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Brilliant Teachers + Good Administration + Concern Parents = The Best School You Can Get
Opinion -The State of North Carolina almost shut down Durham's predominantly African-American Healthy Start Academy last year because its demographics violated the state's requirements for racial balance. -
Reining in the Regulatory State: an Exclusive Interview with Angela Antonelli
Opinion -A contributing editor to Environment News, Angela Antonelli served as an analyst and Assistant Branch Chief in the White House Office of Management and Budget's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) from 1989 to 1993. -
Tips for Reducing Auto Emissions
Opinion -Bob Brooks, a highly respected automotive consultant and writer for Ward’s Engine and Vehicle Technology Update, proposed, in that newsletter’s May 15 issue, six common-sense measures for reducing vehicle pollution. -
Congressional Earmarks Undermine State and Local Decision-making
Opinion -Congressional efforts to micromanage state and local decision-making may have set a new record last year, when members of Congress included thousands of “earmarked” spending mandates that often preempted local priorities in determining how such federal -
Senate Votes to Restrict Access to ‘Worst-case Scenario’ Information
Opinion -In a setback for EPA and anti-industry environmental groups, the Senate has postponed for one year the electronic release of sensitive data relating to worst-case accident scenarios at thousands of chemical facilities throughout the nation. -
Giuliani Seeks Vouchers for Summer School
Opinion -New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani won't let vouchers die. -
Anti-vinyl Coalition Seeks Ban on Intravenous Medical Supplies
Opinion -If it’s bad for laboratory rats, then it must be bad for humans, the old song goes. -
Global Warming: a Boon for the U.S. Economy?
Opinion -The Impact of Climate Change on the United States Economy Robert Mendelsohn and James E. Neumann, editors Cambridge University Press, June 1999 320 pages, $59. -
ESA Sends Two Retirees to the Poorhouse
Opinion -For seven years, Viola Allen, an ailing 72-year-old widow, has been desperately trying to sell her eight-acre property in Lynnwood, Washington so she can finally have enough money to move out of her rapidly deteriorating home. -
Voucher Law Signed in Florida
Opinion -Calling it "a giant stride forward in ensuring that schools serve children and their families," Florida Governor Jeb Bush signed the nation's first statewide voucher program on June 21. -
How Florida’s Vouchers Work
Opinion -Florida's vouchers are called "opportunity scholarships" and are part of an education improvement package that rewards successful schools and gives students the option of leaving a failing school. -
‘Livable Communities’ May Be Anything but
Opinion -Vice President Al Gore says he wants to curb urban “sprawl” and improve the livability of American cities. -
Wildfire: Forest Service Mismanagement Puts Millions of Acres of Forests at Risk
Opinion -Forest Service reductions in timber sales and its practice of extinguishing small brush fires have put millions of acres of western forests and numerous towns at risk of being devoured by catastrophic wildfires. -
Bible Story Ban Prompts Lawsuit
Opinion -More than three years have elapsed since that morning on February 9, 1996, when first-grader Zachary Hood of Medford, New Jersey, stood up to read his favorite story to the rest of the class--his reward for reaching a certain degree of reading -
Cleveland Voucher Program Reauthorized
Opinion -Beating back an attempt to sabotage the program by limiting it to grades K-5, Ohio lawmakers on June 24 approved an education budget that continues to fully fund the Cleveland Scholarship Program for the next two years. -
08/1999 News Briefs
Opinion -Canadian Firm Sues U.S. over Ban on MTBE Methanex Corp. of Vancouver, British Columbia has filed a $970 million lawsuit against the United States because California has banned the gasoline additive methyl tertiary-butyl ether. -
The Greening of Amerika: Earth First! vs. Liberty
Opinion -“Environmentalism, with its ‘Earth First!’ arguments, represents a ‘Leviathan Two’ menace which may become more dangerous than old socialism,” Vaclav Klaus told a group of Heritage Foundation members in Philadelphia recently. -
Do Environmental Organizations Kill People?
Opinion -Last November, the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (USPIRG) and the National Environmental Trust released another of their reports about emissions of toxic chemicals. Predictably, they warned that chemicals threaten human health. -
Back-tracking, Arm-twisting Pervade Bonn Global Warming Meeting
Opinion -Sounding like the Sonny and Cher hit recording of the 1960s, the Kyoto Protocol beat goes on. But it's not sounding as good as it did when it was first released in 1997. -
Better Engines
Opinion -Emissions testing and oxygenated gasoline, key components of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) program to reduce auto emissions, have recently been shown to have little value in reducing automobile pollution. -
Ecoterrorism Surges
Opinion -“We are going to find your house and burn it down. We are going to kill your family,” Andy Hairston, general manager of Highland Enterprises, Inc. -
Endocrine Disrupter Scare Resurfaces
Opinion -By summer’s end, the American people could learn once and for all whether the ongoing debate over "declining" human sperm counts has merit, or is simply another environmental false alarm sounded by activists and the media before all the evidence was in. -
Panel Provides Clean Bill of Health for Vinyl Toys and Medical Devices
Opinion -Public concern has been raised recently regarding the possible health hazards of di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) and diisononyl phthalate (DINP), two chemicals used as plasticizers in flexible vinyl products. -
Parental Freedom in the States and Nation
Opinion -School Choice: A Moral Imperative Earlier this year, a forum on school choice was held in the State House chambers in Montpelier, Vermont, sponsored by the John Dewey Project on Progressive Education.
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