Opinion
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Medina, Ohio Should Be Wary of Muni Broadband
Opinion -It seems as if Medina, Ohio officials are relying on the “Field of Dreams” economic development model--“if you build it, they will come”--when promoting a proposed municipal-owned broadband Internet service. -
Disintermediation Is Not a Case for Antitrust
Opinion -After years of taking flak for refusing to support open standards, Microsoft recently announced it would do so ... and promptly got threatened with another antitrust lawsuit. Adobe v. Microsoft? -
Kentucky First State to Implement New Medicaid Reform Plan
Opinion -In early May, Kentucky became the first state to redesign its Medicaid benefits under provisions in the federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA), signed by President George W. Bush in February. -
NJ Bed Tax Scuttled
Opinion -A proposal to impose a bed tax on all 74 hospitals that operate in partnership with the New Jersey state government failed in June when state Senate President Richard Codey (D-West Orange) declared to reporters, "The hospital bed tax, it's in the morgue -
Senate Opens ‘Massive Hole’ in Drug Importation Ban
Opinion -On July 13, the U.S. Senate unanimously approved a $32.8 billion FY 2007 appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security. The measure includes a controversial provision that would prohibit U.S. -
CDC Recommends HPV Vaccination for Young Girls
Opinion -The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) voted June 29 to recommend that a vaccine for the human papillomavirus (HPV), approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) earlier in -
Health Care Reform Advocates Directory
Opinion -Organizations American Enterprise Institute 1150 17th Street NW Washington, DC 20036 phone 202/207-0190 fax 202/862-7177 http://www.aei. -
Physicist Proposes New Solution for Global Warming
Opinion -In the summer blockbuster of 1998, Armageddon, Bruce Willis led a crew of courageous malcontents on a space expedition to destroy an asteroid on a collision course with the Earth. -
Eco-Misanthropes Want Better Living Through Mass Death
Opinion -Most ecologists want to make life easy for butterflies and waterfalls. Who can argue with that? Some environmental extremists, however, think what the Earth really needs is fewer people. In some cases, billions fewer. No Better than Bacteria? -
Wash. State Exceeded Its Spending Limit
Opinion -On June 9 Snohomish County (Washington) Superior Court Judge James Allendoerfer filed a letter with the court indicating he believes the state exceeded its spending limit. -
Federal Deficit Falling as Economy Climbs
Opinion -Surging tax receipts have caused the federal budget deficit to drop more than 16 percent over the past year, in a period of tax rate cuts and high levels of government spending, according to reports released in June by the Congressional Budget Office -
Washington State Workers Win Back Their Jobs
Opinion -Ten Washington state employees who were forced from their jobs for refusing to pay union dues are back at work. In June the state employees settled their class-action lawsuit against the Washington Federation of State Employees (WFSE). -
Rhode Island Enacts Pro-Taxpayer Reform Package
Opinion -Thanks to lawmakers who in June enacted a package of tax and spending reforms that were quickly signed into law by Gov. Donald L. -
Kentucky Seeks State Control of Wetlands Program
Opinion -A June 5 meeting of a Kentucky Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet task force indicated the state is well on its way to assuming control of the Federal Clean Water Act Section 404 program for wetlands in the state. -
No Global Warming
Opinion -According to Al Gore's new film "An Inconvenient Truth," we're in for "a planetary emergency": melting ice sheets, huge increases in sea levels, more and stronger hurricanes, and invasions of tropical disease, among other cataclysms--unless we change the -
Heavy Diet of Falsehoods About Food
Opinion -Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know about Fast Food by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson Houghton Mifflin, May 2006 270 pages, $16.00 cloth, ISBN 0618710310 Available on Amazon. -
Black Clouds and Silver Linings
Opinion -This article is the fourth 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. -
Gore Movie Is Gorgeous Propaganda, Misrepresentation
Opinion -A friend invited me to attend a screening of "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore's new film about global warming, when it first arrived in Chicago a few weeks ago. -
House Passes Sweeping Telecom Reform
Opinion -On June 8 the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill reforming the nation's video programming and telecommunications markets. -
Proposal Would Help Self-Employed
Opinion -U.S. Reps. Melissa Hart (R-PA) and Don Manzullo (R-IL) are working to build support for a bill they introduced that would level the playing field between employees of corporations and the self-employed when it comes to purchasing health insurance. -
Medicaid Commission Overlooks Private Financing Options
Opinion -The Medicaid Commission--a 30-member committee appointed by U.S. -
$10 Billion Lottery Proposal Stalls in Illinois
Opinion -A proposal by Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) to increase funding for public education by selling or leasing the state lottery for $10 billion may be headed nowhere. -
After 100 Years, Telecom Tax Is No More
Opinion -The U.S. Treasury Department will stop collecting the 3 percent telephone tax, more than 100 years after the end of the Spanish American War, the conflict the tax was levied to fund. -
Bush Tax Cuts: Rhetoric and Reality
Opinion -Since George W. Bush became president in 2001, Congress has enacted a series of tax cuts on just about every type of federal tax, from excise taxes to income taxes to the estate tax. Those cuts have not occurred without controversy.
