Opinion
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Legislators Refuse to Cut Spending
Opinion -The strain due to the recession has left Hawaii scrambling to overcome its budget shortfalls ("Taxing Bills Gain Momentum," Star-Bulletin, April 7). -
International Flavor in May Climate Conference
Opinion -Mirroring the worldwide forum where the debate over climate change takes place, the fourth International Conference on Climate Change May 16-18 in Chicago will feature more than 27 foreign experts from a dozen nations. -
Analysis: FCC Should Not Grab ‘Title II’ Authority over Internet
Opinion -In 1996, Congress passed the landmark Telecommunications Act. -
Reverend Senator Presses for School Reform in Illinois
Opinion -Chicago is a company town where the main business is government. A key subsidiary of The Company is the Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the city’s largest local employer. Like most big cities, Chicago dominates its state. -
States Resist Obama Plan for Tying Federal Money to National Standards
Opinion -Forty-eight states signed on to the Common Core State Standards Initiative, an effort led by state governors and education officials to craft a uniform set of voluntary national standards for reading and mathematics. -
Senators Propose Broadband Speed Disclosure Rules
Opinion -According to the Federal Communications Commission, the broadband speed consumers experience lags behind what’s promised by their Internet service providers by as much 80 percent. -
MIT Professor’s Climate Change Op-Ed Proven False
Opinion -MIT professor Kerry Emanuel’s February 15 op-ed in the Boston Globe, “Climate Changes Are Proven Fact,” has many inaccuracies, and in my view it is not a positive contribution to the global warming debate. -
FCC’s National Broadband Plan Includes New Taxes
Opinion -The Federal Communication Commission’s “National Broadband Plan” includes several proposals to raise taxes on commerce on the Internet—a move that would require congressional action and could harm innovation, investment, and the -
Federal Court: FCC Can’t Enforce Net Neutrality Rules
Opinion -A federal appeals court struck a blow against the desire of the Federal Communications Commission to enforce net neutrality rules on the Internet, ruling the FCC must first get Congress to approve such a sweeping expansion of its regulatory power. -
Politics Outweighs Science in Global Warming Debate
Opinion -[Editor’s note: This is the fourth installment in a series by scientist/astronaut Walter Cunningham, pilot of the Apollo 7 space mission and holder of a master’s degree in physics. -
Michigan’s Gift to Texas? People
Opinion -Recent primary elections in Texas have once again highlighted that state's status as a place people are moving to rather than away from. -
Ralph Conner Memorial Set For April 20
Opinion -Ralph Conner, The Heartland Institute’s former local legislation manger, will be remembered and honored April 20 at a memorial service at the Chicago Temple in the Loop.Mr. Conner would have been 62 years old April 20. -
Congress Levies Huge Healthcare Tax on Unearned Income
Opinion -Less than a week after the party-line passage of healthcare overhaul legislation, the U.S. Congress agreed on tens of billions of dollars of new taxes on “the rich” to help pay for it. President Obama signed it into law on March 30. -
Heartland Institute Comment on Comcast v. FCC Decision
Opinion -Information technology and legal experts at the Chicago-based Heartland Institute offered the following comments on the April 6, 2010 decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Comcast v. FCC. -
Obama’s Deficit Commission Appointments Raise Concerns
Opinion -President Barack Obama's decision to establish a national deficit commission by presidential decree is coming under fire from figures across the political spectrum as a gross example of crass politicking. -
New Connecticut Online Sales Tax Spurs Amazon’s Promised Exodus
Opinion -Amazon.com is poised to cut ties with its affiliates in Connecticut, and all the jobs that go with them, because the state legislature is threatening to pull the trigger on a tax on purchases of goods over the Internet.House Bill 5481 declares Amazon. -
Drilling for Truth and Action in Obama’s Latest Proposal
Opinion -President Obama has proposed plans to open offshore drilling and exploration along the southern Atlantic coast, a portion of the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and some of the coast of Alaska. -
Renewable Power Opt-Out Proposed in Colorado
Opinion -Electricity customers will have the right to decide whether they want to purchase costly renewable power instead of power from conventional sources under a proposed ballot initiative filed with the Colorado Legislative Council. -
California Warming Law Will Cost Dearly, Nonpartisan Analysis Concludes
Opinion -California’s far-reaching plan to curb greenhouse gas emissions will carry a considerable economic cost, according to a nonpartisan report by the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office. -
Consumer Power Report #215
Opinion -I was interviewed on Martha Montelongo's radio show in California on Saturday. I apologized to her ahead of time, saying I really hate to be the Voice of Doom, but I don't see any other choice. -
China, Russia Surging Ahead in Nuclear Technology
Opinion -Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) raised an important issue last fall in a press release. He said:"Communications experts say that fear is the best way to get attention when you're trying to win an argument. -
Massachusetts’ Top Preservation Officer Opposes Cape Wind Project
Opinion -A proposed wind farm in Nantucket Sound off the coast of Massachusetts will cause “unparalleled” harm to Native American and state historic sites, according to the state’s top historic preservation officer. -
Study: Water Diversion May Not Help California Smelt
Opinion -The diversion of water from California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to protect endangered fish at the expense of Northern California farmers is scientifically justified but of questionable value, a National Academy of Sciences panel has concluded. -
2010 April Environment & Climate News (full text pdf)
Opinion -The April issue of Environment & Climate News reports Arizona will not implement carbon dioxide restrictions under the Western Climate Initiative’s regional cap-and-trade system.Also in this issue:* Idaho Gov. C.L.