Opinion
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Washington State Government Workers Get Record Raises
Opinion -The current collective bargaining agreements between Washington state and its employee unions give state employees the largest raises some have ever seen. The minimum increase union-represented employees will receive is 12. -
House Leadership Breaks Rules to Pass Subsidies for Illegal Aliens in Farm Bill
Opinion -The politics behind the farm bill came into full view August 2, when the electronic scoreboard in the House showed a vote of 215-213 and the word FINAL in favor of a motion to deny illegal aliens benefits in the agriculture bill. -
Climate Science Supports Realism, Not Alarmism
Opinion -This is the third in a three-part series exploring how industry, and society at large, should respond to predicted climate change. No thinking person should feel compelled to believe climate science is settled. It is not. -
Real Scientists vs. Media Darlings
Opinion -This article is one in a continuing series excerpted from the book Smoke or Steam? A Guide to Environmental, Regulatory, and Food Safety Concerns, by Samuel Aldrich, adapted and serialized by Jay Lehr. -
Home Solar Power Fails Due to Practical Difficulties
Opinion -This article is the second in a series outlining the technological and economic obstacles to the widespread use of solar power. -
School Choice Book a Quick, Compelling Read
Opinion -School Choice: The Findings By Herb Walberg Washington, DC: Cato Institute Press, 2007 110 pages, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-933955-04-5, $9. -
Absence of Choice Helps Explain Parental Dissatisfaction
Opinion -A poll released July 31 by the Strong American Schools' "ED in '08" campaign found the vast majority of voting-age Americans are deeply worried about U.S. public schools. -
Carriers Sue Iowa Telcos over ‘Traffic-Pumping’
Opinion -AT&T, Sprint Nextel, and Qwest Communications International have filed lawsuits against 14 Iowa telecommunications companies--10 rural local exchange carriers (LECs) and four other service providers--over alleged "traffic-pumping schemes" aimed at -
Congress May Act to Define Graduation Rate
Opinion -Because accurate measures of dropout and graduation rates are so important for accountability purposes, and because states and local school districts have done such a deplorable job in reporting them, Congress is poised to take serious action. Rep. -
Congress Reignites Asbestos Scare with Ban on Aggregates
Opinion -Depending on your perspective, hearing that something is "the next asbestos" fills you with either great joy or great trepidation. -
Congress to Impose Collective Bargaining
Opinion -Congress is considering imposing unionism and collective bargaining on state and local public safety departments in states that have not given public-sector unions monopoly bargaining powers. H.R. -
Court-Ordered Spending Mandates Raise Taxes, But Don’t Help Education in the Long Term
Opinion -A new report questions the effectiveness of school funding lawsuits in generating the sustained results their plaintiffs seek. -
DC Opportunity Scholarship Program’s Future in Question
Opinion -About 1,800 children in Washington, DC headed to private schools in August using tuition scholarships provided through the DC Opportunity Scholarship fund. -
Examination of NEA Records Reveals Misdeeds
Opinion -The accounting practices of the National Education Association (NEA) could be more transparent in coming years, thanks to a nearly decade-long investigation by the Landmark Legal Foundation into the union's unreported political expenditures. -
Expensive New Solar Project Announced in California
Opinion -The northern California power company Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) announced on July 25 it will purchase 550 megawatts (MW) of solar power at subsidized prices. The project is expected to receive the federal production tax credit of 1. -
Georgia Special-Needs Scholarships in High Demand
Opinion -More than 5,000 Georgia families have applied for special-needs scholarships since Gov. Sonny Perdue (R) signed the new program into law on May 18. -
Health Fears About Global Warming Are Unfounded
Opinion -Health care providers are buying into alarmist global warming theory and are concerned about the potential negative health effects of warmer temperatures, reported the August 12 Washington Post. -
Illinois Budget Approval Does Nothing to End Wild Ride
Opinion -Calls for impeachment; legislation introduced to allow voters to recall the governor and lawmakers; lawmakers calling the governor "a madman" and "insane"; $6,000 a day in air shuttle charges to take the governor from his home to the state capital; a -
Inconvenient Truth Producer Targets Children
Opinion -Unable to convince adults that global warming is a crisis, An Inconvenient Truth producer Laurie David is trying a new tactic: Indoctrinating children to pull on their parents' heartstrings. -
Maryland Court Says Charters Must Get Equal Per-Pupil Funding
Opinion -On July 31, a 7-2 majority of the Maryland Court of Appeals ruled the state's charter schools are entitled by law to the same per-pupil funding other public schools receive. -
Missouri Court Weighs Wireless Tax Proposal
Opinion -A Missouri court reportedly is close to a decision on whether the state is entitled to some $500 million in taxes from wireless phone service providers. -
Mo. Fire District Is Challenging Pension Law
Opinion -The Mehlville, Missouri Fire Protection District Board of Directors has filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of legislation recently signed into law by Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt (R). -
Muni Wireless Withers in San Francisco
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National Heritage Areas Are Federal Power Grab, Pork Scheme: Coalition
Opinion -Proposed National Heritage Areas threaten property rights throughout the United States, as documented by David Ridenour, vice president of the National Center for Public Policy Research, in a congressional letter he has drafted. The U.S.
