Opinion
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School Choice Group in Colo. Launches Blog
Opinion -A new Independence Institute blog—The Good, The Bad, and The Shameful—was launched in February and is covering the Colorado public education system and school reform efforts. -
Harlem Parents Rally for More Charter Schools
Opinion -More than 5,000 people gathered in Harlem in New York City in mid-March hoping to ensure charter schools continue thriving in their neighborhood. -
Why We Should Pay High School Students to Graduate
Opinion -One of the best parts about being a legislator in Minnesota—and probably in any other state, for that matter—is having the opportunity to meet with some of the thousands of elementary and high school students who visit the Capitol every year. -
Consumer Power Report #176
Opinion -I have never seen the free-market proponents in a debate as discouraged as they are over health care. We had a conference call recently and the mood was bleak. This was compounded by the fact that there was no unity. -
Ten Ways Consumer Driven Health Care Is A Proven Success
Opinion -A revolution is underway in American health care, but you won’t read about it newspapers or see it on TV. -
2009 May Environment & Climate News: Climate Change Conference Rebuts Alarmism
Opinion -The May 2009 issue of Environment & Climate News features an extensive wrapup of the wildly successful Second International Conference on Climate Change, held in New York City March 8-10 and hosted by The Heartland Institute. -
North Carolina Charter Takes ‘Direct Route’ to K-8 Education
Opinion -When a retired engineer started a rural North Carolina charter school in 2000, he named it after the thirteenth century cleric who pioneered the modern scientific method. -
Obama Rolls Back Bush SCHIP Reforms
Opinion -President Barack Obama has reversed two of his predecessor’s policy directives that had prevented states from expanding taxpayer-funded health insurance for the poor to children in higher-income families. -
Pennsylvania Medicaid Fraud Shows System Flaws
Opinion -A survey of Pennsylvania’s Medicaid system by state Auditor General Jack Wagner has found at least $3.3 million in benefits were provided over three years to residents who do not qualify for the program. -
Congress Ponders Repeal of Online Gambling Ban
Opinion -With Congress looking for ways to collect new tax revenue during the recession, advocates of online gaming like the odds of seeing a repeal this year of the federal ban on Internet gambling. -
Law Would Increase Record-Keeping Burden on Wi-Fi Networks
Opinion -The Internet SAFETY Act, a measure introduced in Congress this year, could make anyone who operates a wi-fi network responsible for keeping records of everyone who uses it for two years. -
U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Antitrust Case Against AT&T
Opinion -The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously rejected an antitrust suit brought by a consortium of small Internet companies against AT&T. -
CFACT Taps Marc Morano to Head Project
Opinion -The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow is adding environmental policy writer and analyst Marc Morano to its staff to lead a project providing information about global warming. -
Bill Would Let Retirees Forgo Medicare
Opinion -A Tennessee Congresswoman has offered legislation to allow retirees the option of forgoing enrollment in Medicare without losing their Social Security benefits, which federal law currently prevents them from doing. -
Regulate Retail Clinics, Indiana Legislator Asks
Opinion -Indiana state Sen. Patricia Miller (R-Indianapolis) is calling for stiffer standards regulating retail clinics serving patrons in pharmacies, shopping malls, and big-box retailers such as Wal-Mart and Target. -
Congress OKs, Expands SCHIP
Opinion -President Barack Obama’s signing of legislation reauthorizing and expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program surprised no one, but it raised plenty of concerns among health policy experts and budget watchdogs. -
Acting FCC Chief Calls for Internet Regs in ‘Public Interest’
Opinion -In a speech celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Federal Communications Commission and the Communications Act, acting FCC Chairman Michael Copps declared it is time to think “more rigorously” about how the government should regulate the -
Activists Motivated by Power, EU’s Klaus Tells ICCC
Opinion -Environmental activists are less concerned about any crisis posed by global warming than they are eager to command human behavior and restrict economic activity, the president of the Czech Republic told the opening session of the second International -
Boucher Proposes to Regulate Online Ads
Opinion -A Virginia congressman is calling for the federal government to restrict the ability of Internet companies to target Web ads based on the sites users like to visit—a common practice known as “behavioral advertising.”Rep. -
California Lawmaker Proposes Jail Time for Posting Photos
Opinion -A member of the California Assembly has introduced a bill to require Web sites such as Google Maps to blur photos of schools, churches, government buildings, and hospitals. -
Chicago Prostitution Sting Leads to Craigslist Lawsuit
Opinion -Cook County, Illinois Sheriff Thomas Dart is suing Craigslist for becoming what he says is the nation’s “single largest source of prostitution. -
Climate Change Conference Rebuts Alarmism
Opinion -The growing number of global warming skeptics around the world scored a major victory during the second International Conference on Climate Change, which confronted the issue, “Global warming: Was it every really a crisis? -
Climate Conference Keynoters Rebuke Alarmists
Opinion -U.S. Congressman Tom McClintock (R-CA) and scientist Arthur Robinson, who has assembled a list of more than 31,000 U.S. -
Cox Cable Congestion Management Plan Challenged, Defended
Opinion -As Cox Communications seeks to relieve intermittent congestion on its networks by according higher priority to time-sensitive traffic while allowing minor delays in other traffic, the company’s policy has drawn the ire of self-described