The Heartland Institute

Michael Whatley of the Consumer Energy Alliance talks with Ben Domenech about the Keystone XL pipeline and what to expect from the Obama administration on energy policy. ...

While housing affordability challenges were greatest for extremely low-income (ELI) renters, affordability indicators worsened across the board for renters in the Third Federal Reserve District between 2005 and 2010, according to a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s Community Development Studies Education Department ...

SPRINGFIELD —Lottery tickets can give 1,000 Chicago kids school choice, one Chicago Democrat says. State Rep. LaShawn Ford (D-Chicago) has introduced legislation that would pull nearly $6 million from the Illinois lottery for K-8 private school “scholarships.” Lawmakers started the lottery in the 1980s to “save” public education ...

Nearly 20 years ago, Coy Koontz Sr., now deceased, sought a permit for four acres of his property in Orange County, Florida to be available for development, so he could sell the property and fund his retirement. The St. Johns River Water Management District responded by demanding Koontz put the rest of his 11 acres of land ...

In fall 2012, the Carolina Business Coalition commissioned us to prepare a review of the North Carolina tax system and recommend possible improvements. We undertook this project as a national organization familiar with tax developments in many states, with the view that tax systems should adhere to sound economic principles, and ...

A jury award in West Virginia will require two lawyers and a doctor to pay CSX Rail $429,240 for racketeering and fraud in the reading of x-rays in asbestos cases. The two attorneys hired the doctor to read tens of thousands of x-rays. One of the lawyers filed 14,000 asbestos claims against the railroad. The doctor’s questionable ...

Did you know that 44 percent of America’s corn crop is used for ethanol production rather than food? Did you know that corn prices and food prices as a whole have increased dramatically during the past several years after federal ethanol mandates began diverting corn to ethanol? The Mackinac Institute’s Bruce Walker published ...