Opinion
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Texas Repeals Telecom Tax
Opinion -Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) in June signed House Bill 735, eliminating the Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund (TIF) tax in September 2008. -
IP Video Is Cable TV, Judge Rules
Opinion -A federal judge ruled in late July that AT&T's U-verse, which delivers video programming to homes using the Internet protocol, is a cable TV service, not an information service. -
Schools Can’t Use Race to Assign Students, Court Says
Opinion -In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 28 that states cannot use racial quotas to assign students to schools in an effort to achieve diverse student bodies--the first time the Court has addressed the issue in K-12 education. -
Teachers Like Denver for Merit Pay Program
Opinion -The incentives in Denver's new performance pay plan appear to have piqued the interest of teachers, according to new data released by the school district in June. -
Iowa Expands School Choice
Opinion -Less than a year after its launch, Iowa's nonpublic school choice program received a significant boost on May 29 when Gov. -
Florida Will Omit Vital NCLB Information Due to Scoring Error
Opinion -Due to an inability to accurately determine the learning gains of fourth graders--a vital component of the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)--Florida's Department of Education will exclude the data from its calculation of the state's school grades -
Schools Spend All They Can Get, Study Shows
Opinion -In conducting a study to determine whether consolidating school districts would save Michigan taxpayers money, a researcher found evidence showing school officials spend as much money as they can. -
Choice Schools Teach Civic Values Better than Traditional Public Schools
Opinion -Many Americans believe public schooling is essential not only for teaching core subjects such as reading and math, but also for imparting civic values such as patriotism and respect for the rights of others. -
School Choice Expands in Nebraska
Opinion -In late May, Nebraska lawmakers expanded parents' education options within a new, more equalized funding structure, while fixing a law that some critics said segregated schools. By signing Legislative Bill 641 on May 24, Gov. -
Author Seeks to Radicalize Adult Education Programs
Opinion -Teaching Defiance: Stories and Strategies for Activist Educators Michael Newman San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006 305 pages, hardcover, ISBN 0-7878-8556-2; $35 This is a book that seeks to transform adult education--all those courses aiming either -
What Can We Learn from the Universal Voucher Law in Utah?
Opinion -Finally, the nation has a universal voucher plan that will answer all the difficult questions about school choice--or will it? -
Lottery Money Hurts School Funding
Opinion -Prior to the adoption of the North Carolina state-run lottery in 2005 by a controversial, razor-thin vote margin (two senators were conveniently absent at the final vote), supporters loudly proclaimed the many merits of a government-sponsored numbers -
Chicago Mayor Is Scolded for Global Warming Hypocrisy
Opinion -Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) was slammed on Capitol Hill June 20 for being all talk and no action regarding greenhouse gas emissions. -
Greenland Was Much Warmer in Recent Past
Opinion -A new study of Greenland's ice sheet shows the Earth's temperature a few hundred thousand years ago was approximately 15 degrees Celsius warmer than it is today, contradicting assertions by global warming alarmists that current temperatures are -
IPCC Records Show Thousands of Review Comments Ignored
Opinion -In a historic move, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released the expert review comments and responses to its latest assessment of the science of climate change. -
CAFE Battle Rages on Capitol Hill
Opinion -Fuel economy standards are being vigorously debated in Congress. Competing corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards threaten to reduce consumer choice among family vehicles and impose significant new financial and safety costs on U.S. consumers. -
History Shows Carbon Caps a Failed Policy
Opinion -This is the second in a three-part series exploring how industry, and society at large, should respond to predicted climate change. -
Timber Companies Exonerated, Barred Owls Blamed for Spotted Owl Decline
Opinion -Environmentalists are quick to lecture the rest of us about the ways of nature. Don't clean the dead trees off the forest floor; they're natural. Cattle and horses on the range aren't native, so let the grizzlies and wolves devour them; it's natural. -
Green Activists Hurt the World’s Poor: An Interview with Paul Driessen
Opinion -Paul Driessen is a warrior on the front lines of the battle against Third World poverty and disease. -
EPA’s Treatment of Data, Models Is Worrisome
Opinion -In late June 2007, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) responded to a three-year-old data quality correction request filed by the U.S. -
ACLU Fires Back
Opinion -Although Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) grabbed the spotlight with his attack on TV violence, little noticed at the time was a proposal by Sen. -
Infographics: Today’s IT News in Pictures
Opinion -Muni Wireless Promises A survey of members of the International Economic Development Council, a nonprofit association of economic development professionals, revealed a substantial disparity between the expectations many had for municipal wireless -
Wisconsin County to Use Technology to Speed Delivery of Emergency Care
Opinion -An ambitious project to electronically link all emergency rooms in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin launched on June 20--the first of its kind nationwide. -
Dual-Tracking System for Rx Drugs Would Improve Medical Care
Opinion -Excerpted from the booklet More Choices, Better Health: Free to Choose Experimental Drugs, by Bartley J. Madden--the last in a several-part series. The complete booklet is available at http://www.heartland.org.