Opinion
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SCHIP Needs to Focus on Children
Opinion -“Schip Legislation: Not good enough” (Sept. 26) fails to address what reauthorizing the State Children’s Health Insurance Program actually means. -
Consumer Power Report #98
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 -
City Governments Scrap Universal WiFi
Opinion -It should be no surprise that many city governments are giving up plans for government-run universal WiFi service. (USA Today, Sept. 21). -
Retailer Misses Job Targets Again
Opinion -For the second year in a row, outdoor retailer Cabela's missed job targets set by its performance contracts with the state of Texas. -
Destroying the Rationale for Government Growth
Opinion -Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't by John Lott Regnery Publishing, Inc. (June 4, 2007) 256 pages, hardcover ISBN 596985062, $27. -
Economic Choices Have Long-Term Consequences
Opinion -Bulls Don't Blush, Bears Don't Die Barry Asmus AmeriPress, 2006 365 pages, $44. -
Science Refutes Fla. Governor’s Climate Alarmism
Opinion -While Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) faces growing opposition to his plans to force greenhouse gas restrictions on Florida citizens, science is calling into question the primary reasons Crist uses to justify his expensive restrictions. -
Louisiana Fails to Approve School Choice Measures
Opinion -Though Louisiana legislators tried to give tax deductions to parents who want to enroll their children in private schools, their efforts fizzled this summer after one bill was vetoed and another was voted down. -
A Valuable Primer for Education Reporters
Opinion -From Contracts to Classrooms: Covering Teachers Unions New York: Hechinger Institute, April 2007 36 pages, paperback download available at http://cms.ceoi.summitqwest.com/assets/hechinger/pdfs/Hechinger_Union_Primer.pdf. -
Social Networks Increase Their Online Security
Opinion -Legislative efforts to make Internet social networking sites safer may be lagging the market's own incentives to do so, experts say. -
Congress Ponders Bills Promoting Telework by Federal Employees
Opinion -Reflecting an effort to fight traffic congestion and conserve fuel in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, Congress is crafting legislation that will direct federal agencies to encourage and bolster telecommuting programs for government employees. -
Wherever Ye May Roam …
Opinion -Wireless service providers must provide automatic roaming services to other carriers upon "reasonable request," the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ordered in August. -
More Freight Rail Could Reduce Road Congestion
Opinion -State and national policymakers are missing an important part of the solution to reducing traffic gridlock: putting more trucks on trains, according to the author of a soon-to-be-released report from The Heartland Institute. -
Court Strikes Down California Video Game Law
Opinion -State efforts to regulate the sale of video games took another hit late this summer when a United States District Court in California granted a permanent injunction against a state law designed to prevent the sale of violent video games to minors. -
Changes to Wiretap Law Stoke Controversy
Opinion -Changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the law that governs wiretapping of communications involving parties outside the country, have come under fire from both technology advocates and free-market analysts. -
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.