Opinion
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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. -
Ozone Plan Ignores Foreign Sources
Opinion -On June 20 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to tighten the nation's air quality standards for ground-level ozone, revising them for the first time since 1997. Not everyone is pleased. -
Congress Considers Carbon Trading
Opinion -Carbon dioxide (CO2) trading is being championed by nearly a dozen proposals floating around Congress during the summer recess, but the failure of Europe's trading scheme is keeping most Congressmen skeptical as the 2007-2008 session approaches. -
Environmental Activists Are Enemies of the Poor
Opinion -"People here have no jobs," Mark Fenn admitted, after taking documentary producers on a tour of his $35,000 catamaran and the site of his new coastal home. -
South Carolina Creates Statewide Internet-Based Learning Program
Opinion -Virtual learning just makes sense, says Robb Streeter, principal of South Carolina's Cross High School. "We shop online, bank online, do everything else online, so why not go to school online?" Streeter said. -
Toledo Wises Up on Municipal WiFi System
Opinion -Citywide wireless Internet systems have been the hot new accessory for municipal officials for the past couple of years. As with other technology ventures, however, a rush to use city funds to pursue the latest technological fad has led to problems. -
Congress Questions FCC’s Digital TV Plan
Opinion -Congressional Democrats have put the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on the defensive after questioning whether the regulator is doing enough to educate consumers on the federally mandated national transition to digital television (DTV) slated -
Book Review: Economics Explained Enjoyably
Opinion -Bulls Don't Blush, Bears Don't Die Barry Asmus AmeriPress, 2006 365 pages, hardcover, ISBN: 978-0970987327, $44.50 available online through Amazon. -
Solar Power Presents Many Hurdles to Consumers
Opinion -This article is the first in a series outlining the technological and economic obstacles to the widespread use of solar power. It all sounds so simple. -
Regulations Cause Unintended Consequences
Opinion -This article is the fourteenth 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. -
Cities Scrap Municipal Wireless Plans
Opinion -Anchorage, Alaska and Corona, California have discontinued their municipal wireless projects after MetroFi, the private industry partner in both cities, said it could not offer free service without a commitment from each municipality to be an "anchor -
Lawmakers Reject Fairness Doctrine
Opinion -Abandoned some 20 years ago, the "Fairness Doctrine"--requiring public and privately owned broadcasters to provide airtime to opposing political and social viewpoints--briefly reared its head again on Capitol Hill in May and June. -
A Modest Proposal: Let Consumers Know Costs
Opinion -Consumers have an insatiable appetite to learn more about all things related to their health. Last year, some 113 million of them used the Internet to get health information. -
A Sampling of Responses to the FCC
Opinion -Here's a sampling from the formal filings of responses to the FCC's NOI on broadband industry practices and network neutrality. For more excerpts, visit http://www.heartland.org. -
ALEC: No ‘Net Tax
Opinion -In a joint resolution of its Telecom and IT and Tax and Fiscal Policy task forces, the American Legislative Exchange Council in late July called for a permanent moratorium on Internet access taxes. The current moratorium, instituted by the U.S. -
Biotech Crops Good for the Environment
Opinion -A new study reported in the July 8 issue of Science magazine shows crops genetically modified to resist insects and other pests are having a beneficial effect on the environment.
