Opinion
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Black Activists Call for Eminent Domain Restrictions in Virginia
Opinion -The push to restrict the use of eminent domain for private development in Virginia is getting an extra shove from black activists worried the homes and businesses of minorities could be the main targets of real estate developers and local governments -
4,000 Rally to Support School Vouchers
Opinion -Speaking to a crowd of 4,000 parents, students, and educators gathered at the Florida state capitol in Tallahassee on February 15, Florida Gov. -
Researchers to Study Milwaukee Choice Program
Opinion -The School Choice Demonstration Project (SCDP) at Georgetown University will conduct a five-year longitudinal study of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP), the nation's oldest and largest school voucher program for low-income families. -
GM, Ford Introduce New Ethanol-Powered Vehicles
Opinion -General Motors and Ford Motor Company have begun selling new "flex-fuel" ethanol vehicles that run on 85 percent ethyl alcohol. -
Michigan Gov. Backs off Pledge to Cut Mercury
Opinion -Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) is pleasing consumers but angering environmental activists by refusing to implement stringent mercury reductions she had promised prior to her election in 2002. -
Health Risks of Ozone Are Exaggerated – Part 1 in a series
Opinion -Rethinking America's Ozone Policy In the first of a series of four articles, Joel Schwartz, an air quality scientist at the American Enterprise Institute, shows where national ozone policy has gone wrong and how we can achieve healthy air at a far lower -
Maine Voters Will Weigh in on TABOR
Opinion -Citizens of Maine will have the chance to limit taxes and spending when they go to the polls this November 7. -
Project Pushes 10 Resolutions
Opinion -This year, the State Legislative Advisory Project is asking state legislators to pass the following resolutions: 1. Encourage the U.S. Congress to pass meaningful tax reform. 2. Support Judge Alito's Nomination to the U.S. -
California Pre-K Plan in Trouble
Opinion -Californians won't vote until June on television-actor-turned-movie-director Rob Reiner's initiative to create statewide, government-funded, universal preschool. But his "Preschool for All" ballot proposal, Prop. -
Oregon Supreme Court Upholds Law Protecting Property Rights
Opinion -The Oregon Supreme Court on February 21 unanimously upheld Measure 37, a property rights protection act approved by voters in the 2004 election, determining it does not violate the Oregon Constitution. -
Wash. Retreats from Pesticide Notice Rule
Opinion -In the face of reported disinterest and outright opposition, the Washington state Department of Agriculture has withdrawn a proposal to require farmers to notify all area schools, nursing homes, hospitals, and day care centers when applying pesticides on -
Revolutionary Mercury Reduction Technology May Be At Hand
Opinion -Scientists disagree on whether the mercury released by U.S. power plants poses a real threat to human health, but the political reality is that coal-fired power plants must reduce their mercury emissions by at least 70 percent by 2018. -
Congress Considers Uniform Food Warning Laws
Opinion -Congress is considering legislation that would require states to seek federal permission before requiring food warning labels not required by the federal government. -
Calif. Estimates of Uninsured Too High: Study
Opinion -It is often estimated that roughly 20 percent of all Californians--about 7 million people--lacked health insurance at some point in 2004. -
McDonald’s Responds to Nutrition, Obesity Concerns
Opinion -McDonald's Corporation, the largest restaurant chain in the world, has begun putting nutritional information on the packaging of its food. The initiative was rolled out at the Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy. -
A Conversation with the Senate’s ‘Most Dangerous Creature’
Opinion -There's a reason nationally syndicated columnist George Will recently wrote Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) is "the most dangerous creature that can come to the Senate." As Will noted, Coburn is "someone simply uninterested in being popular. -
After Years of Doomsday Diatribes, Worldwatch Institute Finally Gets it Right
Opinion -For many years, I have been reading the annual reports issued by The Worldwatch Institute on the state of the world's environment. -
Animal Rights Activists Convicted in NJ Federal Court
Opinion -Six animal rights activists were convicted in federal court in Trenton, New Jersey on March 3 of orchestrating a campaign of aggressive harassment and veiled death threats against persons associated with a pharmaceutical company. -
Balances in HSAs Approach $1 Billion
Opinion -Since their inception two years ago, health savings accounts (HSAs) have grown to almost $1 billion in tax-advantaged funds, according to an Inside Consumer-Directed Care (ICDC) report. -
Congress Considers Tougher Eco-Terror Laws
Opinion -Revelations of violence and intense intimidation against persons tenuously associated with a New Jersey-based pharmaceutical company have reinvigorated support in Congress for the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, which Sen. -
Creating a Voice for Choice
Opinion -Editor's note: In late October of last year, Virginia Walden Ford executive director of D.C. -
Editorial: Good News Swept Under Rug on Earth Day
Opinion -April 22 marks the activist-styled "Earth Day," when every environmental Chicken Little with an axe to grind takes to the media and proclaims the ecological sky is falling. -
Federal Bill Could Create National Food Standards
Opinion -A piece of legislation designed to create a uniform set of safety regulations for all packaged food passed the U.S. House of Representatives on March 8 and was pending a hearing in the U.S. Senate at press time. -
Government Anti-Obesity Efforts Achieve Little Success
Opinion -Swimsuit season is upon us, and millions of Americans are once again fighting the Battle of the Bulge. But can big government help us fit into new bikinis or Speedos? They're trying, with anti-obesity efforts increasing at all levels of government.