Opinion
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NJ Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Employees’ Online Privacy
Opinion -The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that employees have a right to privacy when sending emails from work on their password-protected accounts, a case that is helping to clarify the definition of “reasonable expectation of privacy” on the -
Wireless Company Sues to Clarify ‘Right-of-Way’ Fees
Opinion -Scottsdale, Arizona's "wireless encroachment fees" violate the concept of free "right-of-way" in federal and state law, according to a lawsuit filed against the city by a telecommunications company.NextG Networks of California Inc. -
Obamacare Allies Embark on ‘AstroTurf’ Campaign
Opinion -On Tuesday, allies of the White House announced an unprecedented $125 million campaign to promote the health care reform bill President Barack Obama signed this spring. -
Consumer Power Report #225
Opinion -The impact of ObamaCare is already showing up in some pretty disturbing ways. A new insurance company founded by our friend Paul Kitchen in Virginia has announced it will close its doors. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #9-12
Opinion -A Queens woman is suing Citibank, claiming the bank fired her because she looked too sexy at work.The woman was a business banking officer at a Citibank branch in Manhattan. -
Property and Casualty Insurance: Where Does Your State Rank?
Opinion -Consumers in four U.S. states enjoy more attractive homeowners insurance coverage at better prices than citizens in most other states, according to a new report card released by The Heartland Institute. -
Politics Outweigh Science in Global Warming Debate
Opinion -[Editor’s note: This is the final installment in a series by scientist and NASA astronaut Walter Cunningham, pilot of the Apollo 7 space mission and holder of a master’s degree in physics. -
U.S. Sitting on Sidelines of Global Nuclear Renaissance
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Consumer Power Report #224
Opinion -Well, how quickly the mighty have fallen. -
Media Advisory: More States Drop Out of “Race to the Top”
Opinion -Tuesday was the deadline for states to submit applications for the remaining $3.75 billion in federal “Race to the Top” grants. -
Raise for D.C. teachers is budgetary suicide
Opinion -Education Secretary Arne Duncan has estimated that as many as 100,000 teachers may face layoffs in the coming year. -
Crist Errs in Vetoing Insurance Bill
Opinion -TALLAHASSEE – Analysts at the Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank, today said Gov. Charlie Crist’s veto of SB 2044 will add a big burden to the state’s taxpayers and consumers. -
Wireless Industry Makes Case Against Proposed Taxes, Regulation
Opinion -Nearly every state is facing record budget deficits, and legislators are increasingly looking to the technology sector--especially the wireless industry--for new sources of revenue. -
2010 June Health Care News (full text PDF)
Opinion -The June issue of Health Care News offers insights into several provisions of the recently passed federal health care overhaul, highlighting on page 1 the major changes America’s businesses are facing in their health insurance programs, both for -
2010 June InfoTech & Telecom News (full-text pdf)
Opinion -The June issue of InfoTech & Telecom News highlights FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s National Broadband Plan -- which he unveiled exactly one month after a federal court ruled the agency lacks the authority to regulate the Internet. -
2010 June School Reform News (full text pdf)
Opinion -The June issue of School Reform News reports on a recent Harvard University study that suggests cash incentives, if correctly employed, can spur improvement in students’ grades, test scores, literacy rates, and behavior. -
Consumer Power Report #223
Opinion -Where to begin this week? How about the overall political environment? It is beginning to look like the wheels are coming off this bus, to the point that even Democrat loyalists are getting nervous. -
Letter to the Editor: A Boon For Missouri
Opinion -Missouri would reap economy-wide benefits as well as tax revenue if the Illinois legislature successfully passes a $1 per-pack cigarette tax ("Madigan calls on Legislature to return for pension issue," May 21). -
Time to Reform Teacher Tenure in California
Opinion -“Last-hired, first-fired” is bad for schools, it’s bad for teachers, and it does a disservice to kids. -
Heartland Institute Mocks AMA’s Attack on Health Insurers
Opinion -CHICAGO (May 26, 2010) — The Heartland Institute today released its “Physician Code of Conduct Principles” listing some 40 things doctors “must do” in order to restore order and quality to the nation’s health care -
Letter to the Editor: Smokers Won’t Get Us Out of This Mess
Opinion -David Merriman, head of the University of Illinois at Chicago's Economics Department, found that 75 percent of the cigarettes smoked by Chicagoans are not bought in the city, depriving the city of an estimated $120 million in revenue per year (Sun-Times, -
Health Care Law’s Hidden Tax Provision: 1099s Could Quintuple in 2012
Opinion -An until-now unnoticed provision of the new health care overhaul law could change the way U.S. businesses—including freelance workers—prepare for tax day, causing an avalanche of additional recordkeeping and reporting. -
Florida Lawmakers Okay Privately Run State Prison
Opinion -Florida’s newest privately run state prison is scheduled to open later this November after lawmakers agreed to protect government worker’s jobs in the final days of the legislative session. -
Hawaiians Loudly—and Successfully—Object to Proposed Big Tax Hike
Opinion -A proposal that would have raised Hawaii’s General Excise Tax—the state’s distinctive form of sales tax—was stopped in the House Ways and Means Committee in May, due in large part to a loud uproar from taxpayers and business