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  • Choice and Education: Florida Earns an A

    Published April 25, 2008
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    (Chicago, Illinois - April 25, 2008) Parents hoping to wrest control of their children's futures away from education bureaucrats and politicians should consider moving to Florida, a new "report card" from The Heartland Institute suggests.

  • Choice and Education: Wisconsin Earns an A

    Published April 24, 2008
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    (Chicago, Illinois - April 24, 2008) Parents hoping to wrest control of their children's futures away from education bureaucrats and politicians should consider moving to Wisconsin, a new "report card" from The Heartland Institute suggests.

  • A ‘Nobel’ Folly

    Published April 23, 2008
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    Take away Al Gore’s Nobel peace prize. Give him another one -- literature maybe, or art -- but the peace prize has got to go. This is not a question of his environmental policies. Agree or disagree, they are not the issue here.

  • Choice and Education: West Virginia Earns an F

    Published April 23, 2008
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    (Chicago, IL - April 23, 2008) Parents hoping to wrest control of their children's futures away from education bureaucrats and politicians should consider moving from West Virginia. Arizona and Florida offer more promising opportunities.

  • Environmental Activist Failures Highlight Earth Day

    Published April 23, 2008
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    The Earth Day propaganda machine will be in full swing today with alarmist stories of humans destroying the environment. By virtually every measure -- including air quality, water quality, forest health, etc. -- environmental health in the U.S.

  • Learning Should Follow Teaching

    Published April 23, 2008
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    The letters from the two public school educators (Sara Stevenson, April 101, and Molly Wuller, April 162) regarding school choice are rather condescending about the "poorly prepared . . .

  • Choice and Education: South Dakota Earns an F

    Published April 22, 2008
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    (Chicago, Illinois - April 22, 2008) Parents hoping to wrest control of their children's futures away from education bureaucrats and politicians should consider moving from South Dakota. Arizona and Florida offer more promising opportunities.

  • Would the Feds Do a Better Job Regulating Insurance?

    Published April 22, 2008
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    Insurers face increasing competition from financial institutions for products the insurers alone once provided. The 50-state regulatory model has put the insurance industry at a decided disadvantage. Rep.

  • Hundreds Sign Climate Realist Declaration ‘Global Warming’ is not a Global Crisis

    Published April 22, 2008
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    (Ottawa, Canada - April 22, 2008) The International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC) today released the names of over 500 endorsers of the Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change that calls on world leaders to “reject the views expressed by the

  • Choice and Education: Oklahoma Earns an F

    Published April 21, 2008
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    (Chicago, Illinois - April 21, 2008) Parents hoping to wrest control of their children's futures away from education bureaucrats and politicians should consider moving from Oklahoma. Arizona and Florida offer more promising opportunities.

  • Choice and Education: North Dakota Earns an F

    Published April 18, 2008
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    (Chicago, Illinois - April 18, 2008) Parents hoping to wrest control of their children's futures away from education bureaucrats and politicians should consider moving away from North Dakota. Arizona and Florida offer more promising opportunities.

  • Award-Winning Chicago Journalist Dan Miller joins The Heartland Institute

    Published April 18, 2008
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    ((Chicago, IL -- March 13, 2008) The Heartland Institute has announced that Dan Miller has joined its team of public policy experts as Executive Vice President and Publisher.

  • U.S. Governors Meeting at Yale Fuels Global Warming Alarmism

    Published April 18, 2008
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    (Chicago, Ill. - April 18, 2008) On Friday, April 18, Yale University hosted a meeting of state governors calling for restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions. According to James M.

  • Presidential Call to Curb Greenhouse Gas Emissions Will Hurt U.S. Economy

    Published April 16, 2008
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    (Chicago, Ill. - April 16, 2008) President George Bush Wednesday outlined a new initiative on global warming and the curtailment of greenhouse gases.

  • Minnesota Legislators Invite Heartland Staff to Lead Climate Change Seminar

    Published April 16, 2008
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    (Chicago, Ill. - April 16, 2008) On Thursday, April 17, two senior staff members from The Heartland Institute will lead a legislative seminar in Minnesota on the science behind climate change at the invitation of Gopher State law makers.

  • Choice and Education: Alabama Earns an F

    Published April 16, 2008
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    (Chicago, Illinois - April 16, 2008) Parents hoping to wrest control of their children's futures away from education bureaucrats and politicians should consider moving from Alabama. Arizona and Florida offer more promising opportunities.

  • Choice and Education: Washington State Earns an F

    Published April 15, 2008
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    (Chicago, Illinois - April 15, 2008) Parents hoping to wrest control of their children's futures away from education bureaucrats and politicians should consider moving from Washington. Arizona and Florida offer more promising opportunities.

  • Disarming Parents and Law-Abiding Citizens: No Way To Win War on Gun Violence

    Published April 15, 2008
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    Chicago’s public school officials have been busing students to Springfield to act as “grief” machines to advocate passage of stronger gun control measures by the Illinois legislature.

  • Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #7-07

    Published April 15, 2008
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    Warning: Lawyers Prowling Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch is on the job again, handing out awards in its 11th annual Wacky Warning Label Contest. First prize went to the label on a small tractor saying, “Danger: Avoid Death.

  • Prominent Hurricane Scientist Goes Wobbly on Hurricane-Global Warming Link

    Published April 15, 2008
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    A remarkable new study, published in the March 2008 issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, concludes that global warming can’t be blamed for an increase in the number of hurricanes over the last 27 years.

  • Expert Comments: Drought, Flood Risk Exaggerated

    Published April 14, 2008
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    (April 14, 2008 - Chicago, Illinois) Scientists meeting in Budapest, Hungary last week to discuss climate change warned that future global warming will cause floods and droughts, putting world water and food supplies at risk.

  • Choice and Education: Where Does Your State Rank?

    Published April 14, 2008
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    (Chicago, Illinois - April 14, 2008) Parents hoping to wrest control of their children's futures away from education bureaucrats and politicians should consider moving to Arizona or Florida, a new "report card" from The Heartland Institute suggests.

  • Expert Warns Great Lakes Compact Is a ‘Terrible Idea’

    Published April 11, 2008
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    (Chicago, IL - April 11, 2008) Legislative opponents to a plan that would surrender control of Great Lakes water planning to a regional commission ceased their dissent earlier this week.

  • Will Global Warming Slow Molasses?

    Published April 11, 2008
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    If it's spring, then it's time for the annual Global Warming Alarm to sound on the outlook for the maple syrup sap runs in New England.

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