Opinion
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‘Grinch’ Provides Sound Guide to Improving Nation’s Schools
Opinion -Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America’s Schools Back to Reality by Charles Murray New York: Crown Forum, 2008 219 pages, hardcover, ISBN 9780307405388, $24. -
Hacking Vulnerability Revealed in California Toll Pay System
Opinion -Drivers using the automated FasTrak toll system on roads and bridges in California’s Bay Area could be vulnerable to identity theft and fraud, according to Nate Lawson of Root Labs, a computer security firm that exposed FasTrak’s security -
Kentucky Governor Seeks to Expand KCHIP Enrollment
Opinion -Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear (D) has implemented sweeping changes to the way marketing and enrollment are conducted for the Kentucky Children’s Health Program (KCHIP). -
Lofgren Seeks Further Regulation of Tech Sector
Opinion -Influential congresswoman Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) says the next president should push for tech-savvy appointments on the Securities and Exchange Commission to regulate the market more strictly. -
Malware Attacks Growing, Most Are Undetected
Opinion -More than half of all malware threats on the Internet go undetected, according to a report from Cyveillance, a Web security firm based in Arlington, Virginia. -
Muni Wi-Fi Fails in Sacramento
Opinion -Sacramento, California has joined the growing list of municipalities that have failed at attempts to provide free wireless Internet service across a city. -
Net Neutrality Push Would Hurt Consumers and Small Businesses
Opinion -Cable giant Comcast is at the center of a very important controversy for small businesses across the nation. In the summer of 2007 it became clear the carrier was putting restrictions on how much information selected customers could transmit. -
New York City Mayor Quickly Retracts Impractical Windmills-on-Bridges Plan
Opinion -A day after attracting extensive positive press coverage and fanfare for announcing plans to place windmills atop bridges and buildings throughout the nation’s largest city, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) conceded the plan is unrealistic. -
Number of Uninsured Fell by Nearly Two Million in 2007
Opinion -The number of uninsured U.S. residents dropped by almost two million people in 2007, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In 2006, 47 million people, or 15. -
Presidential Candidates Offer Differing Plans: More Money vs. Targeted Spending
Opinion -There are some essential differences between presidential candidates Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on education policy. -
Q and A: Overstock.com Founder Patrick Byrne
Opinion -This summer, Patrick Byrne, chairman and CEO of Overstock.com, Inc., was elected co-chairman of the board of the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, an advocacy group based in Indianapolis. -
Quick Harvesting of Infant Hearts Sparks Debate over Ethics, Policy
Opinion -When and how organ donors are declared dead is the subject of debate after the disclosure of three heart transplants from infant donors who had not been declared brain-dead before the hearts were removed. -
Rising Gas Prices a Problem for Schools, Congressional Report Finds
Opinion -As students headed back to school this fall, schools nationwide faced a new challenge: high gas prices. A new Congressional report finds the price hikes are having an impact on public schools around the country. -
Safe Search Engines Offer Peace of Mind
Opinion -In another example of the market providing parents with safe-search alternatives for their children, the recent redesign of AskKids. -
Surveillance Raises Eyebrows in Reading, Pa.
Opinion -Reading, Pennsylvania is the latest city to jump on the video surveillance bandwagon. -
Taxpayers on Hook for Portland Wi-Fi
Opinion -Taxpayers in Portland, Oregon will have to pay as much as $60,000 to dismantle the infrastructure of a failed municipal wi-fi Internet service—on top of $250,000 in public funds for a now-dead project city leaders touted as “free. -
Teachers Can Get Good Benefits without Paying Union Member Dues
Opinion -The Association of American Educators, along with the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, kicked off a back-to-school campaign this fall to inform teachers and the public about the many organizations offering them insurance and other -
Wiretapping Lawsuit Is Announced
Opinion -Attorneys for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) say they will forge ahead with a class-action lawsuit against AT&T and more than 30 other telecommunications companies they allege cooperated illegally with a U.S. government wiretapping program. -
Wyoming Citizens Reap Bonanza from Energy Development
Opinion -While consumers struggle with the high price of gasoline and worry about rising home heating costs, Wyoming citizens are reaping the benefits of oil and natural gas production. In an August 5 auction, the federal Bureau of Land Management raised $14. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #7-19
Opinion -Running Roughshod Over Budget A Canadian prison inmate serving time for murdering four people in Minnesota and Canada has been awarded $6,000 in damages because prison officials failed to buy him special running shoes costing $125.00. -
Consumer Power Report #150
Opinion -We are providing a special discounted rate for CHCC members to attend the Third Annual Awards Banquet. Originally we were going to charge $180, but with all the turmoil out there we decided to cut the price in half to $90. -
Consumer Power Report #149
Opinion -This endless campaign is finally coming to a close. I've never been good at predicting elections, so I won't embarrass myself here. I'll just be glad to see the end of all the mindless political operatives saying, "My guy can do no wrong. -
Flyers’ Ehrenreich Gets Rich, Taxpayers Get Soaked
Opinion -Since 1999, Schaumburg taxpayers have been forced to give nearly $20 million to build a stadium and assist the operation of the Schaumburg Flyers Professional Baseball corporation. -
Charter Schools No Passing Fad
Opinion -It can be a good thing when public authorities turn their back on fads and fashions in education. Examples of everything from invented spelling to fuzzy math come to mind.
