Government & Politics

Federal and state legislators have recently been focusing on eliminating duplication of government programs that could be combined or eliminated to save billions of taxpayer dollars.

John Nothdurft this month was named The Heartland Institute’s new director of government relations.

The Heartland Institute is a 26-year-old national nonprofit research and education organization based in Chicago. Its mission is to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems.

Ralph Conner, The Heartland Institute’s former local legislation manger, will be remembered and honored April 20 at a memorial service at the Chicago Temple in the Loop.Mr. Conner would have been 62 years old April 20.

Harrison Schmitt, former astronaut and U.S. Senator, joined The Heartland Institute's board of directors on January 28, 2010.

Former NASA astronaut and former US senator Harrison Schmitt Oct.

One of the nation’s top accountants warned, “the most serious threat to the United States is its own fiscal irresponsibility” at a screening of a movie focused on the nation’s debt and government’s “fuzzy

A growing body of research shows there is an "optimal" size beyond which government becomes a drain on a nation's economy. And government in the United States--local, state, and federal combined--has already grown far beyond that optimal size.

As the presidential campaign builds, one thing has become apparent--the political Left in this country is aligned with Big Labor in a big way.

Former Comptroller General of the United States David M.

Obama intentionally avoided the issue of race even after winning the first primary in a state that is 96 percent white.

The issue isn’t Farrakhan. It’s about Sen. Clinton playing the race card.

Alexandria, VA-- Bill Buckley was there at the beginning. In fact in many ways he was the beginning of the modern conservative movement.

William F. Buckley, Jr., an icon of conservative ideas whose wit and wisdom conveyed a course for freedom through a turbulent era in American history, passed away peacefully at his desk on Wednesday, February 27.

In a move that has the support of conservatives and liberals in the Palmetto State, Gov. Mark Sanford (R) of South Carolina is about to implement executive order 2007-14 mandating the creation of a single searchable Web site for state expenditures.

America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It By Mark Steyn Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc. 2006 224 pages, hc, $27.95, ISBN: 0-8952-6078-6 I cannot recommend this bestselling book too highly to those who treasure our way of life.

Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't by John Lott Regnery Publishing, Inc. (June 4, 2007) 256 pages, hardcover ISBN 596985062, $27.

They say politics creates strange bedfellows. Here is another example.

In Maine, government employees receive substantially more compensation than private-sector workers, according to a new study published by The Maine Heritage Policy Center.

Representatives of 10 state and national organizations that advocate for property rights and low and fair taxation are warning members of Congress and others with influence over national policy of dire consequences if the Native Hawaiian Government

In November 2005, Washington State voters restored the state auditor's authority to conduct independent performance audits of state and local government.

The amounts of money involved and the potential reaction to the tax consequences of having to fund government retiree health care and other post-employment benefits in addition to pensions are so great that some government officials are looking for ways

While early estimates suggested state and local governments have accumulated hundreds of billions of dollars of debt in unfunded "other post-employment benefits" (OPEBs), revised estimates now indicate those early numbers may have been much too low.

Employment and wage trends in New York State since the beginning of this decade could be described as a tale of two sectors: public and private.