Opinion
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Google’s ‘Street View’: An Internet Peeping Tom?
Opinion -Google's mapping service this spring introduced a feature called "Street View," offering detailed photos of addresses in Denver, Las Vegas, Miami, New York, and San Francisco. -
Vouchers Subsidize Parents, Not Schools
Opinion -I live in a white-bread, middle-income, predominantly Mormon suburb of Salt Lake City. One of my neighbors is another Mormon Stepford-clone like me. We are the same socioeconomic creature. -
New Aerosol Study Refutes Global Warming Theory
Opinion -Particles of soot and other light-absorbing aerosols have a warming rather than cooling effect on temperatures, researchers have learned. -
Record Tax Cut Will Save Utah Taxpayers $220 Million
Opinion -Utah lawmakers have cut personal income taxes more than $100 million, including a drop in the top tax rate from 6.98 to 5 percent, the centerpiece of nearly $220 million in tax cuts to take effect in fiscal year 2009. -
New Hampshire to Encourage E-Prescriptions
Opinion -If New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch (D) and the New Hampshire Citizens Health Initiative have their way, all health care providers statewide will be able to prescribe medication electronically, or use e-prescribing, by 2008. -
Wireless Won’t Make Philly Business-Friendly
Opinion -Is Philadelphia a model for Phoenix? Arizona Republic columnist Jon Talton has praised that city’s government for its plan to implement high-speed wireless Internet for residents. -
Heartland Experts React to Eminent Domain Ruling
Opinion -Because of the significance of the Supreme Court's ruling in Kelo v. New London, several representatives of The Heartland Institute issued statements presenting their views. Excerpts follow. Their full statements are available at http://heartland.org. -
Indiana Governor Proposes Tax Hike on $100,000-Plus Earners
Opinion -Barely one week into his first term as Indiana's governor, Mitch Daniels--the state's first Republican governor in 16 years and former budget director for President George W. -
Study Predicts Rapid Growth in Plastics Recycling
Opinion -The demand for recycled plastics will increase to 2.75 billion pounds by the year 2000 from 1.75 billion pounds in 1995, according to a new study by The Freedonia Group, an Ohio-based market research firm. -
Private Conservation Spotlight: The Roney Land and Cattle Company, Inc.
Opinion -The Vina Plains constitute one of the most unique landscapes in California's Sacramento Valley. Covering some 150 square miles northeast of Chico, the land has an austere, yet compelling, beauty. -
Getting it Wrong: Prophets of Environmental Doom Are at it Again
Opinion -It was only 20 years ago that many environmentalists and energy gurus were predicting a bleak future for the world at the end of this century. -
Say What?
Opinion -While fossil fuels appeared in short supply during the “energy crisis” of two decades ago, studies and reports about energy and energy technology were abundant. In turn, those reports were rife with predictions about the world’s energy future. -
Repealing the Laws of Mathematics
Opinion -A teacher union in North Carolina repealed the laws of mathematics with a simple majority vote, according to a recent report from Mike Antonucci. -
Ohio School Funding Recipe
Opinion -In its May 11 school funding opinion, the Ohio Supreme Court recognized the need to define several words at the core of the ruling. -
Deja Vu: The Case for School Choice
Opinion -After 12 years, inner-city schools still fail to educate "American schools are in trouble, and inner-city students suffer the most. -
Edison Reports Extraordinary Test Score Gains
Opinion -On June 28--the same day the local school board voted not to revoke the Edison charter school in San Francisco--Edison Schools, Inc. announced extraordinary gains on recent standardized tests at a number of its schools across the nation. -
Scully, Thompson Wrestle with Medicare Payments
Opinion -Thomas Scully, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), told members of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health the Bush administration will help Congress revise the formula used to set reimbursement rates for -
More Catholic Schools to Close
Opinion -As part of Cardinal Edward M. Egan's efforts to control spending, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York in February announced the closing of John A. Coleman High School in Hurley, the first school the archdiocese had closed since 1994. -
Appeals Court Rules Exxon Valdez Award Was Excessive
Opinion -A federal appeals court has thrown out a $5.3 billion punitive damages award against Exxon Mobil Corporation for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, concluding the award was excessive. -
Is Maryland Following in TennCare’s Wake?
Opinion -Soaring administrative costs, rich benefits, ineligible enrollees, general health care inflation, and underfunding have combined to create a $150 million pool of red ink around HealthChoice, Maryland's Medicaid program. -
Parents are the best guarantee
Opinion -The "accountability" demand by school voucher foes ought to be called what it really is: a demand for government regulation of private schools. -
Court Got It Right
Opinion -The decision by the Appeals Court of Maryland to allow Allstate to stop writing policies along the Atlantic Coast, while unpopular, was done for the right reason ("Court Upholds Hurricane Insurance Decision", Jan. 27). -
The Fed’s Ticking Inflation Bomb
Opinion -Larry Kudlow, as usual, said it best. Writing in Investor's Business Daily on September 14, he said:About 30 years ago, Paul Volcker launched a monumental monetary effort to bring down inflation. -
Yes, Reggie, This Is What Global Warming Looks Like
Opinion -Every few months or so, global warming alarmists revise their talking points and march like lemmings off a cliff with a new media catch phrase. The Official Global Warming Catch Phrase of Summer 2012 is “This is what global warming looks like.
