Opinion
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Celebrate Education Choice During National Charter Schools Week
Opinion -The first week in May is National Charter Schools Week, a time to celebrate the advancements made in the charter school movement over the past 25 years. -
Calif. Will Require Insurers to Drop Low-Performing Hospitals from Exchange Plans
Opinion -California’s health insurance exchange contracts for 2017–19 will require insurers to identify and exclude from exchange plans hospitals providing low-quality or unjustifiably expensive care. -
South Dakota Approves Tax-Credit Scholarship Program
Opinion -South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard (R-SD) signed into law a bill giving low-income families financial aid to use on educational alternatives for their children. -
Colorado Supreme Court Embraces the Rule of Law, not the Fear Mongering of the Anti-Fossil-Fuel Movement
Opinion -On Monday, May 2 the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on what the New York Times (NYT) called: “a lengthy battle for energy production. -
Heartland Weekly: Video: Nature Unbound: Bureaucracy vs. the Environment – Ryan Yonk
Opinion -Week of May 09, 2016 -
Direct Primary Care Delivers Savings for North Carolina
Opinion -North Carolina physicians, patients, and at least one public-sector employer are paying less for better health care by entering into direct primary care agreements, in line with current state law. -
California Education Scholars Call for End to Common Core
Opinion -California has joined a growing number of states now facing mounting outcry against Common Core State Standards. -
Chicago Pension Reforms Are Unconstitutional, Illinois Supreme Court Declares
Opinion -Public pension reforms enacted in Illinois in 2014 by former Gov. Pat Quinn (D) violated retired Chicago government employees’ constitutional rights, the Illinois Supreme Court has ruled. -
Facing the Realities of Renewable Energy
Opinion -The thirst for renewable energy is nearly unquenchable, but inefficiencies inherent in renewable power production and high costs relative to traditional forms of energy have long prevented widespread utilization. -
Maryland Legislature Approves Criminal Justice Reform Bill
Opinion -The Maryland Senate unanimously approved a bill that would reduce the amount of money spent on housing prisoners, by focusing correctional spending on serious and violent criminals and opting for rehabilitation over retribution. -
FDA Went Way Too Far on E-Cigarettes
Opinion -The FDA wasn't wrong to regulate e-cigarettes. It was wrong to effectively ban, by its own estimate, up to 98.5% of the e-cigarettes on the market today. -
The Uncertain Future of Stephen Colbert, the CBS ‘Superman’ Who Bleeds
Opinion -Moonves and the rest of the CBS suits had such faith in their cultural dominance that they thought what they enjoyed — leftist comedy on cable — was obviously up-scaleable. They were wrong. -
Policy Diagnosis: Doctors and Patients vs. Medicare and Medicaid
Opinion -Editor’s Note: Medicare and Medicaid spending constituted a combined 36 percent of national health expenditures in 2014, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reports. The same year, U.S. health care spending accounted for 17. -
We Don’t Need Billions to Prevent Zika
Opinion -Controlling mosquitoes and preventing diseases requires smarter policies, not more billions by: Paul Driessen and Robert Novak The Zika virus is increasingly linked to serious neurological complications for pregnant women and microcephaly in newborns: -
Ohio Board of Education Seeks Public Input for Update of State Standards
Opinion -After several failed attempts by the state legislature to rid Ohio of Common Core, the Ohio General Assembly has tasked the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) with updating Ohio’s learning standards for the first time since the state adopted Common Core -
Arizona Bill to Expand Scholarship Account Program Fails to Pass House
Opinion -An Arizona bill to expand eligibility for the state’s Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program passed the state’s Senate but failed to pass the House before the session ended. -
Facts Clear Astrophysicist Soon of Wrongdoing, Indict Journalists Covering Climate Debate
Opinion -Willie Soon, Ph.D., is an astrophysicist in the Solar, Stellar and Planetary Sciences Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. -
Virgin Islands AG Expanding Climate Witch Hunt
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #212 The attorney general of the U.S. -
Bringing Education Freedom to Native Americans
Opinion -Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) recently proposedSenate Bill 2711, titled the Native American Education Opportunity Act. -
Review of F.H. Buckley’s The Way Back: Restoring the Promise of America
Opinion -The United States has lapsed into aristocracy, the New Class — the politically connected “enemies of promise” — standing in the way of the free market reforms that could make America the home of social mobility once again. -
Vermont Considers Applying Tobacco Tax to E-Cigarettes
Opinion -Vermont legislators are considering a bill that would tax e-cigarette products as though they are tobacco, increasing excise taxes on e-cigarettes and e-cigarette fluid in the state. House Bill 879, sponsored by state Rep. -
‘Direct Primary Care’ and ‘Concierge Medicine’ Are Oceans Apart
Opinion -Hawaii lawmakers have passed legislation requesting the insurance division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to research how direct primary care and concierge medicine have penetrated the island state’s health care market. -
National Test Scores Dip Yet Again
Opinion -School Choice Weekly #136 -
Everyone Loathes the Latest Obama Power Grab – Except Google, and That’s All That Matters
Opinion -A key Barack Obama Administration legacy item is its wanton abuse of the Constitution’s separation and balance of powers.