Publications
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No. 110 Iowa Municipal Communications Systems: The Financial Track Record
Publication -Policy Studies -This report documents the financial performance of three municipal communications systems operating in Iowa: Cedar Falls, Muscatine, and Spencer. -
No. 108 Municipal Broadband: Optimistic Plan, Disappointing Reality
Publication -Policy Studies -This paper compares the financial performance of a municipal fiber-to-the-home system in Bristol, Virginia with projections made by the same consultant for a proposed fiber-to-the-home system in Lafayette, Louisiana. -
No. 106 – A Guide to Classical Liberal Think Tanks
Publication -Policy Studies -Philanthropists who want to make the world a better place to live have many choices of worthy groups and causes. -
No. 105 Municipally Owned Broadband Networks: A Critical Evaluation (Revised Edition)
Publication -Policy Studies -This analysis, revised and updated to reflect national and local changes during the past two years, finds the case for municipal ownership of broadband networks is even weaker than it was then. -
Amicus Brief: Parker v. District of Columbia
Publication -Policy Studies -The Heartland Institute filed an amicus brief with the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia urging that court to enter judgment in favor of the plaintiffs in the Heller gun case. -
No. 100 Municipally Owned Broadband Networks: A Critical Evaluation
Publication -Policy Studies -For the past two years, city officials from the Tri-Cities have been discussing ways to improve telecommunications services – telephone and cable as well as Internet access. -
No. 100 Municipally Owned Broadband Networks: A Critical Evaluation
Publication -Policy Studies -For the past two years, city officials from the Tri-Cities have been discussing ways to improve telecommunications services – telephone and cable as well as Internet access. -
No. 100 Municipally Owned Broadband Networks: A Critical Evaluation
Publication -Policy Studies -For the past two years, city officials from the Tri-Cities have been discussing ways to improve telecommunications services – telephone and cable as well as Internet access. -
No. 97 – Dreams, Plans, and Reality: A Critique of Chicago Metropolis 2020
Publication -Policy Studies -Quick Links Policy Study (pdf) Chicago Metropolis 2020, produced in 1999 by the Commercial Club, attempts to tell us who should do what to make the metropolitan area a more nearly ideal place. -
Comments on Microsoft Settlement to U.S. Department of Justice
Publication -Testimony -This comment was one of some 30,000 submitted to the U.S. Department of Justice arguing for and against acceptance of a Final Judgment resolving an antitrust case against Microsoft Corporation. It was one of only 47 letters forwarded by DOJ to the U.S. -
No. 93 – Effects of Impact Fees on the Suburban Chicago Housing Market
Publication -Policy Studies -Quick Links Policy Study (pdf) Appendices (pdf) Municipalities in suburban Chicago impose fees ranging from $2,223 to $8,942 on new four-bedroom homes. -
State Constitutional Reforms: Recent Experiences
Publication -Research and Commentaries -This document authored by Janice C. May highlights various constitutional reform efforts in the decade of the 1990's.Term limits on state legislators were just one of many popular reforms considered during the decade. -
No. 83 The States vs. The Tobacco Industry: Smoke and Assorted Mirrors (full text – pdf)
Publication -Policy Studies -Between 1994 and 1997, more than twenty state attorneys general have filed lawsuits against major tobacco companies seeking reimbursements for the billions of dollars paid by state governments through Medicaid and other programs dealing with the -
No. 69 Taking Aim at Gun Control
Publication -Policy Studies -It is commonly estimated that more than 20,000 federal, state, and local firearms laws are on the books in this country, and more are being written all the time. There is little evidence that these laws have restrained crime. -
No. 54 The Killing Can Be Stopped
Publication -Policy Studies -In 1992, the city of Chicago was reeling from the shooting death of Dantrell Davis, a 7-year-old boy caught in the crossfire of gangs battling for control of the city's notorious Cabrini Green public housing project. -
No. 34 Partisan Gerrymandering: Harms and a New Solution
Publication -Policy Studies -In Part I of this Heartland Policy Study, the authors describe gerrymandering as a real, not illusory, danger to democratic practice -- the moral equivalent of stealing elections. -
No. 34 Partisan Gerrymandering: Harms and a New Solution
Publication -Policy Studies -In Part I of this Heartland Policy Study, the authors describe gerrymandering as a real, not illusory, danger to democratic practice -- the moral equivalent of stealing elections. -
No. 15 Corrections and the Private Sector: A Guide for Public Officals
Publication -Policy Studies -Faced with rising prison populations, court-mandated reforms, and voter rejection of bond issues, many government agencies are investigating the potential of private sector corrections services.
