Opinion
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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. -
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.