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Microfinance Gets Online Presence
Opinion -A San Francisco-based Internet start-up is shaking up the microfinance world by offering online loans from individual volunteers. -
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Pharmacy Reimbursement Bill Stalls in Congress
Opinion -Community pharmacy owners nationwide watched with concern this autumn as U.S. House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell (D-MI) delayed scheduling hearings for federal legislation that may make or break their businesses' future. -
Study Identifies States’ Health Policy Reform Successes … and Mistakes
Opinion -On September 4, a public policy research group in Kansas released a study showing which health care reforms are--and are not--working in other states. -
Cancer Society Turns Ad Campaign Toward Politics
Opinion -Faces of Americans flash across the television screen as a narrator says, "This is what a health care crisis looks like to the American Cancer Society: People with cancer but without insurance, countless others with insurance, just not enough to cover -
Choice Is Key to Cutting Florida Dropout Rate
Opinion -Many people are stunned to learn that less than 50 percent of minority children graduate high school in Florida. -
Minnesota Becomes First State to Stop Billing After Medical Errors
Opinion -Minnesota's hospitals have formally agreed to stop charging patients and insurance companies for certain medical errors, such as operating on the wrong body part. As a practical matter, it's not really a huge change, hospital officials say. -
Tuscaloosa Parents Fight for School Choice
Opinion -Tuscaloosa, Alabama parents are pressing for the right to take their child out of bad schools and put them in good ones. -
Students Thrown Climate Life Preserver
Opinion -Two new children's books on global warming are out. One is designed to reduce anxiety among children; the other is designed to heighten it. So which is better? That depends on how you like your facts--right or wrong. -
Illinois Adjusts Electricity Price Structure
Opinion -Legislation altering the pricing structure of electricity took effect in Illinois on August 28, creating an uncertain future for electricity prices in the state. -
Two New Children’s Books Take on Global Warming
Opinion -Two new books on global warming for kids are out. One is designed to reduce anxiety among children; the other is designed to heighten it. -
What Is the Real Scientific Consensus on Pesticides?
Opinion -According to the Web site of the Environmental Working Group, "There is growing consensus in the scientific community that small doses of pesticides and other chemicals can adversely affect people, especially during vulnerable periods of fetal -
Congress Approves 7-Year Extension of Internet Access Tax Moratorium
Opinion -Congress approved an extension of the national moratorium on Internet taxes one day before the previous moratorium was due to expire. -
FCC Revisits Special Access Rules
Opinion -The long-simmering struggle over special access fees is heating up as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins accumulating industry input on whether business or technology conditions have changed enough to warrant alterations in how it sets -
Consumers Face New ‘Net Taxes If Ban Expires
Opinion -Beginning this fall U.S. consumers could face a slew of new Internet taxes unless Congress extends or makes permanent a federal ban that is set to expire November 1. -
Prevailing-Wage Policy Drives Up Costs in Kentucky
Opinion -Prevailing-wage laws added 7 percent--nearly $137 million--to the cost of government construction projects in Kentucky in 2002, the latest year for which figures are available, according to the nonpartisan Legislative Research Commission (LRC). -
Fighting Back Against Junk Science
Opinion -In last month's column, I identified five groups responsible for perpetuating the fake consensus that pesticides pose a significant public health threat: the media, politicians, liberal advocacy groups, government agencies, and the organic food industry. -
Book Misses its Opportunity to Suggest Real Medicaid Reforms
Opinion -Making Medicaid Work: A Practical Guide for Transforming Medicaid Atlanta: SHPS and Center for Health Transformation, 2007 84 pages Available for free download at http://www.shps.com/medicaid/book/medicaid. -
2007 NAEP Scores Show Spending Increases Haven’t Produced Results
Opinion -The 2007 edition of "The Nation's Report Card" wasn't straight A or straight F when it was released in late September. -
Distance Learning Is Advancing School Choice
Opinion -As important as school vouchers are, the greatest progress toward choice probably isn't taking place in Utah right now. -
California’s Expensive ZIP Codes Deliver Cut-Rate Education Results
Opinion -Not as Good as You Think: Why the Middle Class Needs School Choice By Lance T. Izumi, Vicki E. Murray, and Rachel S. Chaney, with Ruben Peterson and Rosemarie Fusano San Francisco: Pacific Research Institute, 2007 available online at http://special. -
Environmentalists Voice Ethanol Concerns
Opinion -On September 20, Environmental Defense--an environmental activist group whose Web site encourages Americans to give up their gasoline-powered automobiles to curb global warming--issued a study raising concerns about gasoline's most viable competitor: -
Campus Leaders Unite at Minnesota Eco-Summit Retreat
Opinion -On August 2, just one day after the tragic collapse of the I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a group of Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) staff and students trekked via the Twin Cities to Breezy Point, Minnesota for the organization's -
Comcast P2P Blocking Reignites Neutrality Debate
Opinion -Congress is planning to revisit network neutrality legislation by year end, with the House Committee on Energy and Commerce expected to move as early as mid-November, according to reports at press time.
