well, maintains James Williams, former superintendent of the public school system in Dayton, Ohio. -
Vouchers Improve Academic Outcomes
Opinion -Since supporters of parental choice in education hold the moral high ground in the education reform debate, opponents have consistently attempted to shift the debate to secondary issues, such as cost and whether choice produces better outcomes. -
Shooting the Messenger
Opinion -When Judge Kenneth Starr agreed to become Special Prosecutor, he little suspected that his own professional integrity would be targeted for destruction in order to discredit the findings of his investigation of Bill and Hillary Clinton in the -
Magnet Schools Take Best Students
Opinion -While public school advocates demand that voucher schools take all students who apply so they cannot "skim the cream," the same advocates of equal opportunity do not make the same demands on public magnet schools, which have highly selective enrollment -
Keyes Would Abolish Dept. of Education
Opinion -In a January 11 speech to the Professional Educators of Iowa, a group of teachers and school administrators who oppose mandatory teacher membership in unions, Republican Presidential candidate Alan Keyes called for the abolition of the 21-year-old U.S. -
Who Picked Gore?
Opinion -A recent nationwide survey of teachers by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution revealed Texas Governor George W. Bush as their first choice for the next President of the United States, with almost as many undecided. -
TesseracT Assures Parents: Schools Will Stay Open
Opinion -With its stock delisted from Nasdaq, two of its top officers resigned, one-quarter of its central office staff laid off, and three of its schools outside of Arizona closed, the TesseracT Group, Inc. -
Administrators Wrong on Choice
Opinion -Parents who took advantage of Wisconsin's public school choice program were not driven by convenience, but were seeking a better education for their children, according to a new study from Milwaukee's Public Policy Forum, a private, nonprofit public
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