Opinion
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Santa Cruz, CA Taxicab Companies Call for Crackdown on Uber
Opinion -Taxicab companies in Santa Cruz, California are calling on lawmakers to enact a government crackdown on peer-to-peer economy transportation network companies (TNCs), such as Uber and Lyft. -
Unalienable ‘Right to Try’ Deserves Protection by Feds and All 50 States
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #510Every person, regardless of race, creed, or country, is born into the world with certain natural rights, including the right to live, the Second Continental Congress declared 240 years ago this July 4. -
Michigan DPCS Pilot Could Revolutionize Health Care Insurance and Save Billions
Opinion -Michigan state lawmakers approved an omnibus spending bill after removing a requirement for the state Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to implement a money-saving pilot program enrolling Medicaid recipients in direct primary care agreements. -
What Happens If the Social Costs of Carbon Goes Negative?
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #217 For Climate Change Weekly readers who aren’t skeptical of the claim humans are causing a climate catastrophe by burning fossil fuels, new studies have emerged that should temper your fears. -
College Board Excises Islam from European History Curricula
Opinion -school-choice-weekly -School Choice Weekly #142 -
Federal Judge Rebukes White House for Misleading Response to FOIA Request
Opinion -Judge Amit Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled on May 9, the Obama administration had engaged in “bad faith” in its handling of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request made by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). -
Prescriptions by Digital Eye Exam Banned in South Carolina
Opinion -Residents of South Carolina will have to visit an eye doctor in person in order to buy eyeglasses or contact lenses in the state, instead of taking advantage of new services offering online eye exams. -
Portland, ME Lawmakers Consider Privatizing Trash Collection
Opinion -Lawmakers in Portland, Maine are considering legislation that would return trash collection services to private-sector companies. -
Here’s What The New York Times Completely Missed In Its Criticism Of Fracking
Opinion -Although the May 23 New York Times article on hydraulic fracturing, “The Sand Mines That Ruin Farmland,” is an interesting read, it is by no means an accurate one. -
Kansas Schools Don’t Need More Money
Opinion -The Legislature is preparing to embroil itself in a special session after the Kansas Supreme Court threatened to close public schools over a funding dispute amounting to less than 1 percent of the state’s education budget.Gov. -
Ohio Lawmakers Approve Civil Asset Forfeiture Reforms
Opinion -The Ohio House of Representatives approved a bill to reform when and how government law enforcement agencies can seize people’s private property. -
Coming Soon: Internet At The Speed Of Government
Opinion -When government “helps” run something - that something is terrible. The bigger a hand government has in running it - the more terrible it is. If it is exclusively government-run - the terrible-ness is ingrained and inherent. -
House Takes Stand against Carbon Tax
Opinion -The idea of a carbon dioxide tax fits in seamlessly with the romantic, often quixotic, worldview of the modern environmental movement. -
House Approves Donor Privacy Reform Bill
Opinion -The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill prohibiting the federal government from collecting confidential information about private individuals’ donations to nonprofit organizations. If approved by the U.S. -
Will the War Against Parental Choice Ever End?
Opinion -No matter how many courts have rejected their pleadings, enemies of school choice appear committed to a 100-year-long judicial war in quest of some ultimate edict that will keep American students forever captive in government schools. -
Senate May Tie Block Grants to State Plans to Reduce Suicides
Opinion -A bill that would tie existing federal block grants to expansion of state suicide prevention programs, drug abuse counseling, and training to defuse potential crisis situations arising from mental illness has passed U.S. -
Department of Energy Cancels Funding for Texas Clean Energy Project
Opinion -The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has decided to cease funding the Texas Clean Energy Project (TCEP), one of six clean-coal-energy projects promised under DOE’s Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI). -
Iowa Governor Shaves Hair-Braiding Licensing Requirements
Opinion -When Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad (R) signed into law the state’s newest budget bill, he approved provisions exempting hair braiding from regulation by the state’s Board of Cosmetology Arts and Sciences. -
British Say “No” to EU Power and Plunder
Opinion -The political and financial establishments of Europe and the United States were taken by almost total surprise and sent into apparent shock when 52 percent of the voters in the United Kingdom chose for their country to leave the European Union (EU). -
Heartland Weekly: Celebrate #OurAmerica During July
Opinion -heartland-weekly -Week of June 27, 2016 -
Education Reform: One-Size-Does-Not-Fit-All
Opinion -Lately, education scholars at Washington, D.C.-based, nominally conservative think tanks have spun themselves into a tizzy about the education reform movement’s splintering into quarreling factions.Who knew such a monolithic movement existed? -
Tighter Welfare Verification Rules Proposed in North Carolina
Opinion -A North Carolina lawmaker is proposing a bill that would require the state Lottery Commission and its welfare entitlement agency to verify lottery winners aren’t also collecting government benefits, such as food stamps. -
Ohio Governor Says ‘Cheers’ to Beer Deregulation Bill
Opinion -Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) has signed a law removing government restrictions on the potency of beer sold in the state, giving beer drinkers a reason to raise a glass in celebration of free-market principles. House Bill 37, introduced by state Reps. -
Brexit’s Energy Lesson for California, et al
Opinion -“California’s largest utility and environmental groups announced a deal Tuesday [June 21] to shutter the last nuclear power plant in the state.
