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Anchorage, Alaska set a record last week for its longest snow season on record. The city also set a record for its lowest May 17 maximum temperature. Global warming activists often claim Alaska is among the places most negatively affected by warming temperatures. In his movie, “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore claimed warming ...

Jacobs High School student Allison Leja of Algonquin, Illinois sued Carpentersville-based Community Unit School District 300 after she was allegedly hit in the face in the gymnasium by a volleyball net she was tightening with a crank. Leja’s lawyer alleged her school was or should have been aware that assembling the net ...

One talking point about Obamacare that has received little pushback is that whatever you can say about what the law will do to premium costs, or taking away a plan and a doctor you like, it’s going to put you on a better – meaning more comprehensive – insurance plan at the end of the day. Jonathan Cohn probably uses ...

Alabama's governor delays a new school choice law ; legislators fight back . Wisconsin's voucher schools do not discriminate against disabled students , explains Patrick Wolf. Kansas lawmakers could defund Common Core . More . An update on Ohio's school records scandal . Teacher colleges in Florida work to improve their programs . After ...

The emergency financial manager for Detroit has issued a report that says the city's finances are in worse shape than nearly anyone suspected before Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) appointed him to the job in March. Snyder appointed corporate turnaround expert Kevyn Orr to be Detroit's emergency financial manager. He is a lawyer ...

Government preschool programs have expanded greatly in the past decade, but a new poll finds 57 percent of Americans believe parents, not the government, should pay for preschool. Thirty-two percent said taxpayers should pay for preschool in the Reason-Rupe May 2013 poll . “President Obama has proposed expanding government preschool ...

Two years ago Romain Bertrand was a middle school math teacher, finishing his fifth year teaching in North Carolina’s Charlotte-Mecklenberg district and thinking he needed a way to reach more teachers and students. He moved to a new position mentoring and coaching teachers, but professionally, he felt stuck. “This wasn’t going ...

Global warming alarmists are breathlessly filling the media with sensationalist reports of carbon dioxide levels approaching 400 parts per million (that’s 4 parts per 10,000, or a 0.0004 share of the atmosphere, versus just under 300 parts per million, or a 0.0003 share of the atmosphere, prior to the Industrial Revolution). The ...

Global warming alarmists are breathlessly filling the media with sensationalist reports of carbon dioxide levels approaching 400 parts per million (that’s 4 parts per 10,000, or a 0.0004 share of the atmosphere, versus 3 parts per million, or a 0.0003 share of the atmosphere, prior to the Industrial Revolution). The central ...

Idaho Gov. “Butch” Otter—one of the most prominent opponents of Obamacare—announced his state would implement its own health insurance exchange under the law. Idaho Freedom Foundation executive director Wayne Hoffman, who was a member of the governor’s task force studying implementation, had recommended the alternate path of allowing ...

Islands in Tuvalu and other Pacific regions that served as poster children for global warming and sea level rise are actually growing, scientists acknowledge. Scientists report 80 percent of South Pacific islands are either growing or remaining the same size. “Some of those islands have gotten dramatically larger, by 20 or 30 ...

In 1989, Wisconsin became the first state to implement school vouchers for poor families. The program began in the Milwaukee School District in 1990 and expanded to Racine School District in 2011. This spring, Gov. Scott Walker (R) and state lawmakers introduced proposals to expand these opportunities to more families throughout ...

The Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association have a new billionaire team owner, and that billionaire will have a new stadium for his team, courtesy of local taxpayers. Two days after the NBA rejected a bid to move the Kings to Seattle, the Maloof family agreed to sell the Kings to a new group of investors ...

The non-partisan Congressional Research Service has confirmed that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who already has been invested with enormous power under President Obama's health care law, is essentially empowered as the rationer in chief should the Independent Payment Advisory Board fail in its mission. The ...

Joseph Bast, President of the Heartland Institute, and Dr. Herbert Walberg, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Heartland Institute, discuss their book Education and Capitalism: How Overcoming Our Fear of Markets and Economics Can Improve America's Schools on the 10 th anniversary of the book’s release. Image by the Center ...

Patients in New Mexico could take a big financial hit when the health care overhaul, known as Obamacare, takes effect. The Society of Actuaries has released a report concluding premium costs for individual health plans—an industry expected to get more crowded as the Affordable Care Act kicks in starting in 2014—will rise by ...

Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, whose agency oversees state energy policy, told Rep. Mike Fasano (R-New Port Richey) today he does not have the resources to perform an economic analysis to determine whether a proposed nuclear power plant would end up costing electricity customers more than a new natural gas facility ...

President Obama wants to privatize one of the nation’s largest government-owned companies, a proposal that is bringing pushback from some unlikely sources: politicians who ordinarily promote themselves as favoring smaller government and more free enterprise. In his 2014 budget, President Obama called for a strategic review of ...

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) says the state should use additional revenue it might receive from Internet sales taxes to cut the state’s income tax. “I want to make clear, should federal Marketplace legislation become law, my intention would be for any resulting additional revenue be used to provide individual income tax ...

If you’re a large business and you want to relocate near the beach, then, boy, does Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) have a deal for you. In the latest example of northern flight to a Sun Belt state, Hertz Corp., best known as a rental car company, announced last week that it’s packing up its corporate bags and moving its ...