Opinion
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What Are They Smoking?
Opinion -Federal tax increases on cigarettes to pay for children’s health insurance shows politicians’ willingness to exploit children while creating more holes in their own operating budgets due to less revenues collected from cigarette smokers( -
We Are Already Behind In Math And Science, So Why Try To Exceed In English?
Opinion -Linda Wertheimer exposes the mediocrity in American academia, which continues to dumb down our next generation of college students (“Many Colleges Ignore SAT Writing Test”, September 20). -
Court Throws out Global Warming Lawsuit Against California Automakers
Opinion -Regarding "Global Warming, Tailpipes And Where to Tackle Them" (Sept. 18), it is refreshing to see a federal court shut down efforts by environmentally extremist bureaucrats to circumvent the democratic process. -
NASA Data Exaggerated U.S. Warming
Opinion -U.S. temperature data compiled and reported by NASA since 2000 contained errors that caused the organization to falsely claim a number of recent years were the hottest or among the hottest on record, scientists have discovered. -
Bush Threatens Veto of Energy Bill
Opinion -U.S. House and Senate negotiators spent the August recess preparing to hammer out differences in their respective energy bills while President George W. Bush threatened to veto the legislation. -
Alaska Teachers Indoctrinated with Misleading Global Warming Materials
Opinion -Schoolteachers across Alaska are being fed exaggerated and false global warming alarmist materials to distribute to their students, thanks to the taxpayer-funded University of Alaska-Fairbanks. -
The American Lung Association’s Fear Campaign
Opinion -This article is the second in a three-part series by Joel Schwartz addressing the American Lung Association's State of the Air 2007 report. Part I appeared in the July issue of Environment & Climate News. -
Nuclear Power Plant Withstands Major Earthquake
Opinion -In a real-world test of nuclear power plant safety, the world's largest nuclear power plant, at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, Japan, took the brunt of a major earthquake on July 16, 2007 and passed the test admirably. Little Damage Suffered Despite a magnitude 6. -
No Reason to Gush Over Japan’s Telecom Model
Opinion -I am old enough to remember the so-called "Japanese miracle" of the 1980s, and the subsequent bust, with a decade of recession and then little or no economic growth. -
Beyond MySpace: Emerging Online Social Network Models
Opinion -Social network sites can take widely differing security approaches. MySpace.com, for example, is an "open field" for social networking. Anyone may go there and quickly run a search among the people who have registered on the site. -
Norquist, Nader Call for State Spending Transparency
Opinion -They say politics creates strange bedfellows. Here is another example. -
Ticket Resale Laws Change Due to Internet
Opinion -Sparked by the growing popularity of Internet auctions as a forum for ticketholders to find eager buyers, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D) signed legislation in August relaxing restrictions on the resale of tickets to sporting and entertainment events. -
North Carolina Considers New Law Requiring Age Verification on MySpace
Opinion -North Carolina legislators are weighing the merits of a unique bill aimed at governing non-adult access to Internet social networking sites, including thorny issues on the role of parental approval and whether the measure can actually help curb child -
Report Tempers RFID Fears
Opinion -Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology has gained widespread use, and attempts to regulate or ban such devices are premature, says a new report from the Pacific Research Institute. -
Let Parents Regulate Kids’ Video Games
Opinion -In August, a U.S. -
Europe’s Prosecution of Microsoft Ignores a Changing Marketplace
Opinion -Now that the European Union (EU) has ordered Microsoft to provide a special version of Microsoft Vista--one without a browser--nobody wants it, just as they didn't want the browser-free Windows the company was forced to offer before. -
UK Webcast Shows Value of New Approaches to Media
Opinion -A professionally produced, live streaming video program in the United Kingdom may be an indicator of the future of media in the Internet age. -
How Carriers Game the System
Opinion -Here's an explanation of how rural exchange carriers can work the regulated interconnection compensation rates to their advantage. Let's imagine three phone companies--Sam's Telephone Co., Karla's Telephone Co., and James' Telephone Co. -
Chicago Scraps Muni Wireless; Houston’s Plans Also on Hold
Opinion -In late August the City of Chicago pulled the plug on plans to build a citywide municipal wireless system after failing to come to terms with prospective partner EarthLink. -
Cities Rewrite Their Wireless Stories
Opinion -There's a certain amount of rewriting of history going on these days in municipal wireless circles. -
Wisconsin Senate OKs Record $15.2 Billion Tax Increase for Health Mandate
Opinion -A universal health insurance mandate that relies on a $15.2 billion payroll tax for funding has passed the Wisconsin Senate. -
GAO Warning: Huge State, Local Budget Deficits Loom
Opinion -State and local governments will have to raise taxes 17 percent or cut spending 14 percent to keep their operating budgets in balance over the next decade, according to a report issued July 18 by the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO). -
County Commissioner Gives Illinois Lawmakers an Earful over TIF Abuse
Opinion -Rarely does a person get a two-hour, closed-door meeting with Illinois' most powerful lawmakers. -
Study: Spending Reforms Are Key to Property Tax Relief in Conn.
Opinion -Spending reforms are essential to solving Connecticut's property tax crisis, but legislators and Gov. M. Jodi Rell (R) will need political courage to adopt them, according to a new study by the Hartford-based Yankee Institute for Public Policy.