Opinion
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Transit Tax Hike Not Okay
Opinion -Mayor Daley says “no one is going to blame anyone for increasing the sales tax" to fund mass transit ("Daley says tax hike for transit essential," Chicago Tribune, Aug. 23). -
Consumer Power Report #94
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 -
Global Warming Consensus Does Not Exist Among Scientists
Opinion -Randy Scholfield in his August 24 column (“Why do some deny global warming?”) wonders why so many people “resist the evidence of human-caused climate change.” After all, he writes, “the overwhelming consensus of mainstream science is clear. -
Misinformation Hamstrings Debate on Climate Change
Opinion -Nicole Gelinas starts and ends her August 23 essay in the Wall Street Journal, titled "A Carbon Tax Would Be Cleaner," with errors that negate whatever insights the rest of the essay provides. -
School Choice Expert Herb Walberg to Appear on the Milt Rosenberg Show
Opinion -(September 5, 2007 Chicago, Illinois) Herb Walberg, Ph.D., school choice expert and author of the new book School Choice: The Findings, will appear on the Milt Rosenberg radio show, Extension 720, September 10 from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. (CST). Dr. -
Environmentalists Defend Property Values Against Global Warming ‘Art’
Opinion -Even in Santa Barbara, California, arguably the birthplace of the modern environmental movement, environmentalists can go too far. -
House Bill Aims to Circumvent Supreme Court on Clean Water Act
Opinion -Legislation designed to extend the national government's power over isolated local bodies of water is being pushed by environmental activist groups in the weeks leading up to the 2007-2008 U.S. House of Representatives session, which begins in September. -
Human Freedom, Not Climate, Is at Risk
Opinion -We are living in strange times. One exceptionally warm winter is enough--irrespective of the fact that in the course of the twentieth century the global temperature increased only by 0. -
Nevada Senate Unanimously Approves Choice for Special-Needs Students
Opinion -Nevada's Senate made state history in May when its members unanimously approved a measure that would offer scholarships to special-needs students to attend the public or private school of their parents' choice. -
Congress Passes Higher Education Funding Overhaul
Opinion -In July, Congress passed legislation to overhaul federal student aid programs for higher education. -
Arizona Voucher Programs Survive Challenge
Opinion -On June 13, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Bethany Hicks ruled Arizona's voucher programs for foster children and special-needs students are constitutional. -
Lawmakers Seek New Curbs on TV Content
Opinion -Members of Congress and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have threatened broadcast and cable networks with more expansive content regulation unless they make efforts to tone down the adult language and graphic violence. -
Net Neutrality Comments Flood FCC
Opinion -Summer reading at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) included more than 11,000 formal filings and public email comments attempting to persuade the U.S. -
European Commission Buys Google’s Dubious Antitrust Pitch
Opinion -Google markets itself as a twenty-first century innovator, but lately the company has been following a failed business model from the previous century: Trying to game the antitrust laws against the competition. -
Wisconsin Senate OKs $15.2 Billion Payroll Tax Increase
Opinion -A controversial health insurance mandate passed the Wisconsin Senate 18-15 on June 26, less than 24 hours after its introduction. The bill requires everyone in the state to have health insurance. -
Campaign Against Drug Piracy Heats Up
Opinion -Increased efforts and revamped strategy to fight counterfeiting and piracy in the U.S. pharmaceutical market and several other industries worldwide took place in June. -
Keeping Your Eye On The Ball
Opinion -The American health care system has three fundamental problems: cost, quality, and access. Cost: Health care spending per capita is growing at twice the rate of growth of national income. -
Electronic Medical Records May Offer a Partial Solution in Health Care
Opinion -Paper Kills--Transforming Health and Healthcare with Information Technology David Merritt, editor Center for Health Transformation, 2007 150 pages, paperback ISBN: 9781933966021, $19. -
Bald Eagle No Longer Endangered
Opinion -On June 28, the national government removed the bald eagle from the endangered species list. It is great news that bald eagle populations in the contiguous 48 states have done so well, where now there are more than 11,000 breeding pairs. -
Forests Are Expanding Worldwide, Aided by High-Yield Farming Practices
Opinion -An international research team reports in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that 22 of the 50 most forested countries in the world have been gaining forest since 1990, reversing the trend of forest decline often associated with modern -
Environmental Activist Funding, Agendas Exposed
Opinion -The Green Wave: Environmentalism and Its Consequences Bonner Cohen Capital Research Center, 2006 240 pages, $14.95, ISBN 1892934116 Available online through Amazon.com T.S. -
700 MHz Auction: FCC Mandates Test of Wireless Net Neutrality
Opinion -Responding to calls for "network neutrality," the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on July 31 set specific conditions to be fulfilled by the eventual winner of a portion of a large block of spectrum for wireless telecommunications services set to -
ALEC Adopts Model VoIP Bill
Opinion -The American Legislative Exchange Council's (ALEC) Telecommunications and IT Task Force in late July approved model legislation for state deregulation of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calling, in the process rejecting a controversial amendment that -
Telecom Building Boom Looms on the Horizon
Opinion -Watch for more private-sector telecom infrastructure spending this fall. That's the finding of a July survey of nearly 700 telecom industry professionals attending the NXTcomm industry forum.