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May 24, 2019
Midwestern Governors Push Major Gas Tax Hikes
Citing pressing transportation needs, three Midwestern governors – two Democrats and one Republican – are calling for significant gas tax hikes in their states.
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Health Care
May 24, 2019
Florida Removes Certificate of Need Laws
Health care consumers in Florida could soon be entering a new era of choice and competition as the state legislature has passed a bill eliminating much of the state’s certificate of need (CON) laws.
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Health Care
May 24, 2019
Judge Rules Against Association Health Plans
A federal judge struck down the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) 2018 rule that loosened regulations on association health plans (AHP), temporary group health insurance plans for small businesses and associations, which are not subject to the same require
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Government Spending
May 23, 2019
New Book Presents Solutions for Financially Insolvent Entitlement Programs
Provides straightforward explanations and direct, simple solutions to the nation’s entitlements crisis.
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Education
May 22, 2019
Congress Considers D.C. Child Safety Account Bill
H.R. 2538 would establish a Child Safety Account (CSA) program in the District of Columbia.
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Environment
May 22, 2019
Cities Turning to Non-Green Options to Handle Recyclable Material After China Halts Imports
China’s decision ban recyclable waste imports is resulting in some U.S. cities beginning to burn or bury recyclable material rather than pay the higher prices to recycling companies.
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May 24, 2019
Midwestern Governors Push Major Gas Tax Hikes
By Bonner R. Cohen
Citing pressing transportation needs, three Midwestern governors – two Democrats and one Republican – are calling for significant gas tax hikes in their states.
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May 24, 2019
Judge Rules Against Association Health Plans
A federal judge struck down the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) 2018 rule that loosened regulations on association health plans (AHP), temporary group health insurance plans for small businesses and associations, which are not subject to the same require
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May 24, 2019
Florida Removes Certificate of Need Laws
By AnneMarie Schieber
Health care consumers in Florida could soon be entering a new era of choice and competition as the state legislature has passed a bill eliminating much of the state’s certificate of need (CON) laws.
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May 23, 2019
New Book Presents Solutions for Financially Insolvent Entitlement Programs
By Jay Lehr
Provides straightforward explanations and direct, simple solutions to the nation’s entitlements crisis.
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May 22, 2019
Congress Considers D.C. Child Safety Account Bill
By Joe Barnett
H.R. 2538 would establish a Child Safety Account (CSA) program in the District of Columbia.
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May 22, 2019
Cities Turning to Non-Green Options to Handle Recyclable Material After China Halts Imports
By Kenneth Artz
China’s decision ban recyclable waste imports is resulting in some U.S. cities beginning to burn or bury recyclable material rather than pay the higher prices to recycling companies.
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May 21, 2019
Colorado Eliminates Bail for Petty Crimes
By Sarah Quinlan
Colorado has enacted a law eliminating pretrial bail for cases involving minor offenses.
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May 21, 2019
Costly Wind Power Menaces Man and Nature
By Tom Harris, Jay Lehr
The true costs of wind energy are too often (deliberately?) ignored or underestimated.
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May 21, 2019
FDA Approves Biotech Firm’s Genetically Modified Salmon Project
By Sarah Lott
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has decided to permit Massachusetts biotech firm AquaBounty to begin importing genetically modified Atlantic salmon eggs to be raised at its private, land-based facilities.
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May 20, 2019
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Applauds Letter Urging FDA Reform by U.S. Sens. Cruz, Paul, Braun, and Lee
By Tim Huelskamp, Ph.D., Christina Herrin, George Jamerson
Senators ask Food & Drug Administration to Embrace ‘Parallel Track’ for Live-saving Drugs, a Keystone of Heartland’s ‘Free to Choose Medicine’ Reform
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May 20, 2019
Government Schools: Intentionally, We Don’t Understand Math Or English
By Seton Motley
Decades of government schools (kindergarten through grade 12) have poisoned America’s intellectual well.
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May 20, 2019
Make Those Nasty Drivers Pay!
By Greg E. Walcher
Louisiana Senator Russell Long famously explained how most people feel about taxes: “Don’t tax you; don’t tax me; tax that fellow behind the tree.”
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May 20, 2019
Court Considers Challenge to Class Action Settlements
By Jeff Reynolds
Frank v. Gaos Challenges Abuse of Class Action Settlements
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May 20, 2019
Heartland Weekly: Free To Choose Medicine Offers Hope for Patients
By Jim Lakely
Week of May 13, 2019
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May 17, 2019
Generic Price Gouging Decision Upheld
By AnneMarie Schieber
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Maryland’s 2017 law that allowed the attorney general to review and regulate price increases of generic or off-patent drugs.
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May 17, 2019
Oklahoma Seeks Medicaid Audit
By AnneMarie Schieber
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt requested an audit of the state’s Medicaid program to determine whether enrollees meet federal eligibility requirements.
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May 17, 2019
More Doctors Choosing Hospitals over Private Practices
By Ashley Herzog
Physicians are increasingly leaving private practices to join hospital networks, states a new report from the Physicians Advocacy Institute.
