|
Environmentalism: Why has green gone out of fashion
PRI in the News
4.29.2005
For 35 years now, environmentalists have specialized in “Chicken Little scare tactics and doomsday prophesying,” said Chip Giller in The Boston Globe. But the movement reached new “depths of gloominess” when it recently announced “the death of itself.”
Read more
|
|
|
Blimps, Broadband and Bosses
Technology Op-Ed
4.29.2005
It's not a bird or plane, it's the "stratellite," a huge broadband blimp announced this month. It will make high-speed Internet junkies gleeful, leave broadband competitors fearful, and tell policymakers to ignore warnings of an imminent broadband monopoly.
Read more
|
|
|
Ozone rules would be toughest in the nation
PRI in the News
By: Mike Lee
4.28.2005
California regulators are expected to adopt the nation's toughest ozone pollution standard today on the heels of a new study that reports nine out of 10 state residents are threatened by unhealthy air despite big improvements during the last decade.
Read more
|
|
|
Under No Child Left Behind, state seeking results
Education Op-Ed
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D., Bill Evers
4.28.2005
For five years, California's attempt to fix failing schools was confused and in disarray. But the federal No Child Left Behind Act has a timetable and sanctions that hold the state's feet to the fire, and this has forced California to make a long-overdue change. State officials now have adopted an academically focused school-improvement method that should work to rescue failing schools. The state and its school districts need to persist in this effort.
Read more
|
|
|
Bad medicine
Health Care Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
4.25.2005
Arnold S. Relman says our current health care system is in critical condition ("The Health of Nations," March 7). Unfortunately, his article failed in both its diagnosis and its prescription. He critiques the deficiencies in our system but proposes a utopian solution that could never exist. Although his model has been attempted and is currently in place in Canada, he neglects to examine its real world results.
Read more
|
|
|
Fighting Environmental Illiteracy
PRI in the News
By: Jim Motavalli
4.25.2005
You’d need environmental blinders to believe the horsefeathers retailed in the “Index of Leading Environmental Indicators.”
Read more
|
|
|
Every day is Earth Day
PRI in the News
By: H. Sterling Burnett
4.24.2005
Environmentalists are quick to admonish, “Every Day is Earth Day”- a mild reproach that everyone should daily consider how their actions affect the planet. In fairness, in the United States at least, the evidence suggests that every day is earth day, so environmentalists’ sniping is unwarranted.
Read more
|
|
|
Happy 35th Earth Day
PRI in the News
By: Ronald Bailey
4.22.2005
Born 35 years ago in a fever of political activism, Earth Day is now a Hallmark Holiday. Earth Day and its traditional pieties about recycling and conservation now engender all of the public passion of Arbor Day.
Read more
|
|
|
Acting Globally: An Affordable Hobby
PRI in the News
4.22.2005
Earth Day 2005: On this, the 35th anniversary of a day set aside to promote environmental awareness, our nation continues to enjoy improved ecological health. Who's responsible for this progress?
Read more
|
|
|
Capitalism Cleans Up the Earth Day
PRI in the News
By: Rush Limbaugh
4.22.2005
RUSH: Is this the day? Yeah. April 22nd is Earth Day. That's exactly what I was thinking. April 22nd is Earth Day. All right, so that's why everybody has been going nuts. I forgot. I confuse Earth Day and May Day because May Day is where the communists celebrate.
Read more
|
|
|
People, Progress, and the Planet -- Earth Day 2005
PRI in the News
By: Paul Driessen
4.22.2005
Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore says the environmental movement “has lost its objectivity, morality and humanity.” This Earth Day, let us dedicate ourselves to restoring those essential virtues.
Read more
|
|
|
A healthy business climate takes more than tax breaks
PRI in the News
By: Froma Harrop
4.22.2005
Every year, the free-market Pacific Research Institute ranks states on its U.S. Economic Freedom Index. It gives good grades for low wages, liberty to pollute and tax policies that let the rich off the hook. Last year, Kansas was number one.
Read more
|
|
|
What haze?
Environment Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
4.22.2005
This Earth Day, the people of Los Angeles should take a deep breath and step into the sunshine. In a stunning West Coast turnaround, the City of Smog actually won a kind of atmospheric Oscar by making the air quality "Most Improved List" in a recent report by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Read more
|
|
|
SBC and AT&T: One Marriage San Francisco Opposes
Technology Op-Ed
4.22.2005
SBC and AT&T (NYSE: T) announced plans to merge in February, but some states are hesitating to approve the marriage and some advocates want the relationship to end. This uncertainty is bad for consumers because if technology companies can't control their business plans, freedom and choice will suffer.
