Opinion
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Heartland Institute Education Experts See Opportunity for Choice in Kansas School Funding Ruling
Opinion -The Kansas Supreme Court last week upheld a district court ruling in Luke Gannon v. State of Kansas, requiring the state legislature to revamp the state’s education funding formula. -
Millennials Are Well-Meaning but Misguided on Energy Policy
Opinion -A recent USA Today/Rock the Vote survey of millennials shows 80 percent of millennials support transitioning to “mostly clean” or renewable energy by 2030. -
Tax Oil to Subsidize Wind?
Opinion -If you want more of something, mandate it, subsidize it and exempt it from regulations. If you want less of something, punish it with taxes and regulations. Put more bluntly, the power to tax and regulate is the power to destroy. -
Legislative Pulse: Montana State Sen. Fielder Fights for Stronger State Role on Lands and Species
Opinion -Editor’s Note: Montana state Sen. Jennifer Fielder (R-Thompson Falls) serves on the Senate Judiciary; Fish and Game; and Natural Resources Committees. She chaired Montana’s study of federal lands in 2013. Burnett: Sen. -
Seattle, Washington City Council Logs Off Taxpayer-Funded Internet Plan
Opinion -Lawmakers in Seattle, Washington rejected a proposal to create a government-owned Internet service provider (ISP) that would have competed with private-sector businesses. -
Honest School Information Crucial for School Choice
Opinion -Supporters of education reform who advocate for government-funded choice mechanisms, such as vouchers, tend to argue the problems in K–12 schools in the United States are primarily economic matters, not pedagogical. -
The Politics Behind the Anti-Fossil Fuels Campaign
Opinion -History shows Earth’s climate goes through cycles, long and short, tied to a variety of natural factors. -
Campaign 2016: Nobody Cares About Climate Change
Opinion -Frustrated that nobody seems to care about climate change, “the country’s biggest individual political donor during the 2014 election cycle,” has pledged even more in 2016. Tom Steyer spent nearly $75 million in the 2014 midterms, reports Politico. -
Missouri Judge Upholds County’s Ban on Red-Light Cameras
Opinion -A state Circuit Court judge in Missouri upheld a voter-approved ban on red-light cameras in St. Charles County, rejecting a legal challenge against the ban filed by local lawmakers in December 2014. -
Examining ‘Unacceptable’ School Choice Rhetoric
Opinion -Valerie Strauss snatched from obscurity a cranky former teacher’s blogpost denouncing NCSW and awarded it instant Internet fame by publishing a long article of her own that relied on many of the arguments offered by the blogger. -
Sen. Barack Obama on Why He Voted Against Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court
Opinion -On January 26, 2006, the junior senator from Illinois took to the floor of the United States Senate to explain why he was voting “no” to confirm Samuel Alito as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. -
‘Big Data’ Tries to Zero Out Parents in Common Core Review
Opinion -When grassroots parents discovered big-education elitists had kept them in the dark about the Common Core (CC) experiment being conducted on their children, they helped to shine a bright light on the gross deception perpetrated by some educators and -
Lawmakers Debate Post Office Entitlement Changes, Reorganization
Opinion -Members of Congress are developing a plan to shift and reorganize costs incurred by the struggling U.S. Postal Service (USPS) in an attempt to reform the quasi-government agency’s operations. In fiscal year 2015, USPS spent $5. -
San Antonio Stadium Subsidy Could Leave Taxpayers Holding the Ball
Opinion -Lawmakers in San Antonio, Texas and in surrounding Bexar County are giving the owners of the San Antonio Spurs, a privately owned National Basketball Association team, a total of $18 million in taxpayer funds to purchase Toyota Field, a local soccer -
Your Favorite Restaurant Menu Is About To Change If Obama Gets His Way
Opinion -by Julie Kelly and Jeff StierIn its endless attempt to turn the country into one giant Weight Watchers meeting, the Obama Administration tucked away a little-known provision in the health care law that authorizes the FDA to force certain businesses to -
Obama Vetoes WOTUS Disapproval
Opinion -A bipartisan effort to block the controversial Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule, which was put into place by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. -
Chicago Schools Audit Displays Need for Expanded School Choice
Opinion -The results of an audit by the Office of the Inspector General for the Chicago Board of Education released on January 1 revealed evidence of hundreds of Chicago suburban parents falsifying address and residency documentation in order to help their -
New Hampshire Lawmakers Propose Civil Asset Forfeiture Reforms
Opinion -Lawmakers in New Hampshire are proposing new legal protections for the state’s residents, requiring local and state law enforcement agencies to obtain a criminal conviction before the government can confiscate an individual’s cash or property. -
Puerto Rico Announces Plans to Default on Bond Payments
Opinion -Lawmakers in Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States in the Caribbean Sea, announced in January their plans to partially default on $1 billion in monthly bond payments owed to investors in state-owned corporations, such as the territory’s Public -
Supreme Court Blocks Obama’s Prime Climate Regulations
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #202 Legal efforts by 27 states and dozens of business, labor, consumer, and public-interest groups bore fruit when the U.S. -
Can “Bright Line” FCC Title II Discrimination Bans Be Just and Reasonable?
Opinion -Net neutrality absolutists are overreaching yet again in their push for a practical FCC ban of ISP zero rating offers under the FCC’s case-by-case “General Conduct Standard” review, by claiming violations of the “bright-line rules” in the FCC’s 2015 Open -
Heartland Institute Experts React to Passage of Internet Tax Freedom Act
Opinion -By a vote of 75–20, the United States Senate Thursday passed the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act (PITFA), a permanent ban on the ability of states to tax the Internet. -
Obama Continues to Impede Domestic Energy Production
Opinion -With less than a year left in office, President Barack Obama is upping the pressure on America’s fossil fuel industries with a slew of new regulations and tax proposals.Last month, Obama ordered a moratorium on new coal leasing on federal lands. -
Profiteers of Climate Doom: Ten Killer Questions that Expose How Wrong and Ideologically Driven They Are
Opinion -A century or so from now, based on current trends, today’s concentration of carbon dioxide in the air will have doubled. How much warming will that cause? The official prediction, 1.5-4.5 degrees Celsius (2.7-8.