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September 26, 2018
California Billionaire’s Renewable Energy Initiative Makes Arizona Ballot
Arizona voters will be considering a ballot initiative to require Arizona utilities to generate 50 percent of their electricity through renewable energy sources such as solar and wind by 2030 this November.
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Health Care
September 25, 2018
Amazon Expands Its Role in the Health Care Marketplace
Online retail giant Amazon is increasing its presence in the health care marketplace, with the company planning to open a primary care clinic for employees in late 2018.
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Health Care
September 25, 2018
CMS Encourages States to Allow the Sale of Short-Term Health Insurance Plans
U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar is encouraging states to allow the sale of short-term individual health insurance plans outside the Obamacare exchanges.
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Energy
September 25, 2018
U.S.–Mexico Trade Deal Should Boost American Energy Exports
After months of negotiations, the United States and Mexico reached a preliminary trade agreement that should significantly boost American energy exports to its southern neighbor.
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Education
September 24, 2018
Poll: Most Americans Support Expansion of School Choice
More than half of Americans surveyed in a new poll say parents with children enrolled in government schools should be given tax vouchers to facilitate “[enrolling] their children in private schools instead.”
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Taxes
September 24, 2018
Heartland Weekly: Heartland’s Ferrara on Fox & Friends
Week of September 17, 2018
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September 26, 2018
California Billionaire’s Renewable Energy Initiative Makes Arizona Ballot
By Tim Benson
Arizona voters will be considering a ballot initiative to require Arizona utilities to generate 50 percent of their electricity through renewable energy sources such as solar and wind by 2030 this November.
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September 25, 2018
Amazon Expands Its Role in the Health Care Marketplace
By Ashley Pappas
Online retail giant Amazon is increasing its presence in the health care marketplace, with the company planning to open a primary care clinic for employees in late 2018.
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September 25, 2018
CMS Encourages States to Allow the Sale of Short-Term Health Insurance Plans
By Christopher Talgo
U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar is encouraging states to allow the sale of short-term individual health insurance plans outside the Obamacare exchanges.
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September 25, 2018
U.S.–Mexico Trade Deal Should Boost American Energy Exports
By Christopher Talgo
After months of negotiations, the United States and Mexico reached a preliminary trade agreement that should significantly boost American energy exports to its southern neighbor.
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September 24, 2018
Poll: Most Americans Support Expansion of School Choice
By Sarah Quinlan
More than half of Americans surveyed in a new poll say parents with children enrolled in government schools should be given tax vouchers to facilitate “[enrolling] their children in private schools instead.”
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September 24, 2018
Heartland Weekly: Heartland’s Ferrara on Fox & Friends
By Billy Aouste
Week of September 17, 2018
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September 24, 2018
Bloom Energy’s “Tangled Web”
By Paul Driessen
What a tangled web Bloom weaves, since first it practiced to deceive.
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September 24, 2018
California Adopts 100 Percent Renewable Energy Goal
By Linnea Lueken
California adopted a law mandating 100 percent of the electricity in the state come from emissions-free sources by 2045.
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September 23, 2018
Ivanka Trump Endorses College-Loan Payment Tax Exemption Bill
By Leo Pusateri
President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump endorsed a bill proposed by U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R–IL) that would create federal tax incentives for private employers to pay student loan debt owed by their employees.
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September 23, 2018
Missouri Enacts Prevailing-Wage Reform
The cost of some local and state government construction projects in Missouri will decrease now that Gov. Michael Parson has signed a bill reforming the state’s prevailing-wage law.
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September 22, 2018
Daylight Saving Flexibility Under House Consideration
By Jeff Reynolds
The U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Energy and Commerce is considering a bill that would enable more states to decide whether to participate in Daylight Saving Time (DST), the practice of advancing clocks ahead one hour during summer months.
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September 22, 2018
Illinois Gov. Rauner Signs Craft Brewing Distribution Bill
By Linnea Lueken
Craft breweries in Illinois may now directly distribute beer to bars and pubs, after decades of being forced to use government-mandated middlemen.
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September 22, 2018
Michigan Reinstates Work Requirements for Food Stamps
By Ashley Herzog
Work requirements for food stamp recipients will be enforced in all 83 Michigan counties after having been waived for 16 years.
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September 22, 2018
Oregon Voters to Consider Grocery Sales Tax Ban
By Brandon Best
Oregon voters will decide in November whether to approve the creation of a constitutional amendment prohibiting new levies on the price of groceries in the state.
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September 22, 2018
Ohio Schoolteacher Sues for Freedom from Union Dues
By Leo Pusateri
Lawyers representing an Ohio schoolteacher are suing the local teacher’s union, claiming the organization is continuing to violate her right to free association after the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling.
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September 21, 2018
New York City Imposes Freeze, New Regulations on Ridesharing
By Ashley Herzog
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio approved a package of eight bills targeting Uber, Lyft, and other ridesharing companies doing business in the city.
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September 21, 2018
Kavanuagh Nomination Highlights Importance of Supreme Court Picks
By Allen Mendenhall
President Donald Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to succeed Justice Anthony Kennedy as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court on July 9, and his confirmation hearings were held in September.
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September 21, 2018
We Must All Sacrifice for the Environment (But I Meant You – Not Me!)
By Greg E. Walcher
Have we become a society of people who want to regulate others, but not ourselves?
