Opinion
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An Opposing View
Opinion -Our national priorities are horribly out of whack when it comes to BP, energy and the environment. BP proposes to increase its refinery capacity 15 percent by tapping the practically unlimited oil available in the tar sands of Canada. -
To Sue or Not to Sue?
Opinion -Two North Shore residents are suing ComEd because the August 23 storm caused multiday power outages. ComEd is taking a bum rap. Trees also fell on houses, automobiles, lawns and shrubbery. Is ComEd to blame for those too? -
Federal Reserve Bank Encourages Irresponsible Borrowing
Opinion -The Federal Reserve Bank is attempting to intrude the government further into the finance market by calling upon mortgage lenders to become lenient regarding repayment terms (“Fed Calls for Loan Leniency,” Sept. 5). -
Global Warming Put to the Test
Opinion -(Chicago, Illinois - September 11, 2007) The debate over whether global warming is natural and moderate, or man-made and likely to be catastrophic, has reached a fevered pitch. -
Global Warming Not Threat to Egypt
Opinion -The August 22 article “Global warming causing Mediterranean Sea to rise, threatening Egypt’s lush Nile Delta” contains exaggerated statements that deserve correction. -
Nationwide Cutting Florida Renewals
Opinion -It is astonishing for the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation to claim that the Citizens Property Insurance Corporation is increasing competition in the state(“Nationwide Cutting Fla. Renewals,” Aug. 20). -
Global Warming Alarmists Use Carbon Copy Responses
Opinion -The Capital Times Web page asserts "we do not print letters that have been generated from advocacy Web sites or organizations." Apparently, global warming activist groups do not respect the Times' policy. In an Aug. -
Global Warming Alarmism Threatens Economic Prosperity
Opinion -Thank you for publishing Mr. Samuelson’s article on global warming [“Greenhouse Simplicities” August 20]. Climate change is an important issue these days and not because we are heading for a climate cataclysm, as Al Gore suggests. -
Smart Growth Opportunities Are Dumb for African-Americans
Opinion -The Urban League, one of the nation's most prestigious African-American organizations, just concluded a highly successful national conference. -
Quality Teachers
Opinion -Peg Tyre rightly pointed out that “poor schools become a dumping ground for green teachers,”[“The Blackboard Bungles,” Sept. -
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.
