Opinion
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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. -
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
