Opinion
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Trump Needs His Own People Running Federal Bureaucracies
Opinion -President Donald Trump has not yet appointed many people he thinks who support his “America First” agenda to staff the hundreds of positions at various federal agencies and bureaucracies he is in charge of. -
Closing Coal Plant in Pleasant Prairie Will Increase Electricity Prices
Opinion -The premature closure of the Pleasant Prairie coal-fired power plant will drive up electricity costs for families. -
Support Grows For Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Bill
Opinion -Congressional Democrats are lining up behind legislation that would set prescription drug prices for Medicare beneficiaries. -
An Entertaining Defense of the Morality of Finance
Opinion -Review of In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance, by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins (Ayn Rand Institute, 2017), 250 pages, ISBN-13 978-0996010115, $14.93 on Amazon.com. -
Despite Mainstream Media Rhetoric, U.S. Economy is Alive and Very Well
Opinion -Democrats have established a mantra that Trump’s success in stimulating the economy should be credited to Obama. That is misleading at best. -
Barnard College to Divest from Companies Questioning Climate Change Concerns
Opinion -Barnard College announced its endowment will divest its investments in companies that express doubt global warming is a crisis or support organizations that make those arguments. -
President Signs Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
Opinion -President Donald Trump signed H.R. 1, also known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, into law after the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate approved the bill’s final version in December 2017. -
Illinois Court Upholds Chicago Food Truck Ordinance
Opinion -Illinois’ First District Appellate Court rejected a legal challenge to the city’s food-truck ordinance. -
Judge Orders Bitcoin Exchange Coinbase to Surrender Consumer Data to IRS
Opinion -The online cryptocurrency exchange company Coinbase lost a legal battle against Internal Revenue Service (IRS) efforts to gain access to users’ private data and metadata. -
ESAs Provide the Means to Make Dreams a Reality for NH Families
Opinion -Children in New Hampshire, and all across the country, deserve a chance at education. -
Utah Considers Imposing an ‘iTunes Tax’
Opinion -When Utah state lawmakers return for the 2018 legislative session, a proposal to tax downloads of digital audio and video products will be one of many changes to the state’s tax code up for consideration. -
Taxpayers Challenge Denver, Colorado Nonprofit Disclosure Law
Opinion -Working with lawyers from the Goldwater Institute, taxpayers in Denver, Colorado are challenging a new city law requiring nonprofit political organizations to identify their donors publicly. -
Schools, Like Government, Are Best in Small Packages
Opinion -The best gifts come in small packages. The same can be said of government and of schools, too. -
Amendment Convention Bill on Kentucky Legislature’s To-Do List
Opinion -A bill that would call on Congress to organize a national convention to draft an amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ready for consideration in the Kentucky Legislature. -
Alabama House Committee Considers Prohibiting Welfare Work Waivers
Opinion -The Alabama House State Government Committee is considering a bill that would prohibit the state’s Department of Human Resources from requesting exemptions from federal work requirements for able-bodied individuals receiving welfare. -
Milton Rosenberg, R.I.P.
Opinion -Milt was a good friend of The Heartland Institute, even providing a studio for him when he first began podcasting. -
Trump Calls for Private-Public Partnership for Space Missions
Opinion -President Donald Trump signed Space Policy Directive 1, ordering the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to investigate use of public-private partnerships (P3s) to advance U.S. interests in outer space. -
Mississippi Parents Cry ‘School Choice for All!’
Opinion -School Choice Weekly #205 -
Springfield, Missouri City Council Considers New Airbnb Regulations
Opinion -The Springfield, Missouri City Council is considering an ordinance targeting Airbnb and other peer-to-peer economy companies connecting tourists seeking short-term housing and hosts who provide places to stay. -
Direct Primary Care Bill Is on Florida House Agenda
Opinion -A bill that would free doctors participating in direct primary care (DPC) services from state insurance regulations is under consideration in the Florida House of Representatives. -
Oregon Sweetened-Beverage Tax Campaign Wastes Bloomberg’s Money
Opinion -A Multnomah County, Oregon organization advocating a new tax on sugar-sweetened beverages wasted almost $1 million in funding from former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, according to reporters. -
California Considers ‘Net Neutrality’ Bill
Opinion -California state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) is proposing a bill reinstating internet regulations in his state. -
How the Keystone Pipeline Spill Proves Pipelines Are Safe
Opinion -A section of the Keystone Pipeline that was completed in 2011 sprung a leak, spilling approximately 210,000 gallons of oil in South Dakota. What does it mean for safety? -
Washington, DC’s Worship of Big Data Threatens Individual Liberty
Opinion -“In Big Data, We Trust.”