Opinion
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PRESS RELEASE: Free-Market Scholar and Author Edward Hudgins joins The Heartland Institute
Opinion -Press Release -‘We’re thrilled to bring on board Ed Hudgins, a researcher and writer known throughout the freedom movement as an original thinker, a talented editor, and someone with an encyclopedic knowledge of public policy.’ – Joseph Bast -
Fewer Regulations in Washington, DC Is a Good Starting Place for Reform
Opinion -Editorial -By inserting itself into the operations of businesses large and small, government makes itself a factor business owners have to consider when making virtually all their decisions. -
North Dakota Enacts Online Sales Tax as It Awaits Supreme Court Ruling
Opinion -budget-tax-news -North Dakota shoppers will be subject to a new online sales tax if the U.S. Supreme Court changes a longstanding precedent protecting businesses from taxes in states in which they are not located. -
Another Day, Another DC Crony Lobbying For Continued Protectionism
Opinion -Editorial -It’s a day with a “Y” in it, which means in many places throughout $4-trillion-per-year Washington, D.C., there are recipients of massive cronyism – looking to keep their gravy trains a-rolling. -
California Imposes Big Gas Tax Hike
Opinion -Californians will pay more at the fuel pump this fall, after Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed a gasoline tax hike into law in late April to fund new road construction. -
California Cities Consider New Wave of Smoking Bans
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Following the implementation of a ban on tobacco and e-cigarette use in Novato, California in January, lawmakers in neighboring cities are considering similar bans on tobacco and e-cigarette use in public and private spaces. -
HBO’s John Oliver Needs a ‘Net Neutrality’ Reality Check
Opinion -Editorial -John Oliver won't have the same effect he had in 2014. -
Court Date Imminent for Baltimore Food-Truck Lawsuit
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh announced the creation of 10 new “food truck zones” where such operations will be allowed. -
Claims of Climate-Caused Human Health Problems Questioned
Opinion -environment-climate-news -"Junk science" is behind many of the claims linking current levels of air pollution and climate change to human health problems. -
Heartland Weekly: Escaping the Paris Climate Agreement
Opinion -News -As a candidate for president, Donald Trump said he would withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement and called it a bad deal for America. -
Reaccommodated Passengers and Captured Regulators
Opinion -Editorial -With the recent explosive events taking place aboard airlines, we as consumers can take appropriate actions rather than relying on government restrictions. -
Privatize the War in Afghanistan?
Opinion -Editorial -Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater, has made some waves concerning Afghanistan. -
The Net Neutrality Debate in a Phrase: Net Neutrality Good, Title II Bad
Opinion -Editorial -Net neutrality, once a concept only discussed in arcane telecommunications legal policy settings has become a quite popular topic -
Promote Health by Not Defending the E-Cigarette Ban
Opinion -Editorial -The Trump administration should no longer defend FDA’s indefensible vaping ban. -
Getting to the Near Future, and Beyond
Opinion -Editorial -The promise of the world of tomorrow is just an empty promise long held out as being made good. -
States’ Role in the Trump-era Energy Revolution
Opinion -Editorial -Throughout the first 100 days of the Trump administration, policymakers in energy-producing states have seen many positive improvements emerging out of Washington, D.C. -
House Democrats Urge Committee Chairs to Stall Dodd-Frank Repeal
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Democratic Party members of the U.S. House of Representatives are urging committee chairmen to stall the progress of House Resolution 10, the Financial CHOICE Act, after the House Financial Services Committee voted in April to allow the bill to proceed. -
Free Markets Benefit the Environment, Conference Panelists Report
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Speakers on The Heartland Institute’s 12th International Conference on Climate Change panel “Environmental Economics,” said free markets protect the environment better than big government. -
Cleveland Stadium Deal Dunks on Taxpayers
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Taxpayers in Cleveland, Ohio will be paying for renovations to Quicken Loans Arena—the home of the Cleveland Cavaliers, a National Basketball Association team—thanks to city lawmakers’ approval in April of a financing deal for the team's owners. -
Kill the Paris Treaty and Rip out its Roots
Opinion -Editorial -The Clexit Coalition today called on President Trump to keep his election promise to withdraw from the Paris Climate Treaty and stop US payments to all UN global warming programs. -
Pennsylvania Considers Swapping State’s Property Tax for Sales Taxes
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Pennsylvania lawmakers recently debated a bill proposing fundamental changes to how government schools are funded. -
U.S.-Canada Trade Relations Deteriorate with New Lumber Tariffs
Opinion -budget-tax-news -U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross called rumored retaliatory tariffs and trade bans by Canadian lawmakers “inappropriate,” as trade conflicts between the two governments began to heat up in May. -
Tennessee Auditors Review State Park Privatization Deal
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Auditors for the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury are reviewing a contract between the state government and a private company interested in operating the state’s most-visited park, Falls Creek State Park. -
Comedians Find Intellectual Property Theft No Joking Matter
Opinion -Editorial -For the Left, joke theft is no laughing matter.
