Opinion
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PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Obamacare Rate Hikes
Opinion -‘Total costs for employer-provided coverage have increased by $17,000 per year since Obamacare passed in 2010, primarily due to taxes and regulations imposed by Obamacare.’ - Peter Ferrara -
Alabama Law Drives Midwives, Patients Underground
Opinion -Alabama mothers who want to give birth at home with a midwife turn to the state's black market. -
Charter Schools Are Private Corporations, National Labor Relations Board Rules
Opinion -The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled charter schools are private corporations, not public organizations, and has ordered charter school employees organizing unions to organize under private-sector rules. -
Our Private Sector Medical System Is Suffering Myriad Government Assaults…
Opinion -…Republican Chairman Fred Upton should preempt one of them. -
Emmanuel Uses Charter Children as Bargaining Chip to Placate Teachers Union
Opinion -The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), Chicago Public Schools (CPS), and Mayor Rahm Emmanuel’s administration reached a tentative agreement to avert what would have been the second teachers strike in Chicago in four years. -
Georgia Chamber of Commerce Proposes Medicaid Expansion Plans
Opinion -The Republican-controlled Georgia House will consider Medicaid expansion in 2017, and these plans proposed by Georgia's Chamber of Commerce could be front-and-center. -
Common Core: Bad for Catholics, Bad for Everybody
Opinion -A new academic study finds the Common Core State Standards undermine the premises behind Catholic education. -
Court Upholds Off-Road Vehicle Access in Florida Preserve
Opinion -Tossing out a legal challenge by six environmental groups, the 11th Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of a National Park Service plan allowing more than 130 miles of off-road vehicle trails in the Big Cypress National Preserve. -
Get Ready to Break Wind
Opinion -Expect drastic changes if Hillary Clinton gets into office for wind energy. -
Massachusetts State Agency Begins Implementing New Taxi Subsidy Law
Opinion -With Massachusetts lawmakers having passed a last-minute bill taxing Uber and other sharing-economy transportation companies to help subsidize taxicab companies, a state government agency is implementing the subsidy process. -
Maryland Lawmakers Call ‘Time Out’ on Fantasy Sports Gaming Regulations
Opinion -Maryland lawmakers are questioning proposed new restrictions on how consumers can play fantasy football and other online fantasy sports games. -
Connecticut School Funding System Ruled Unconstitutional
Opinion -A Connecticut judge ruled the state’s funding system for public schools is unconstitutional because it doesn’t provide every child an adequate education. -
EPA Captures More Landfills Under Emissions Regime with New Rules
Opinion -The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently finalized new rules that will bring greater numbers of landfills under EPA oversight for air emissions. -
Changed Conditions May Justify Term Limits
Opinion -Advocates for term limits want to amend the Constitution to add them. Their most common argument is that restricting how long an elected official may serve will curb special interests’ influence and other federal abuse. -
Boston Transit Agency Privatizes Cash Operations
Opinion -Officials overseeing a Boston, Massachusetts government-operated transportation agency voted to turn responsibility for some administrative operations over to a private business. -
Heartland Weekly – Wikipedia Is Broken, Biased, and Corrupt
Opinion -If you don’t visit The Freedom Pub, you’re missing out on some of the best news and commentary on liberty and free markets you can find. But worry not, freedom lovers! The Heartland Weekly Email is here! -
Nevada ESA Ruling Is a Win in More Ways than One
Opinion -The teachers unions’ cruel streak is helping no one. -
FCC’s Haphazard Privacy Policy Gaps Disserve Consumers
Opinion -The FCC’s proposed broadband privacy rules are haphazard and have more random and conflicting “gaps” than Swiss cheese has holes. -
Study Confirms Natural Gas Economy Has Lower Methane, Global Warming Emissions
Opinion -The prospects for significant reductions in greenhouse gases has received a major boost, as scientists report methane emissions from fossil fuels have not increased, even with a substantial increase in natural gas production. -
Oklahoma Rep. Continues Push for Education Savings Accounts
Opinion -State Rep. Jason Nelson (R-Oklahoma City) says he’s confident Oklahoma lawmakers will continue to introduce legislation for education savings accounts (ESAs) in the state legislature. -
University of Pennsylvania Rejects Fossil Fuel Divestment Pressure
Opinion -The University of Pennsylvania (UP) has joined a growing list of major universities to reject calls by environmental groups to divest fossil fuel investments from their endowments. -
The School Choice Generation Wants a Full Educational Menu
Opinion -Millennials favor all forms of school choice at a greater rate than older generations, which indicates demand for private and in-house public alternatives to government-assigned schools is bound to persist, no matter how the political winds may shift. -
Latest Excuses for Rising ACA Premiums Ring Hollow
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #522 -
Idaho Attorney General Defends Right-to-Work Law in Court
Opinion -Idaho’s chief legal officer is asking a federal judge to dismiss a labor union’s lawsuit challenging the state’s right-to-work law, citing the recent dismissal of a similar case in Wisconsin.