Opinion
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States Eye Open Source Software Rules
Opinion -Three states are looking to legislate procurement and use of computer software formats for document storage, triggering a new round of debate over whether such laws actually benefit citizens and save money or simply provide a government-aided advantage -
Tax Burden Puts Georgia at a Disadvantage
Opinion -Georgia’s tax burden was 10.4 percent of income in 2006, which ranked the state 25th nationally, according to a Tax Foundation study released January 30, 2007. -
Taxpayers Cry Foul as AMT Affects Millions of Americans
Opinion -Over the past three Congresses, the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) has morphed from a little-known "stealth tax" into a widely known, highly discussed, and almost universally despised parallel income tax system with unintended consequences. -
Telecom Taxes Are Unduly Harsh, Regressive: Study
Opinion -Taxes and fees imposed on cable TV and phone services in 59 U.S. cities cost the average household approximately $264 a year, according to a new report from a team of researchers at The Heartland Institute and Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University. -
Telecom Taxes Are Unduly Harsh, Regressive: Study
Opinion -Taxes and fees imposed on cable TV and phone services in 59 U.S. cities cost the average household approximately $264 a year, according to a new report from a team of researchers at The Heartland Institute and Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University. -
Today’s IT news in pictures
Opinion -Telephone companies were providing video service to almost 2.7 million customers as of year-end 2006, according to Emerging Media Dynamics. -
U.S. K-12 Schools Fail to Prepare Students: Report
Opinion -The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, American Enterprise Institute, and Center for American Progress jointly released a report at the end of February showing the poor state of public education nationwide. -
Utah Voucher Opponents Move to Block Program
Opinion -In early April, opponents of Utah's new universal voucher law began announced they had enough petition signatures to get a referendum to repeal it. -
Vouchers for At-Risk Students Proposed in Texas
Opinion -On March 9, Texas state Sen. Kyle Janek (R-Houston) introduced Senate Bill 1506, which would allow the State Comptroller's office to give students vouchers to "escape poor-performing, inadequate, or unsafe schools. -
Vouchers for Special-Needs Students Fail in Committee of Virginia Legislature
Opinion -The Virginia House Appropriations Committee defeated Senate Bill 1419, the Tuition Assistance Grants for Children with Disabilities Act, by a 13-7 vote on February 16. -
WiMax Gets Ready for Prime Time
Opinion -WiMax--the wide area, meshed, broadband radio network technology that has been discussed for a long time as "just a few years away"--is finally coming to fruition. -
Is Global Warming a Sin?
Opinion -In a couple of hundred years historians will be comparing the frenzies over our supposed human contribution to global warming to the tumults at the latter end of the tenth century as the Christian millennium approached. -
Consumer Power Report #79
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 -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #6-4
Opinion -Brother, Can You Spare 450,000 Dimes? Three homeless men in Las Vegas arrested under a city law banning "sleeping too close to a pile of feces" have received a $45,000 settlement of their lawsuit against the city. -
Heartland Applauds Georgia’s Special-Needs Voucher Bill
Opinion -"The Georgia legislature's passage of a voucher program that gives parents of disabled students the option to choose a private school adds momentum to one of the most positive trends in education policy-making. -
Consumer Power Report #78
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 -
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. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #6-3
Opinion -Lawyers Feast on Tainted Pet Food The number of deaths of dogs and cats allegedly caused by kidney failure allegedly caused by pet food allegedly tainted with wheat gluten allegedly containing rat poison and allegedly coming from China or the United -
Sacrificing the School Choices of 3,000 Kids Won’t Save Ohio Big Bucks
Opinion -Ted Strickland's first media buy in his 2006 campaign for governor of Ohio was on Christian radio stations. His commercial quoted a verse from the Book of Micah urging one "to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with our God. -
Phony Science Begets Phony Public Policy
Opinion -The public has become increasingly aware that the science behind man-made global warming is a fraud. But maybe Americans like bogus science in pursuit of certain public policy objectives. Let’s look at it. -
Consumer Power Report #77
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 -
Why Can’t We Recruit Teachers the Same Way
Opinion -Dear Editor: It's great that the Chicago Public Schools system is aggressively recruiting talented young principals from across the country ["Clone this principal," April 9]. -
Adults Exercise Restraint
Opinion -Dear Editor: John McCarron wants an adult to offer a "tax compromise" for Illinois ["Wanted: Adult with a tax compromise," April 9.] How about an adult to offer spending restraint? -
Leftist Hate: Gore Fans Abuse, Threaten Gore Foes
Opinion -The Tennessee Center for Policy Research recently generated headlines when it announced that former Vice President Al Gore's Nashville estate "devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours" of electricity in 2006, "more than 20 times the national average.