Read more
|
|
|
Earthly Illuminations
Environmental Op-Ed
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
4.22.2005
For ten years now, Steven Hayward, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the Pacific Research Center, has been the principal author of the Index of Leading Environmental Indicators. In the latest edition, Hayward & co. spot "a turning point." According to the Index, "It appears that public regard for environmental doomsaying is declining."
Read more
|
|
|
Hot-Air Day
Environment Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
4.22.2005
While ozone air pollution has fallen to its lowest level in U.S. history, hot air on the subject still hovers over us like a suffocating smog. This weekend — like every other Earth Day — environmentalists will saturate the country’s airwaves and newspapers with doomsday warnings about global warming and species extinction.
Read more
|
|
|
The environment: free at last
Environment Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
4.20.2005
As we approach this Earth Day on Friday, Americans have plenty to celebrate. Air pollution has fallen to the lowest level ever recorded. Wildlife is thriving. The bald eagle can finally be taken off the Endangered Species List. Forestland in the eastern half of the United States is increasing at a net rate of 1 million acres a year. And after three centuries of decline, wetlands are now making a rapid comeback.
Read more
|
|
|
Happy Earth Day
PRI in the News
By: New York Sun Staff
4.20.2005
Just in time for Earth Day on April 22, the American Enterprise Institute and the Pacific Research Institute are out today with their annual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators. Despite the scare talk of groups like the Sierra Club, after four years of President Bush in the White House and Republican control of Congress, the environment is actually doing well.
Read more
|
|
|
Nurturing the environment U.N. adopts alarmist outlook
Environment Op-Ed
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
4.19.2005
By 2050, the world will not be able to feed itself and a worsening environment will threaten our children's future, according to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a U.N.-commissioned study released last month.The report paints a gloomy picture that ignores an important reality. On the environment, there is abundant cause for optimism.
Read more
|
|
|
Ignore gloom; environment will survive
PRI in the News
By: Jim Wooten
4.19.2005
Shocking news! Stop the presses. New data leaked during this Earth Week tent revival reveal previously unacknowledged environmental secrets. Sit down, Mama, the revelations are coming hard and fast:
Read more
|
|
|
Open Source, Mugged by Reality?
Technology Op-Ed
4.18.2005
The Open Source Business Conference held this month in San Francisco was chock-full of information on how to make money using open source software. Once a bastion for socialist thinking, the open source (OS) community is finally coming of age.
Read more
|
|
|
Local District Should Take Lead in State Funding Crisis
PRI in the News
By: Menaka Fernando
4.18.2005
April 18 -- For meaningful strides to be made in California's ailing K-12 public education system, higher-income districts -- such as Santa Monica's -- must lead the way to help lower-income schools, state legislators and education experts said Saturday.
Read more
|
|
|
Don't panic on environment
PRI in the News
By: Jim Wooten
4.17.2005
If you're looking for the difference it makes that conservatives now run Georgia, no better example exists than a bill that Gov. Sonny Perdue signed into law Thursday.
Read more
|
|
|
Don't tax my iPod
Technology Op-Ed
4.15.2005
Today is tax day, but those who think this expensive event only comes once a year should examine monthly phone bills and beware of recent actions by greedy bureaucrats.
Read more
|
|
|
Now Is Time to Bet on Environmental Good News
PRI in the News
By: Andrew Ferguson
4.12.2005
April 12 (Bloomberg) -- As we all prepare to celebrate Earth Day on April 22, let us hearken for a moment to Steven Hayward, who is one of nature's rare creatures -- two parts scholar, one part troublemaker.
Read more
|
|
|
Open Source Meets Capitalism
Technology Op-Ed
4.8.2005
At the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco this week, technology entrepreneurs gathered to discuss "open source capitalism." This conference theme demonstrates how the Open Source (OS) community is beginning to replace its corporate-hating mindset with a profit-loving meme, aiming to create jobs and value.
Read more
|
|
|
The Black and Hispanic Graduation Problem
Education Op-Ed
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
4.4.2005
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell and state education officials are wiping egg off their faces. O’Connell’s Department of Education has claimed that 87 percent of California high school students graduated in 2002. A recent Harvard study, however, finds that only 71 percent of California high schoolers graduated in that year. It also reports that only about six out of 10 black and Hispanic high-school students received their diploma.
Read more
|
|
|
Enact a cap on damage awards
Health Care Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
4.3.2005
Medical malpractice lawsuits have been driving up the costs of health care for decades. In recent years, they have actually started to limit patient access to quality care.
Read more
|
|
|
Free Broadband? Metro Mistake
Technology Op-Ed
4.1.2005
Following a trend burning across the nation, San Francisco's Public Utility Commission (PUC) recently approved $300,000 for a feasibility study on whether the city should add broadband to its utility services. This move toward government-run communications systems is dangerous for a number of reasons.
Read more
|
|
|
