Opinion
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Feds Play Down Carbon Cap-and-Trade
Opinion -Recent statements and actions of Obama administration officials have some observers wondering whether the president may be backing away from campaign promises to impose a cap-and-trade system to control greenhouse gases. -
Chicago Olympics Bid Could Cost Taxpayers
Opinion -The City of Chicago’s efforts to land the 2016 Summer Olympics could leave taxpayers across Illinois on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars, even though Mayor Richard M. -
University’s Stadium Plea Renews Funding Debate
Opinion -The University of Washington’s quest to receive public funding for renovation of its Husky Stadium has rekindled the debate over taxpayer financing of sports facilities. -
Government Is the One Price that’s Still Rising
Opinion -On my most recent visit to the filling station, I paid about $2 less per gallon for gasoline than I was paying last summer. -
Unions Fail to Provide Financial Transparency
Opinion -After a series of reforms under the Bush administration increased financial transparency of labor union activities, the new administration appears to be scaling back the effort. -
Web Site Allows Public Input on Mayors’ Stimulus Wish List
Opinion -Late last year, as the economic stimulus package began to take shape, some in Congress fretted there were not enough government projects on which to spend the hundreds of billions of dollars they were preparing to appropriate.The U.S. -
Highway Reform Bill Takes Aim at High Labor Costs
Opinion -Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) has introduced H.R. 687, the Highway Trust Fund Reform Act of 2009, which may reinvigorate discussion of two of the most costly aspects of federal transportation funding. -
New York Governor Unveils Beverage Tax
Opinion -Among scores of tax and fee hikes proposed by New York Gov. David A. Paterson (D) is one he says will fight obesity: a tax on sugared soft drinks. -
Congress May Mandate Video Game Warning Labels
Opinion -A California Democrat and a Virginia Republican are pushing a bill in Congress to mandate warning labels on violent video games. -
Court Won’t Hear Child Online Protection Act Case
Opinion -The federal Child Online Protection Act appears to be officially off the books after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to overturn a lower court’s ruling that the law is unconstitutional. -
Private Firm Solves U.S. DTV Coupon Woes
Opinion -The transition to digital broadcast television has been delayed until June, causing confusion because some broadcasters already switched as scheduled on February 17. -
N.Y. Congressman’s Phone Camera Bill Draws Fire
Opinion -The Camera Phone Predator Alert Act, which would force mobile phone manufacturers to make all their phones emit a “beep” noise whenever someone uses one to take a picture, has attracted the attention of few co-sponsors ... -
Comcast VoIP Actions Draw New FCC Scrutiny
Opinion -The Federal Communications Commission, which has sanctioned Comcast for impeding peer-to-peer traffic on its servers, has sent a letter to the cable and Internet service company demanding an explanation why it appears to favor its own digital telephone -
FCC Commissioner Warns Against ‘Back-Door’ Fairness Doctrine
Opinion -Robert McDowell, a Republican appointee to the Federal Communications Commission, fears the new administration and a Democratic Congress may try to revive the so-called Fairness Doctrine without the public realizing it. -
Do Not Call List Violators Slapped with Big Fines
Opinion -The Federal Trade Commission is showing little tolerance for companies that violate the Do Not Call law Congress passed to stop annoying phone solicitations. -
DTV Switch Delay Causes Confusion
Opinion -Congress and President Barack Obama have caused confusion by delaying the switch to a universal digital television signal, and the extra $650 million for more converter box vouchers is a waste of public funds, experts say. -
National Safety Council Seeks Ban on Calling While Driving
Opinion -The National Safety Council is calling for a nationwide ban on cell phone use while driving, claiming 6 percent of all automobile crashes are due to cell phone use, costing Americans $43 billion a year. -
Broadband Stimulus Spending ‘Unnecessary and Wasteful’
Opinion -The stimulus package President Barack Obama signed into law in February includes a $7.2 billion expenditure intended to increase broadband access across the United States. -
San Francisco-Area Trains Get Fee-Based Wi-Fi
Opinion -A pilot project testing high-speed Internet access on portions of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system is expanding systemwide, allowing public transit riders in the San Francisco area to surf the Web, send e-mail, and videoconference when riding the rails -
Sexting Could Land Some Teens in Jail
Opinion -Children have played the game of “show me yours and I’ll show you mine” for ages, but today the game has gone digital, with teens using their cell phones to text provocative pictures of their bodies to one another. -
Palin Energy Plan Receives High Praise
Opinion -Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) has announced an ambitious plan to produce half of the state’s electricity from renewable sources by 2025. -
Global Warming Skeptics Gather in NYC
Opinion -The world’s largest-ever gathering of global warming skeptics was scheduled to assemble in New York City in March to confront the issue, “Global warming: Was it ever really a crisis? -
Study: Tax Code Punishes Efficient Energy Sources
Opinion -The U.S. tax code is heavily weighted in favor of renewable power sources over conventional sources such as coal and oil, Tufts University economics professor Gilbert Metcalf reports in a new study released by the Manhattan Institute. -
Global Cooling Sends Gulls South
Opinion -Bird enthusiasts are reporting ivory gulls, which usually make their home in the high Arctic, are being seen for the first time in decades in the United States.
