Opinion
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Consumer-Oriented Government Policy Can Avert Dire Health Care Mega-Trends
Opinion -One of the most innovative ideas that appeared in Patient Power: The Free-Enterprise Alternative to Clinton's Health Plan, a book I wrote in 1993 with Gerry Musgrave, and again in my 2007 study on "Applying the 'Do No Harm' Principle to Health Policy," -
Environmentalists Oppose New CO2 Scrubber Idea
Opinion -Scientists at Columbia University are developing a carbon dioxide (CO2) scrubber device that removes one ton of CO2 from the air every day. -
FCC Takes Second Shot at D-Block Auction
Opinion -The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is making another attempt to auction the "D-block" spectrum and has issued a request for public comment on the idea. -
Four Steps to Reforming Long-Term Care
Opinion -Excerpt from The Handbook on State Health Care Reform, co-authored by John C. Goodman, Michael Bond, Devon M. Herrick, Gerald L. Musgrave, Pamela Villarreal, and Joe Barnett. -
Invasive Milfoil Is Taking its Toll on Minnesota Lake Communities
Opinion -The Land of Ten Thousand Lakes is quickly becoming the Land of Aquatic Devastation as noxious Eurasian milfoil spreads rapidly across the state. -
More Peer-Reviewed Studies Contradict Global Warming Alarmism
Opinion -Despite what many global warming alarmists assert in the media, there are many articles in the world's leading science publications contradicting the assertion that "the debate is over" about global warming. -
MPAA Wins Copyright Infringement Lawsuits
Opinion -The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has won $4 million in damages from two Web sites found guilty of contributory copyright infringement. MPAA sued CinemaTube.net and Ssupload. -
Poll: Americans Don’t Believe We Cause Warming
Opinion -Fewer than half of Americans polled by the Pew Research Center believe humans are causing global warming, and a declining number even believe the Earth is experiencing a warming trend. -
Rhode Island Governor Offers Proposal for Consumer-Driven Medicaid Overhaul
Opinion -Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri (R) has offered a proposal to save taxpayers $67 million by overhauling Rite Care, the state's Medicaid program. -
SCHIP Rules Get Mixed Reviews in States
Opinion -A reform implemented by President George W. -
Scientists Predict Global Warming Will Reduce Number of Hurricanes
Opinion -Global warming is likely to reduce the number of hurricanes that occur each year, according to two new studies by forecasters who previously claimed global warming would cause more hurricanes. -
Study: Cable System Is Interfering with BitTorrent Downloads
Opinion -A new study reports Cox Communications may be routinely interfering with customers' attempted file transfers through BitTorrent applications. -
Verizon Gets Qualified Approval to Offer Cable TV in New York City
Opinion -New Yorkers are looking forward to more choice in television as New York City's Franchise and Concession Review Committee (FCRC) has voted to allow Verizon to offer cable television services throughout the city. -
Leave Stores Alone
Opinion -Banning legal products from being sold at privately owned businesses, as San Francisco did recently with tobacco, shows a remarkable arrogance (July 30, "Board passes tobacco ban in pharmacies"). -
More Regulation Will Invite Worse Behavior
Opinion -Paul Krugman is too sophisticated to think that more regulation will temper excessive risk-taking in financial markets. -
Consumer Power Report #137
Opinion -The next in our series of Consumer Education Workshops will be held in Austin, Texas on October 17. -
U.S. Housing Policy Needs a Bold New Approach
Opinion -"Summer 2008 could be considered a perilous time to be making recommendations on housing policy for the 21st Century," admits William Higginson, author of a new report on affordable housing in the U.S. -
Don’t Give Up on School Vouchers!
Opinion -As some educators and school choice advocates begin to question whether school vouchers can reform public education, a new study of Milwaukee’s pioneering voucher program -- the nation’s oldest and largest city-specific program -
Executive Summary: Can Vouchers Reform Public Schools?
Opinion -This Heartland Policy Study by education expert George Clowes addresses concerns about the efficacy of school vouchers that have been raised recently by some school reform advocates. -
Gore’s Nutty Idea
Opinion -He’s a former vice president of the United States, Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author, so the lavish news coverage of Al Gore’s latest brainstorm was inevitable. -
Regulatory Overkill
Opinion -It is more difficult to get a loan today than at any time in recent memory. -
Waukegan Charter School
Opinion -With overcrowding, falling test scores, and increased levels of gang-related violence at Waukegan High, how can anyone concerned with the well-being and education of these students oppose the formation of a new charter school? -
Gone With the Wind
Opinion -Mr. T. Boone Pickens’ campaign for government subsidies to wind power, advertised in a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal and subsequently in an op-ed piece in the same, seems erroneous in several respects. -
The Global Warming Scare Is Over
Opinion -For many years I was an active member of the Sierra Club, and even an editor of Lake and Prairie, the newsletter of the Illinois chapter.