Opinion
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It’s Video By Any Other Name
Opinion -In December, Comedy Central announced plans to air on prime time TV a show first produced by start-up wireless carrier Amp’d Mobile Inc. -
Medicare Book Informs and Amuses
Opinion -Medicare Meets Mephistopheles By David Hyman Washington, DC: Cato Institute Press, 2006 138 pages, paperback, ISBN: 1930865902, $9.95 The road to hell, we're told, is paved with good intentions. -
A Detailed Look at the Atlanta Traffic Proposal
Opinion -The joint Reason Foundation-Georgia Public Policy Foundation report on ways to reduce traffic congestion in Atlanta includes the following recommendations: Build a network of variably priced toll lanes to be added to the entire freeway system, instead -
Media Advisory: Experts Criticize IPCC Decision to Withhold Global Warming Report
Opinion -(Chicago, Illinois - February 1, 2007) On Friday, February 2, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is expected to release a summary of its Fourth Assessment Working Group 1 Report, which is expected to revise previous assessments -
Princeton President Caving in to Global Warming Junk Science
Opinion -In the 50 years since receiving my degree in geological engineering, I have tried to stay on top of climate change issues. -
Acid Rain, Nitrogen Scares Debunked
Opinion -This article is the eighth in a continuing series excerpted from the book Smoke or Steam: A Guide to Environmental, Regulatory and Food Safety Concerns, by Samuel Aldrich, excerpted and abridged by Jay Lehr. -
Pocketbook Issues Were Key to November 2006 Election
Opinion -In politics, election results usually are known within a few hours after the polls close, but the real story often takes more time to emerge. So it has been with the November 2006 contest. -
Newest Sin Tax Targets: Soft Drinks, Vending Machines, Drive-Throughs
Opinion -West Virginia lawmakers passed a series of bills during a special session in November 2006 that would raise the sales tax on soft drinks and vending machine items to 6 percent while reducing the food tax to 3 percent by 2008. -
Restaurants Sue to Block S.F. Mandate
Opinion -The Golden Gate Restaurant Association (GGRA), a nonprofit trade group representing the restaurant industry in the San Francisco area, filed a federal lawsuit on November 8 to strike down a San Francisco city ordinance passed in July 2006. -
AHIP Recommends Universal Health Accounts
Opinion -Health care analysts say a push for a federal universal health insurance program is increasingly likely as Democrats have assumed control of Congress. -
Florida Commission Upgrades Manatee Status
Opinion -In response to successful efforts in recent years to protect and expand the state's manatee population, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission on November 10 released a draft management plan overseeing the reclassification of manatees from -
British Lord Demands End to Climate Science Censorship
Opinion -Lord Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount of Brenchley and a member of the Upper House of the British legislature, has sent a letter to Sens. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and John D. -
Little Ice Age May Return Soon, Russian Scientists Say
Opinion -A gradual decline in global temperatures will begin by 2015, with temperatures bottoming out in Little Ice Age conditions during a 60-year period beginning around 2060, researchers with the Russian Academy of Sciences have concluded. -
ALEC Offers Model Bill on Tower Siting
Opinion -The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Model Wireless Communications Tower Siting Act sets guidelines and limits for municipalities on the regulation of new and existing wireless towers and antennas. -
Locals Set Example for State on Telephone Taxes
Opinion -This past election day, two key cities in Silicon Valley voted to reject sky-high telephone taxes. If state lawmakers don’t heed the rising voice of residents, they may have to answer to a new telephone tax revolt in California. -
New Jersey Pension System Needs ‘Serious Restructuring’: Governor
Opinion -Soaring government pension costs have prompted New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine (D) to call for "serious restructuring" of the state's government employee pension system. In a December 19 interview with reporter David W. -
Illinois Pension Debt Deepens
Opinion -A year after allegations of a huge extortion and kickback scheme against Illinois' government pension system grabbed headlines across the state, the state's pension system has slipped deeper into financial trouble, according to a prominent state senator -
Consumer Power Report #67
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 -
States, Feds Look to Hike Minimum Wage
Opinion -The stage is set for 2007 to be a hot year in the debate over raising the minimum wage. In November 2006, voters in six states approved initiatives to increase their minimum wages. Illinois lawmakers approved a minimum wage hike in November. -
Pressure Grows to End Binding Arbitration with Government Unions
Opinion -People from coast to coast apparently are coming to realize the harm to taxpayers that can be caused by allowing binding arbitration with government employee unions. -
Illinois Law Causes Beer Battle
Opinion -Rigid state franchise laws may be to blame for Bell's Beer, a highly respected craft beer brewed in Kalamazoo, Michigan, disappearing from Illinois bar taps and stock shelves. -
New Tax Law Expands and Improves HSAs
Opinion -On December 20, President George W. -
Policy Experts Reject Proposal to List Polar Bears as Threatened
Opinion -U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne proposed on December 27 that polar bears be listed as a "threatened" species, not because their populations are currently in decline but because global warming may threaten them in the future. -
Congress OKs Energy Recovery in Central Gulf
Opinion -On the final day of its 2006 session, Congress approved legislation opening 8.3 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico to oil and natural gas recovery.