The Heartland Institute

Steve Stanek speaks about the Marketplace Fairness Act on the Nationally Syndicated Lars Larson Show. ...

Friday's ed news 1. Alabama withdrew from Common Core testing recently, but state legislators say that's not enough. They want the entire program out . 2. If teachers like unions so much, writes Larry Sand , why do unions bully them into joining? 3. A suburban Minneapolis school district will save $2 million in two years by ...

The New Hampshire legislature voted its first private school choice program into law in 2011, but a new majority in the state House of Representatives may now repeal it. In addition, the program is facing a lawsuit. “A number of [education] tax-credit programs have never been challenged in court, [such as those in] Florida ...

Over the past few years many states have passed so-called Amazon taxes that have produced very little revenue and in some cases have been overturned in court. At the same time Congress has tried to expand states' ability to tax purchases made online and from mail-order catalogs by neutering the physical presence standard. Only ...

As President Obama’s health care law goes into effect, restaurants across the country are preparing for the new expense of meeting informational requirements under the law which are likely to prove costly without any certainty of health benefits. Section 4205 of Obama’s law requires restaurants and similar retail food establishments ...

Global warming alarmists are attacking the integrity of scientists, desperately seeking to minimize the damage presented by a recent survey of geoscientists and engineers regarding global warming. A recent survey of more than 1,000 geoscientists and engineers reported in the peer-reviewed Organization Studies found that only 36 percent ...

Florida Governor Rick Scott has decided to go along with the Obama administration's expansion of Medicaid, the most significant state under Republican control to do so. Peter Suderman explains the background: It’s a dramatic reversal for Scott, a former health care executive and outspoken opponent of ObamaCare who spent an estimated ...

How would they likely compare with the region’s winter wheat yields of today? Based on the results of this study, the net effect of several warmth-induced changes induces a mean grain yield increase of 16.3%... Read More A Two-Millennia Record of the South American Summer Monsoon (19 Feb 2013) Today’s temperatures over the ...

With no-fault auto insurance premiums that are among the highest in the nation, Michigan lawmakers should act to grant consumers more choice and to control the sky-rocketing cost of medical claims, a new policy study from the R Street Institute finds. The report from R Street Senior Fellow R. J. Lehmann comes on the heels ...

In 1998, Florida and Nevada had the same score on the National Assessment of Educational Progress fourth grade reading test. In 1999, however, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) instituted a series of reforms, including tax-credit scholarships, vouchers, grading schools from A-F, ending social promotion from third grade, a robust system ...