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May 17, 2019
More States Consider Regulation to Curb Surprise Medical Bills
By AnneMarie Schieber
Following Arizona’s lead, Georgia, Texas, and Washington State are considering bans or mandated arbitration and price transparency in response to consumer complaints about surprise medical bills from out-of-network providers.
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May 17, 2019
Telemedicine Offers Remedy for Rising Travel and Wait Times
By Leo Pusateri
Travel and wait times for health care cost patients $89 billion annually, according to an analysis by Altarum, giving new vigor to legislative arguments supporting telemedicine.
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May 17, 2019
Trump Administration Proposes Major Cuts in Federal Science Programs
By Bonner R. Cohen
Setting up what is certain to be a bruising showdown with Congress over Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 spending, President Donald Trump’s budget proposal recommends significant funding reductions in science programs at a slew of federal agencies.
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May 16, 2019
Warming Temperature Measurements Polluted by Bad Data, Research Confirms
By H. Sterling Burnett
Climate Change Weekly #323
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May 15, 2019
Create Socialism Over One Product, Then We’ll Talk
By Jeffrey Tucker
That socialism as an idea could survive hundreds of years — even back to the ancient world — is a tribute to the capacity of the human mind to imagine it can create that which reality will forever decline to make possible.
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May 15, 2019
Should We Cap Credit Card Interest Rates at 15%?
By Art Carden
Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez have proposed capping credit card interest rates at 15%
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May 15, 2019
All Socialisms Are Antisocial
By Richard Ebeling
Socialism is the antisocial system of politics over people, governmental power instead of peaceful and free association, and a handful of imposed political plans instead of a pluralism of as many plans as there are people in the world.
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May 15, 2019
National Association of Arrogant Calculating Phonies
By Larry Sand
Renegade locals fight California state NAACP and national board over anti-charter school stance.
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May 15, 2019
States Should Abandon CON Laws And Put Patients First
By AnneMarie Schieber
For decades, states have had certificate-of-need (CON) laws that require health care investors to get permission from an appointed board before they can expand, purchase a new device, or offer new medical technology.
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May 15, 2019
Do NASA's Latest Figures Confirm Global Warming?
By Anthony Watts
It appears that the authors of the Susskind et al. paper were motivated by timing and opportunity. It was crafted to advance an agenda, not climate science.
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May 15, 2019
Wisconsin Professor’s Anti-Fracking Agenda Exposed
By Linnea Lueken
A professor and group of student researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire claim they found elevated particulate levels associated with frac-sand mining.
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May 14, 2019
Colorado Adopts Strict Anti-Drilling Legislation
By Linnea Lueken
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed into law sweeping oil and gas legislation which that allows imposing greater restrictions on new oil and gas exploration in the state than a proposition voters rejected in a 2018 election referendum.
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May 13, 2019
Heartland Weekly - Do NASA's Latest Figures Confirm Global Warming?
By Billy Aouste
Week of May 6, 2019
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May 13, 2019
Sorry Kids—The Next Energy Alternative Is Not Here Yet
By Ronald Stein
With present technology, renewable energy sources can’t replace energy from deep earth minerals and fuels. Global economies increase, not decrease, their use of fossil fuels each year.
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May 10, 2019
When Two Companies Control 90% Of The Market – It’s Not A Free Market
By Seton Motley
Many self-described free marketeers vociferously oppose antitrust laws.
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May 10, 2019
No, Mr. President, Tariffs Do Not Cause Prosperity
By Jeffrey Tucker
The prospect that the US president would conclude that tariffs cause growth has always been the downside of good economic numbers.
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May 10, 2019
The Weird Reality of World Climate Policy
By Alan Carlin
Climate policies vary greatly by country.
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May 9, 2019
The Fallacy of a Government Shutdown, the Reality of Freedom Lost
By Richard Ebeling
Another partial federal government “shutdown” began on December 22, 2018.
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May 9, 2019
Hey Government: Stop Looking For New Ways To Tax Us – Instead Cut Spending
By Seton Motley
The federal government is constantly setting new records for income tax money fleeced from We the People.
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May 9, 2019
L.A. City Council Votes to Require Contractors to Disclose NRA Ties
By Ashley Herzog
“The First Amendment protects the right to free speech and association"
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May 9, 2019
Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead" Shows Us That There's More to Life Than Money
By Art Carden
On this day in 1943, Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead was published. It tells the story of an impoverished architecture school dropout, Howard Roark, and how he navigates—or fails to navigate—the New York architecture scene.
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May 9, 2019
Indiana Utility Asks for Rate Hike to Replace Coal with Renewables
By Linnea Lueken
The Northern Indiana Public Service Co. filed a plan with the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission to remove coal from its electric power mix by 2028 and replace it primarily with electricity generated by solar power.
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May 8, 2019
De Blasio’s ‘Glass Skyscraper Ban’ Reveals Dark Agenda of Climate Movement
By James Taylor
While visiting Central Europe in November and December 2018 in conjunction with the United Nations climate conference in Katowice, Poland, I was quite struck by the drab and depressing architecture.
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