Opinion
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Municipal Wireless Scuttled in California City Amid ‘Misplaced’ Public Health Concerns
Opinion -Plans for a municipal wireless network in Sebastopol, California have been abandoned amid growing concern in the community over wi-fi as a public health danger.Sebastopol had contracted with Sonic. -
Minnesota Governor Vetoes Legislature’s Chemical Ban
Opinion -Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) has vetoed a bill that would have banned the chemical bisphenol-A from products that come into contact with children. -
Debunking Persistent Global Warming Myths
Opinion -The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism by Christopher Horner Regnery, 2007, 366 pages, $19. -
Florida Passes Model Legislation Allowing More Health Insurance Choice
Opinion -Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) has signed a bill allowing uninsured Floridians to purchase health insurance plans largely free of expensive, superfluous mandated coverages. -
Kids’ Obesity Rates Leveling Off
Opinion -Childhood obesity rates in the United States have leveled off after decades of increases, according to a study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). -
Rhode Island Legislators Get Health Insurance Stipend
Opinion -A new Rhode Island law may give the state's legislators a real advantage over their constituents when it comes to health insurance. The measure, sponsored by state Rep. Lisa Baldelli-Hunt (D-Woonsocket), took effect July 1. -
Wisconsin Insurance Providers Increase Cost Transparency
Opinion -Insurance-providing members of the Wisconsin Association of Health Plans have pledged to make health care costs more transparent to enrollees. -
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AHIP Cedes Initiative to Government in Health Care Overhaul Proposal
Opinion -America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), a trade association representing more than 1,300 health insurance providers, has offered a proposal it says could help the United States reduce total spending on health care by more than $145 billion in the next -
Arkansas Aims to Increase SCHIP Participation
Opinion -An Arkansas-based advocacy group has kicked off a new initiative intended to increase enrollment of the state's children in ARKids First, the state's federally funded Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). -
Kansas Legislature Rejects Big-Government Health Care
Opinion -Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D) has signed into law a bill implementing several new health care initiatives, but most of the big-government provisions were rejected by the legislature before the measure reached the governor's desk. -
A Health Care Revolution Is Underway … No Thanks to Government ‘Help’
Opinion -Although presidential candidates Sens. Barack Obama (D-IL) and John McCain (R-AZ) have wide differences in their positions on health care, it may not matter much what they or other politicians have to say on the matter. -
Obesity Has Many Causes … and Wide-Ranging Market Solutions
Opinion -The Fattening of America: How the Economy Makes Us Fat, If It Matters, and What to Do About It by Eric Finkelstein and Laurie Zuckerman John Wiley & Sons, 2008 274 pages, hardcover, $26.95, ISBN: 978-0470124666 available on Amazon. -
Allowing Interstate Purchase Could Reduce the Number of Uninsured, Analysts Say
Opinion -Analysts investigating why so many people are uninsured are increasingly concluding state regulations on the insurance market are one of the biggest causes of the problem, by making insurance unaffordable for many people. -
Consumer Power Report #138
Opinion -The chickens are coming home to roost.I won't spend a lot of time on Ted Stevens. He will be tried and found guilty -- or not. -
Congress Threatens to Regulate U.S. IT Firms Operating Abroad
Opinion -The overseas activities of U.S. information technology firms have come under increasing scrutiny as the U.S. Senate considers regulating the firms more closely. -
U.S. Slipping in Tech Innovation
Opinion -America's position as a technology innovation leader--and hence a prime destination of venture capital funds--may be under threat. That's the conclusion of a recent survey of venture capitalists at Deloitte and the National Venture Capital Association. -
Prominent Senator Calls on Google to Remove Terrorist YouTube Videos
Opinion -In an explicit bid to restrict content on the Internet, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) has asked YouTube to remove Islamic terrorist videos from the highly popular video Web site. -
DC Summit Takes Up Community Wireless
Opinion -Panels at the International Summit for Community Wireless Networks in Washington, DC recently aired the human rights implications of broadening Internet access. -
Overstock, Amazon Fight Online Sales Tax
Opinion -Overstock.com has become the second online retailer to mount a legal challenge against a New York law that effectively defines them as state-based merchants, forcing them to collect sales tax on purchases made by consumers who reside in the Empire State. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #7-13
Opinion -Everyone’s a Critic A Durham, North Carolina lawyer sued his local newspaper in June for breach of contract because it fired 70 staffers. -
San Jose Airport Unveils Free Wi-Fi Service
Opinion -Mineta San Jose International Airport has begun offering travelers free wi-fi Internet as an alternative to the paid access previously available at the site. -
Sixteen States May Ban Banning Texting While Driving
Opinion -Citing an alleged rise in automobile accidents, 16 states--including Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, and New York--are considering legislation to ban text messaging, or "texting," while driving. -
‘Affiliate’ Rules Are Complex
Opinion -The language describing the process by which an "affiliate" is defined as a "nexus" in New York's controversial new law redefining out-of-state merchants as in-state has proved complicated enough to require the New York Department of Taxation to issue a