Opinion
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Chicago-Area School District Privatizes Student Bus Service
Opinion -One of the largest public school districts in Illinois has decided to hire a private company to run the district's student bus services. -
Cost of Chicago Hiring Corruption: $12 Million
Opinion -The City of Chicago has announced a $12 million settlement to pay damages for illegal hiring practices that rewarded political insiders and workers who helped with the campaigns of Mayor Richard M. Daley and candidates he supported. -
Retail Health Clinics Pick up Momentum in Tx.
Opinion -Retail health clinics are becoming increasingly popular nationwide, and the movement got a boost in Texas on February 15 when Baylor Health Care System and MedBasics announced a formal collaboration. -
Identifying the Uninsured
Opinion -Excerpted from Understanding the Uninsured and What to Do About Them, by the Council for Affordable Insurance, March 2007--the first of a several-part series. Every year, the U.S. Census Bureau reports the number of uninsured has grown--reaching 46. -
Supreme Court: EPA Must Explain Why Carbon Dioxide Is Not a Pollutant
Opinion -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must either regulate carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases or give a reasonable explanation for why it cannot or will not do so, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on April 2 in a 5 to 4 decision. -
Fears of Melting Polar Ice Are Discredited
Opinion -Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are losing little if any ice mass, thus having very little impact on global sea level, results from several recent studies show. -
Associate State Climatologist Fired for Exposing Warming Myths
Opinion -University of Washington climate scientist Mark Albright was dismissed on March 12 from his position as associate state climatologist, just weeks after exposing false claims of shrinking glaciers in the Cascade Mountains. -
Food Irradiation: A Healthy Secret
Opinion -This article is the twelfth 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. -
Outdated Federal ‘Gender Equity’ Program Illustrates Need for More School Choice
Opinion -In its 2008 budget proposal, the Bush administration proposed cutting 44 U.S. Department of Education programs to save approximately $2.2 billion annually. One of these was the Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA), funded at $3 million per year. -
School Choice Bill Gets Hearing in Oregon House
Opinion -A mostly black delegation of citizens from Portland traveled to the Oregon state capitol on April 5 to testify in support of House Bill 3010. -
Scientists Urge Gore to Cool His Global Warming Rhetoric
Opinion -While basking in the afterglow of having his movie, An Inconvenient Truth, awarded an Oscar, former vice president Al Gore is finding his rhetorical flourishes on the subject of global warming aren't always welcome, even among his supporters in the -
Commentary: When Will We Tire of the Fear Mongers?
Opinion -I have noticed throughout my life that there barely has been a day the news media was not trumpeting a foreboding event, an impending environmental danger, or some risky food or technological hazard clearly intended to generate fear. -
IPCC Fourth Assessment Dampens Global Warming Alarmism
Opinion -On February 2, the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released an 18-page Summary for Policymakers of its yet-to-be-published (at press time) Fourth Assessment Report on global warming. -
Ohio Governor Proposes Striking Choice from Budget
Opinion -Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland (D) wants 3,000 students to go back to failing schools. In unveiling his two-year, $52. -
NewSchools Venture Fund Reaches $100 Million Landmark
Opinion -One year short of its 10th anniversary, NewSchools Venture Fund--a California-based organization that raises venture capital for education entrepreneurs--has raised $100 million in total over the past decade. -
Chicago Secretly Plans to Sell Assets to Fund 2016 Summer Olympics
Opinion -Months after Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley began promising taxpayers they would not foot the bill for the 2016 Olympics, the city secretly drafted a plan to sell public assets to help fund the Games and pledged to cover $500 million in any losses. -
Medicaid Spending Surges in 2007
Opinion -Medicaid spending is expected to grow more than 6 percent in 2007, according to the latest projections from the Congressional Budget Office and the U.S. -
Bills to Restrict Tax Competition Draw Ire
Opinion -Two U.S. lawmakers have presented legislation attacking tax competition among nations, causing worry the legislation, if it becomes law, would damage the U.S. economy and hurt developing nations. -
Often Right: Economist Exposes Distortions, Misunderstandings about Income and Wealth
Opinion -"There is an endless flood of gloomy books and newspaper articles creating an absurdly false impression that the 1970s were the good old days while the period from 1983 to 2006 has only been good for the top 1 percent," says Alan Reynolds, author of -
Some Choose to Ignore, Deny Problem
Opinion -The amounts of money involved and the potential reaction to the tax consequences of having to fund government retiree health care and other post-employment benefits in addition to pensions are so great that some government officials are looking for ways -
Hospitals Can Lower Infection Rates
Opinion -The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Massachusetts-based Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) have provided guidelines and suggestions that could decrease hospital-acquired infections. -
Health Care Is Not a Right
Opinion -Health care is not a right. One cannot have a right to other people's services; those must be provided voluntarily. -
Supreme Court Decision Provokes Sharp Reactions
Opinion -The U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 decision in Massachusetts v. EPA provoked sharp reactions from the four justices in the minority and from legal observers. Chief Justice John Roberts, in a sharply worded dissent, noted global warming "is not a problem ... -
Greenland Glacier Survived Warmer Temperatures
Opinion -Greenland's ice sheet is no closer to melting than that of Antarctica, indicates a study reported by five scientists at Britain's University of Southampton in the March 8 issue of Nature magazine.
