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Consumer Power Report #119
Opinion -Consumer Power Report, written by Greg Scandlen, director of Consumers for Health Care Choices at The Heartland Institute, is a weekly report summarizing recent developments on consumer-directed health care in the media, legislative, and regulatory -
Expert Availability: 2008 International Conference on Climate Change
Opinion -(Chicago, IL - March 12, 2008) Scientists and policy experts who addressed the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change, which attracted more than 500 people from around the world to New York City on March 2-4, are available for media interviews. -
The Forces of Climate Sanity
Opinion -Last week, The Heartland Institute put on "The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change", attended by scientists, economists, and politicians who see a lot of trouble with the science, economics, and politics of current global warming hysteria. -
From Climate Alarmism to Climate Realism
Opinion -Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, I would like first of all to thank the organizers of this important conference for making it possible and also for inviting one politically incorrect politician from Central Europe to come and speak here. -
New Survey Confirms No Consensus on Man’s Effect on Climate Change
Opinion -Just two days after an international conference featuring hundreds of scientists who say global warming is not a crisis, a new survey of 51,000 professional engineers, geologists, and geophysicists in Alberta, Canada found only 26 percent believe global -
Plenty of Scientists at Global Warming Conference
Opinion -Dear Editor: Columnist Andrew Revkin, reporting from the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change (“Cool View of Science at Meeting on Warming,” March 4), wrote that only 19 of the more-than-500 people in attendance came to the front of the -
Consumer Power Report #118
Opinion -Consumer Power Report, written by Greg Scandlen, director of Consumers for Health Care Choices at The Heartland Institute, is a weekly report summarizing recent developments on consumer-directed health care in the media, legislative, and regulatory -
New York Global Warming Conference Considers ‘Manhattan Declaration’
Opinion -(New York, NY / Chicago, IL -- March 4, 2008) Scientists and researchers participating in the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change at the Marriott Marquis Hotel on Times Square in New York City closed business today by considering the -
Report #3 from the Global Warming Conference in New York City
Opinion -Report #3 from the Global Warming Conference in New York City By Joseph Bast, President, The Heartland Institute Tuesday, March 4, 2008 (6:00 p.m. -
Research of Hundreds More Scientists Shows the Natural 1,500-Year Climate Cycle
Opinion -(New York City - March 3, 2008)--The co-authors of the best-seller Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1,500 Years today released a second list of more than 400 peer-reviewed scientists who’ve recently found physical evidence of the long, natural -
New York Daily News Profiles Climate Change Conference Speaker
Opinion -On Sunday, March 2, reporter Rich Schapiro of the New York Daily News profiled J. Scott Armstrong, Ph.D. -
Report #1 from the Global Warming Conference in New York City
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Media Backgrounder: Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate
Opinion -When errors were observed in the initial drafts of the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report, the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) set up a ‘Team B’ to produce an independent evaluation of the available scientific evidence. -
Report #2 from the Global Warming Conference in New York City
Opinion -Report #2 from the Global Warming Conference in New York City By Joseph Bast, President, The Heartland Institute Monday, March 3, 2008 (10:30 p.m. -
Global Warming Visuals Often Distort Scientific Data
Opinion -(Chicago, Illinois and New York, New York - March 3, 2008) A new study on the use of visual exhibits in the global warming debate--a tactic employed regularly by former Vice President Al Gore in his film, An Inconvenient Truth--reveals how graphs, -
Media Advisory: Presentation of the Summary for Policymakers of the NIPCC Report on Global Warming
Opinion -Monday, March 3, 2008, 12:00 noon. -
Opening Remarks at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change
Opinion -Opening Remarks by Joseph Bast, president of The Heartland Institute March 2, 2008 Click here for a PDF of this document Good evening, and welcome to the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change. -
Payday Loans: Filling the Gap?
Opinion -Several states are considering severe limits or even bans on certain types of short-term loans, often called “payday loans. -
Feds Investigate Evidence of Fraud in Seattle Port Projects
Opinion -The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation of the Port of Seattle after a recent performance audit uncovered compelling evidence that fraud may have occurred in some of the port's construction projects. -
St. Louis County Pulls Planned Sales Tax Hike from February Ballot
Opinion -Less than one month after voting to put a 200 percent sales tax increase on the February 5 ballot, the St. Louis (Missouri) County Council voted to remove the proposal. Likely defeat of the measure was the apparent reason for the reversal. -
Michigan Moves to Collect Union PAC Money
Opinion -Michigan's Office of the State Employer (OSE) wants state agencies to have the power to deduct political action committee funds from the paychecks of state employees who are union members. -
Taxpayer Revolt, Rebel Commissioners Stave Off Cook County Tax Hikes
Opinion -Complaints from thousands of angry taxpayers and infighting among county commissioners have held off nearly $890 million of proposed tax and fee hikes in Cook County, Illinois. -
The Michigan Diaspora–State Policies Drive Out Residents, Jobs
Opinion -Michigan residents continue to flee the Great Lake State and are doing so at a near-record rate, according to one vital measure. -
State-Level Reforms Are Unlikely in 2008
Opinion -Most of the legislative action on health care in the past year has been in the states, and it will continue to be so in 2008, though we don't expect a lot of achievements this year at the state level, either.
