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Courts, Lawmakers Question Agency Deference
Opinion -A June 20, 2016, decision issued by the U.S. -
ACLU Appeals Nevada Judge’s Ruling Upholding ESA
Opinion -The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is appealing a Las Vegas judge’s ruling determining the state’s education savings accounts (ESA) program to be constitutional. -
Georgia District: No Education Degree Required to Teach
Opinion -To fill 450 open teaching positions for the 2016–17 school year, the Savannah-Chatham County Public School System (SCCPSS) in Georgia has expanded eligibility to applicants who do not have an education degree. -
Consumers Lose, Regulators Win in Federal Court’s Net-Neutrality Ruling
Opinion -A months-long court battle challenging the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) authority to rewrite U.S. law has been brought to an end by federal judges. Unfortunately for consumers, the government courts sided with government lawyers. -
Louisiana Supreme Court Bars Local Fracking Bans
Opinion -Ending a two-year tug-of-war between St. -
There Is No Good Time for a Carbon Tax
Opinion -June 10, 2016, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution sponsored by Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) saying a carbon tax would harm the economy and should not be enacted. -
Republican Party Platform Promotes Pro-growth Energy Policies
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #219The Republican Party platform embraces climate and energy realism. -
Pokemon Go Re-Reveals The Left’s Anti-Free Market, Pro-Government Fetish
Opinion -Congratulations to Google on Pokemon Go. Google’s parent company Alphabet incubated and spun out this latest highly successful data-collection-device - for sale to advertisers everywhere.Pokemon Go is a phenomenon. -
California Charter School Advocates Spend Millions on Primary Candidates
Opinion -Groups supporting charter schools were responsible for nearly one-third of the record $27.9 million of independent expenditures spent on California’s primary races this year. -
North Carolina Windfarms Receiving Blowback
Opinion -North Carolina, home to three military airbases, is emerging as a major battleground in the ongoing war over wind farms. -
Add Intellectual Property Protection To The List Of Rights The Government Is Eviscerating
Opinion -The Constitution is an extraordinary document. Life for most humans for most of human history has been poor, nasty, brutish and short. The Constitution acknowledged this past (and present) - and transformed our future. -
San Antonio Housing Prices Rise As City Plays The ‘Market’
Opinion -Free-market advocates say San Antonio’s “market rent” program is boosting consumer costs and amounts to a “subsidy for the rich. -
GOP VP Candidate Mike Pence Praises The Heartland Institute
Opinion -“The Heartland Institute is the very picture of American innovation.” — Mike Pence -
More Mixed Voucher Results in Ohio
Opinion -School Choice Weekly #145 -
Pennsylvania Bill Would End Union Leave for Teachers
Opinion -The Pennsylvania General Assembly is considering a bill that would prevent public school districts from enacting policies that allow for “ghost teachers,” individuals who accrue seniority and receive monetary compensation and benefits, including -
Free-Market Principles Should Guide Road-Funding Solutions
Opinion -As Americans hit the road during summer driving season, one thing that’s probably not on their minds is how the maintenance of those roads gets funded. -
Heartland Institute Policy Brief: States Have a Duty to Defend Against Federal Excess
Opinion -Heartland Institute Policy Brief: States Have a Duty to Defend Against Federal ExcessThe Framers of the U.S. Constitution included a failsafe to stop federal overreach that threatens the sovereignty of the states and the liberty of the people. -
Obama Administration Raises Royalties on Fossil Fuels from Public Lands
Opinion -With little fanfare, on June 30 the Obama administration overhauled how it calculates royalties for fossil fuel extraction on federal land closing what it referred to as a "loophole. -
Making American Medicine Great Again
Opinion -The Republicans are at it again: trying to tweak a bad idea, make it “bipartisan,” and set a flawed system more firmly in concrete. What we really need is a Republican reform – one that can restore the republic, along with medicine. -
Pennsylvania Tweaks Government Alcohol Sales Restrictions
Opinion -Pennsylvania Gov. -
Let’s Get Smart About Classroom Technology
Opinion -Online retail giant Amazon established itself more firmly in the education technology market this week by introducing Amazon Inspire, an online resource that will offer teachers and students free instructional materials. -
BLM Plan Would Permit Thousands of New Oil and Gas Wells in Utah
Opinion -If the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has its way, nearly 6,000 new oil and gas wells will be drilled in on federal, state and private lands in an area of Utah where production is already common. -
Michigan Moves Two Bills to Replace Common Core
Opinion -Two bills that would repeal and replace Common Core State Standards in Michigan are progressing through the two chambers of the state’s legislature. Senate Bill 826, sponsored by state Sen. -
The ACLU is Anti-Patient and Anti-Student
Opinion -In April 2015, Nevada implemented the nation’s first universal education savings account (ESA) program, which is designed to allow parents to use some or all of the funding that would go toward their child’s traditional public education on things such as
