Opinion
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Letter to the Editor: Alaska Cruise Tax Should be Lowered
Opinion -Gov. Sean Parnell is right to call for a reduction in Alaska's steep $46-per-head tax on cruise passengers because of the harm it has done to the state's tourism industry (March 21, "Parnell wants cruise ship head tax reduced"). -
Letter to the Editor: Bad Tax Policy
Opinion -Creating exemptions, raising sales tax rates and discriminating against certain products with higher taxes are all examples of bad tax policy. By proposing such tax increases, state Sen. -
Consumer Power Report #213
Opinion -Health reform came to its ultimate, final, really big, humongous, historic, eye-popping, earth-shattering, sooper-dooper, conclusion this weekend. All to the music of a deal-making, posturing, arm-twisting, poll-ignoring band of crass politicians. -
Letter to the Editor: Obesity Tax Would Bloat Fiscal Woes
Opinion -According to your March 16 story, "Soda tax seems to be falling flat," the proposal to levy a soda tax in New York is all but dead ... for now. -
Senate Rejects Bid to Restore DC Scholarship Program Funding
Opinion -Despite strong bipartisan support, the Senate last week defeated an amendment by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), to reauthorize and expand the District of Columbia’s Opportunity Scholarship Program. -
New Jersey Bill would Prevent Excessive Regulation
Opinion -New Jersey Assemblyman John Burzichelli (D-Gloucester) has introduced a bill that would prohibit state agencies from adopting new rules and regulations more stringent than federal standards without legislative permission. -
Will Lawmakers Dare Extend the Health Care Template? Will We Dare Resist?
Opinion -In Sunday’s late-night vote, our federal government gave itself the power to force Americans to buy something produced by private, profit-making companies: health insurance.Could this be the template to address other problems? -
Florida Can’t Afford Insurance Tax Plan
Opinion -Buried on Page 161 of the Obama administration's 2011 budget is the obscurely labeled tax proposal entitled "deduction disallowance for excess non-taxed reinsurance premiums paid to affiliates. -
Good Idea But Costly Outcome
Opinion -President Obama has larded $50 million into his latest iteration of a health care bill, for grants to the states so they can "study" innovative ways of controlling medical malpractice costs. Please spare us. -
Utah Legislature Rejects National Monument Designations
Opinion -The Utah House and Senate have passed resolutions opposing the federal government designating any new national monuments in the state without the state’s consent. -
Online Education Efforts Grow Amid Regulation Fears
Opinion -Advocates of online education are praising a new national education technology initiative while touting the tremendous capacity of virtual schools to transform the K-12 system. -
Obama Creates Fiscal Commission, Taxpayer Advocates Advance Alternatives
Opinion -Taxpayer advocates are proposing alternatives to President Barack Obama’s executive order establishing the so-called National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, a panel to recommend fast-tracked legislation making wholesale changes to -
2010 April InfoTech & Telecom News (full text PDF)
Opinion -The April issue of InfoTech & Telecom News reports on Google’s relationship with China, which went sour January 12 when Google traced to Chinese government operatives a spate of cyberattacks and clandestine Web surveillance targeting the search -
Dems, Industry Back Away from Net Neutrality
Opinion -The resignation of a key figure in the Obama administration’s technology policy team may signal the White House is backing away from its previous strong stance that the Federal Communications Commission should enforce strict net neutrality -
Ralph Conner, R.I.P.
Opinion -Click here to play slideshowClick here for articles written by Ralph ConnerA memorial service was held Tuesday, April 20 at Chicago Temple First United, 77 West Washington Street, Chicago. -
EPA Prepares to Address ‘Ocean Acidification’
Opinion -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced it will address so-called ocean acidification, making a deal with the activist Center for Biological Diversity to produce guidance on the topic by November 15. -
Heartland Institute Comment on National Broadband Plan
Opinion -James G. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #9-6
Opinion -Baby Talk Remember the Superbowl ad for E-Trade, in which a two-timing, macho, wolfman boy baby lies to his baby girlfriend? “Sorry about last night,” he says. -
Study: ‘Private Public’ Schools Exclude Poor, Minorities
Opinion -Nearly 3,000 public schools nationwide exclude low-income and minority students, a study by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute has found. -
Six States Plan $75 million Shot at School Turnarounds
Opinion -Six states are betting $75 million and three years of aggressive intervention can accomplish what No Child Left Behind and decades of reform efforts could not: Turn around their persistently failing schools. -
Charter School Co-Location Creating Tensions in NYC
Opinion -The high costs of building space in New York City fall hard on new charter schools, which have limited funds to pay rent. -
Report: Government Should Offer Range of School Choices
Opinion -A new report from a prominent think tank argues against favoring voucher programs and suggests concentrating on other options. -
Connecticut Misses First Cut in Race to the Top
Opinion -The Connecticut Department of Education and several Nutmeg State school districts failed to qualify for federal Race to the Top funding in the just-completed first round. -
Colorado Considers New Restrictions on Charter Schools
Opinion -The Colorado legislature is debating a trio of bills to tighten oversight of the Rocky Mountain State’s charter schools, while 38,000 children wait for a desk to open at one of the state’s 160 charters.