Opinion
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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. -
Impact Fees Reduce Housing Affordability, New Study Maintains
Opinion -Impact fees provide one of the most potent weapons for both sides in the battle over sprawl. -
Billions in Tobacco Taxes to Fuel Expansion of Federal Health Program
Opinion -The big question over reauthorization of the federal government's State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) appears to be this: $35 billion, $50 billion, or something in between? On August 1, the U.S. -
Tax Hike on Cigars, Other Tobacco Products Proposed
Opinion -Cigar makers and distributors were stunned to learn legislation to fund an expansion of the federal State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) included a potential 20,000 percent increase in the tax on cigars. That is not a misprint. -
Excise Taxes Impose Growing Burden on the Poor
Opinion -See if this rule makes sense to you: If you want to help poor children, do not raise taxes on poor families. -
State of the Unions: Big Labor’s Decline Explained
Opinion -Is the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the 1935 law designed to protect and invigorate the labor movement, responsible for the past 50 years of the movement's decline? Michael Wachter, the William B.