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September 21, 2018
Heartland Refutes Global Climate Action Summit’s False Claims
By H. Sterling Burnett
Climate Change Weekly #299
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September 21, 2018
Colorado PUC Approves Expensive Green Energy Replacement for Coal Power Plants
By H. Sterling Burnett
Colorado's Public Utilities Commission approved Xcel Energy's plan to prematurely close two coal power units at its Comanche Generating Station and replace them largely with renewable power sources at an estimated cost of $2.5 billion.
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September 20, 2018
Legislative Pulse: Fighting for Reliable Energy in Arizona
By H. Sterling Burnett
Arizona state Rep. Mark Finchem (R–Tucson) says Arizonan’s, especially the poor and those on fixed incomes, will be harmed if voters adopt a renewable energy initiative being pushed by a California Billionaire.
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September 19, 2018
Heartland's Peter Ferrara on Fox & Friends: This is Trump's Economy, Not Obama's
By Jim Lakely
It is quite rich for the previous administration to try now to take credit for an economic recovery Americans can finally feel after years of Obama and Biden declaring a "Recovery Summer" that never came.
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September 19, 2018
Washington State Voters to Consider a Carbon Dioxide Tax
By Joe Barnett
Washington could become the first state to impose a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, and the first government anywhere to impose the tax through a direct popular vote, this November.
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September 19, 2018
Bank of the West’s Anti-Fossil-Fuel Policies Provoke Backlash
By Bonner R. Cohen
Bank of the West decision to divest itself from all businesses involved in the production, exploration, and distribution of coal, oil, and natural gas has angered elected officials in Wyoming and Colorado.
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September 19, 2018
U.S. Education Doesn't Need More Money
By Christopher Talgo
If only I had a dime for every time I have heard the claim America needs to spend more money on education.
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September 19, 2018
School Choice Can Enhance School Safety
By Robert G. Holland
School choice would give families more relief from the bullying/harassing form of violence than a whole battalion of school resource officers ever could.
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September 19, 2018
Thanks to the Trump Administration, Families Can Rest a Little Easier This Fall
By Sarah Lee
The cost of health care is an unceasing concern for Americans, as prices have soared over the past 30 years. 
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September 19, 2018
Who Needs Bipartisanship Without a Budget Constraint?
By Barry Poulson, John Merrifield
In 2018, all federal appropriation bills (with bipartisan support) have passed out of their respective committees.
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September 19, 2018
Harvard Case Could End Affirmative Discrimination
By Robert G. Holland
Harvard’s scandalous treatment of Asian Americans cannot be allowed to stand.
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September 19, 2018
FDA Proposes Plan for Streamlining Approval of Mobile Medical Apps
By Leo Pusateri
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a plan to update regulation of mobile medical applications, including a proposed precertification program to streamline the development of “software as a medical device” (SAMD).
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September 19, 2018
Senate Passes Spending Bill Funding HHS
By Ashley Herzog
The U.S. Senate passed a massive, $857 billion spending bill funding the departments of Defense, Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services (HHS) for FY 2019.
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September 19, 2018
Ohio Changes Medicaid Drug Pricing System
By Ashley Bateman
The Ohio Department of Medicaid announced its five managed-care plan providers will transition from a spread-pricing drug purchasing model to a pass-through approach by 2019.
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September 19, 2018
No, Trump’s Clean Power Plan Replacement Doesn’t Free Coal Industry to Pollute
By H. Sterling Burnett
CPP, the centerpiece of the Obama administration’s climate change agenda, forced the premature closure of dozens of coal-fired power plants and deserved to be eliminated.
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September 19, 2018
The Founders Were Not Education Centralizers
By Robert G. Holland
Some of the more zealous partisans of tax-funded schooling have resorted to a curious (and dubious) claim: “America’s Founders are on our side.”
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September 19, 2018
There's No Time Like the Present for Tax Reform 2.0
By Jesse Hathaway
This summer, youth employment reached its highest rate since 1966, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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September 18, 2018
Climate Alarmists Get Two Strikes In Court — They Should Be Out
By H. Sterling Burnett
In July, federal Judge John F. Keenan of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed New York City's lawsuit against five major oil companies.
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September 18, 2018
Irony Alert! ‘Progressive’ Democrats Embrace Obsolete Socialism
By Christopher Talgo
Karl Marx’s brand of socialism, an unequivocal disaster that has produced mass poverty, tyranny, and untold deaths, is mounting a comeback among so-called “liberal progressive” Democrats.
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September 18, 2018
Should We Watch Wile E. Coyote Go Off the Cliff?
By Barry Poulson, John Merrifield
For generations, one of the great joys in life has been watching Roadrunner cartoons, during which the Roadrunner always manages to find a way to trick Wile E. Coyote into running off a massive cliff.
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September 18, 2018
Medicare For All Would Be A Fiscal Nightmare
By Charles Katebi
As the 2018 midterm elections approach, growing numbers of progressive candidates have endorsed a single-payer health insurance program that will supposedly cover all Americans and deliver better medical care than our current health care system.
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September 18, 2018
Oh, the Humanity!
By Greg E. Walcher
How we long for the good old days! That is the tone of some environmental industry leaders who are screaming bloody murder (literally, not figuratively) about the Interior Department’s interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
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