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  • Obama Climate Plan Would Ignore Congress, Force Large Price Hikes

    Published October 24, 2008
    By James Taylor
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    With the United States on the precipice of a deep and prolonged economic recession, presidential candidate Sen.

  • A Modest Solution to the Financial Sector Crisis: Government Should Just Allow Us to Print Our Own Money

    Published October 24, 2008
    By Steve Stanek
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    It is a melancholy object to those who read our nation’s newspapers or listen to our news broadcasts, when they see our nation’s political and finance leaders importuning every reader and listener for an alms.

  • Smoking Ban on Campus Misguided

    Published October 22, 2008
    By John Nothdurft
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    John Nothdurft, Legislative specialist, The Heartland Institute - Chicago The recent bans on smoking across entire campuses at state-owned colleges in Pennsylvania are political correctness overkill.

  • Government Ownership of Banks: A Really Bad Idea

    Published October 20, 2008
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    The financial crisis exists mostly because of government mistakes, particularly the Federal Reserve’s easy-money policy, the corrupt system of subsidies from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and various “affordable-housing” initiatives that

  • EPA Advance Notice of Public Rulemaking (ANPR): Alert 4

    Published October 17, 2008
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    This is the latest in a series of Environment Alerts from Sandy Liddy Bourne, Heartland's vice president for policy and strategic development, about an issue that could profoundly affect virtually every aspect of American life.

  • Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #7-18

    Published October 15, 2008
    By Maureen Martin (1947 – 2013)
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    Party Poopers Children’s birthday parties are the latest target for plaintiff’s lawyers, according to a column written by--of all people--a lawyer. Cases are pending in Florida, Kansas, Ohio, England, and Sweden, the attorney wrote.

  • At Moment of Truth, Where Was Dagny Taggart?

    Published October 15, 2008
    By Joseph Bast
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    The front page of today's Wall Street Journal carries a story titled "At Moment of Truth, U.S. Forced Big Bankers to Blink." In the quarter-century I've been reading the Journal, I've never read a news story that was more disturbing.

  • Shortchanging the Charter Option

    Published October 13, 2008
    By Robert G. Holland (1940-2017)
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    Dear Editor: You draw reassurance from the two major-party Presidential candidates' agreeing on a handful of education issues, such as the need to recruit more first-rate K-12 teachers. (“Make education our nation’s edge,” Oct. 12.

  • Consumer Power Report #148

    Published October 13, 2008
    By Greg Scandlen (1947 – 2023)
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    Wow! Between the elections and the market turmoil this is a golden age for news junkies. Remember back in the old days when the biggest "crisis" on people's minds was the price of gasoline? When was that, a month ago? Seems like ancient history.

  • This is a test

    Published October 13, 2008
    By Diane Bast
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    this is a test letter to the ditor to see where this thing shows up

  • Removing the Smoke Without Breaking the Mirrors

    Published October 10, 2008
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    Governor Blagojevich does not deny his staff refused to provide the appellate court critical bookkeeping data about the registrants for his scheme to provide free medical welfare for upper-middle-income families in Illinois (family of four making $83,000.

  • Letter to BBC Officials re “Earth: The Climate Wars”

    Published October 10, 2008
    By James Taylor
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    I am writing to protest the misrepresentation of the views of scientists who spoke at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change, hosted by The Heartland Institute in March, in the BBC series “Earth: The Climate Wars.

  • Comcast Told to Stop Throttling

    Published October 10, 2008
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    The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has reprimanded cable provider Comcast Corp., saying the company violated federal government policy when it blocked Internet traffic for some subscribers.

  • Silicon Valley Plagued by Mobile Woes

    Published October 10, 2008
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    Civic leaders in Silicon Valley are considering their options in light of a new report exposing myriad technical problems plaguing mobile phone users in the region, while analysts point out local governments are a big part of the problem.

  • Copyright Office May Require Internet Radio to Pay Royalties

    Published October 10, 2008
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    The U.S. Copyright Office accepted comments until September 2 on a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to determine whether royalties should be required for musical compositions distributed through real-time webcasting such as Internet radio.

  • Earthlink Abandons Anaheim Wi-Fi Project

    Published October 10, 2008
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    One thousand Anaheim, California wi-fi customers will lose their municipal wi-fi service by September 30, when Internet service provider Earthlink must have all its equipment removed from the city’s property.

  • Springfield, Mich. Wi-Fi Underway Despite Failures in Other Cities

    Published October 10, 2008
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    Springfield, Michigan has started a municipal wi-fi operation only months after several other initiatives in different parts of the country have stalled or failed completely.

  • Market Solutions to Internet Congestion Available

    Published October 10, 2008
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    There is no evidence of Internet-bandwidth congestion in the United States, and therefore no need to adopt “tiered” strategies for data delivery, according to a new policy brief from the Free Press organization.

  • DNS Vulnerabilities Spur Security Concerns

    Published October 10, 2008
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    A Russian computer researcher and part-time hacker’s recent discovery of vulnerabilities in the latest Domain Name System (DNS) “patch” has brought renewed urgency to the debate over Internet security and governance.

  • DeFazio Bill Would Ban In-Flight Cell Calls

    Published October 10, 2008
    By Tabassum Rahmani
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    A bill before the U.S. House of Representatives would ban the use of cell phones on commercial aircraft in flight. The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure passed the Halting Airplane Noise to Give Us Peace (Hang Up) Act, H.R. 5788, on July 31.

  • Google Investment Loss on AOL Shouldn’t Bring Government Intrusion in Finances, Experts Say

    Published October 10, 2008
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    Web search giant Google has filed papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that project the value of America Online (AOL), in which it holds a 5 percent stake, at $10 billion.

  • Federal Regs Causing IPO Drought

    Published October 10, 2008
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    Weakness in financial markets and expenses brought on by Sarbanes-Oxley rules have led to a dearth of initial public offerings (IPOs) in the United States, hitting the information technology sector particularly hard.

  • Tenure Is the Main Drag

    Published October 10, 2008
    By Robert G. Holland (1940-2017)
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    If there is any urgency about raising student achievement in the nation’s big cities (and there should be), it is utterly absurd that a public-school principal cannot remove an incompetent teacher from a classroom for two years or longer because of

  • Conning Voters Out Of Con-Con 2008

    Published October 10, 2008
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    Dear Editor: First, the Chicago Sun-Times editorialized against an Illinois Constitutional Convention because the result could make matters worse for citizens by allowing spurious changes to the state laws protecting a woman's reproductive rights, and

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