Opinion
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Physicians Lose Jobs to Nurse Practitioners at Suburban Health Clinics
Opinion -On April 1, the Edwards-Elmhurst Hospital Health system will replace fifteen physicians at seven immediate care clinics in the Chicago suburbs with lower-cost nurse practitioners (NPs). -
Heartland Institute Education Expert Reacts to President Trump’s State of the Union Address
Opinion -President Trump in his State of the Union address made perhaps the strongest statements in support of school choice ever in that annual speech. -
Partners in Liberty: The Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT)
Opinion -The Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) was founded in 1985 to promote a positive, alternative voice on environmental and development issues within the United States and internationally. -
House, Senate Bills Would Expand Health Savings Accounts
Opinion -In the midst of a national health-care debate over surprise billing, Medicare-for-All, the public option, and drug price transparency, a new front has been opened on Capitol Hill: expansion of health savings accounts (HSAs). -
Congress Considers Broader Protections for Corporate Whistleblowers
Opinion -The U.S. Supreme Court limited the scope of protection under existing law to employees who report wrongdoing directly to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). -
Fewer Recessions Thanks to the Shale Revolution
Opinion -The shale revolution and ramping US oil production brings a new level of stability to US and world economic systems. -
Heartland Weekly: Canceling Student Debt Would Be a Big Mistake
Opinion -Week of January 27, 2020 -
California Cities Embrace ‘Community-Choice Electricity’
Opinion -Officials in Irvine, California are inviting four other Orange County municipalities to join their city in a comprehensive government-run electric power management scheme known as a community choice aggregation or community choice energy. -
Doctors’ Salaries Are Up, But Specialists Outpace Primary-Care Physicians, New Data Show
Opinion -America’s doctors and advanced practitioners are taking home fatter paychecks, but the earnings of primary-care physicians continue to lag well behind those of their specialist colleagues, -
Pacific Research Institute Warns Americans of Dangers of Socialized Medicine
Opinion -If there is a robust discussion on the dangers of socialized medicine in the United States, chances are the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) is front and center. -
Five Reasons National School Choice Week Keeps Growing
Opinion -Here are five reasons (out of thousands!) why NSCW keeps breaking records. -
Lessons Kids Can Learn from a School Choice Pioneer
Opinion -State by state, CSAs could build on the pioneering breakthrough in school choice that Virginia Walden Ford and others achieved 15 years ago with the Opportunity Scholarships in the federal city. -
Independence Day in Britain!
Opinion -The dream of European union as a path to peace and prosperity is a worthy one. It was not, however, the actual substance of the existing European Union as a reality. -
Pennsylvania Legislators Consider Occupational Licensing Reforms
Opinion -Access to steady employment is necessary to reduce recidivism, but Pennsylvania, like many states, has made it exceedingly difficult for ex-felons to reenter the workforce. -
At Davos, Trump’s Message of Hope is Right, Alarmists’ Message is Wrong
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #349: -
Case Alleging University Mishandled Sexual Misconduct Cases Dismissed
Opinion -Title IX of the Higher Education Act requires colleges to investigate incidents of sexual misconduct as matters of discrimination. -
Waste Not, Want Not
Opinion -Though few people understand details of the “National Environmental Policy Act” (NEPA), there is a widespread sense that it is important. -
Why Should We Endorse Trump’s NEPA Reforms?
Opinion -NEPA was never intended to apply to state and local projects, and, under the U.S. Constitution’s division of powers, responsibilities, and rights, it should not be allowed to. -
Idaho’s Liberal Media Embarrass Themselves Attacking Climate Realism
Opinion -Ultimately, the Idaho Statesman and the Idaho Falls Post Register made themselves look bad by resorting to ill-informed and childish attacks against somebody invited to present information to an Idaho House of Representatives committee. -
Wisconsin Conservationists, Counties Fight Wind Energy Transmission Line
Opinion -Conservation groups and counties in Wisconsin have filed separate lawsuits to block construction within the state of a proposed multistate transmission line intended to deliver electric power from out-of-state wind farms to utilities in 12 states. -
Wind, Biofuel Win, Solar and Electric Vehicles Lose in Year-End Appropriations
Opinion -Supporters of extending a slew of tax credits for green energy technologies had to settle for considerably less than they lobbied for in the omnibus appropriations measure passed before Congress adjourned in December. -
Miss Virginia Makes the Grade
Opinion -Hollywood gives school choice a fair, positive representation. -
Hypocrites Preaching Green
Opinion -Green is good, but Steyer and his followers have yet to propose replacements for the products from deep earth fuels that contribute to ALL medications, electronic components, air travel, shipping, transportation, and commerce. -
The Thunberg Fallacies
Opinion -The IPCC fallacy is well established and widespread, including among many scientists. It is the basis for the Paris Accord. It is moderate in its way. The Thunberg fallacy is new and nuts.