The Heartland Institute

In my investment letter, Addison Wiggin’s Apogee Advisory , we spend a great deal of time, money and resources looking for new investment ideas that our subscribers can act on independently. Sometimes what we find instead is outrage. For example, the federal government is about to dump millions of the foreclosed homes at fire ...

Entercom, one of the largest radio chains in the United States, is petitioning the Federal Communications Commission to change the requirement that radio stations disclose contest rules over the air. At issue is the length of time and frequency required by the FCC for radio announcers to read contest rules, which Entercom asserts ...

The alternative energy industry has found a reliable benefactor in the form of the Iowa legislature, which between 2003 and 2010 gave most of the state’s economic development subsidies to biofuel firms. New Caps Imposed Tina Hoffman, marketing and communications director for the Iowa Economic Development Authority, confirmed the ...

Wilmington, North Carolina residents will be the first in the nation to have access to a "super wi-fi" network which operates using the “white space” between licensed channels. Technical experts, however, say the network will not provide legitimate wi-fi as it is commonly understood. Additionally, the bandwidth used to deploy ...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) has signaled his long-awaited decision on whether to lift the ban on hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, in his state will be forthcoming “in a couple of months.” Upstate Economy Hurting At stake is nothing less than the economic future of the southern tier of upstate New York, an ...

Lawyers for a woman charged, along with her boyfriend, with murdering a Washington couple, spent two hours in court recently arguing over whether she would be allowed to buy candy bars and Cocoa Puffs cereal while in jail. The argument isn’t over--it’s been continued until next month. Jail staff opposed giving the woman ...

Georgia lawmakers are considering overturning a classroom technology ban to let K-12 students bring their own devices to class. If adopted in House Bill 706, the Bring-Your-Own-Technology (BYOT) provision would allow students to bring personal laptops, tablets, and smartphones into their classrooms, potentially saving the state money ...

As Idaho’s 2013 legislative session got underway in January, the state’s overwhelmingly Republican legislature struggled with ideological divisions over how to proceed with implementation of President Obama’s health care law. Given the GOP divide, the future of Idaho’s health insurance exchange may rest with the state’s minority ...

Congressional passage of a bill extending payroll-tax cuts and jobless benefits on February 17 included a mandate that the Federal Communications Commission conduct auctions of wireless spectrum for commercial use. The auctions are expected to raise $25 billion, which will be used to help fund the extensions. The auctions will ...

Class action complaints have been filed against 12 law schools, in addition to two sued previously, claiming the schools misrepresented the employment rates of their graduates. The targeted schools are Albany Law School of Union University, Brooklyn Law School, California Western School of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law ...

Why would a prominent scientist/global warming activist commit acts of fraud and theft against global warming skeptics and then send to the media a forged document containing fictitious, over-the-top schemes that would embarrass skeptics? Answer: Because global warming activists cannot muster sufficient credible science to win the ...

The Obama Administration's $476 billion six-year transportation reauthorization proposal -- included as part of its FY 2013 budget submission -- has met with indifference if not outright skepticism in the Washington transportation community. The proposal comes at a time when both houses of Congress have already developed and are ...

Adelanto, California school district officials rejected a petition by parents to convert Desert Trails Elementary School into an independent charter under the nation’s inaugural Parent Trigger law. The Adelanto Elementary School District board voted 5-0 in late February to deny the parents’ petition, which district Superintendent ...

High-risk young men who are admitted by lottery to the schools they choose commit fewer crimes and remain in school longer, according to a new study of North Carolina students. Author David Deming, professor of education and economics at Harvard University, studied 6th to 11th graders in the Charlotte-Mecklenberg school district ...

“I reject the idea that we have to settle for a partial approach to getting rid of Obamacare. We have to follow through on what we promised the American people: repeal and replace. Of course, one of the things we haven't done yet is come forward with a patient-centered plan to replace Obamacare, but we did pass out of ...

With the weight of damning evidence closing in on him, alarmist scientist Peter Gleick has admitted in his Huffington Post blog that he was the alleged “Heartland Insider” who committed fraud and identity theft, lying and stealing his way into possession of Heartland Institute internal personnel documents and then sending those ...

U.S. businesses would have a lower tax rate but an overall higher tax bill under a proposal by President Barack Obama. Obama proposes to lower the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 28 percent while at the same time ending dozens of tax deductions. Businesses would end up paying tax on a larger amount of taxable income ...

Enrollment in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, still the largest voucher program in the nation, grew 12 percent in 2011 after Gov. Scott Walker signed legislation to expand education options for Wisconsin families. According to a February report from the Milwaukee-based Public Policy Forum (PPF), student enrollment in the ...

A prisoner tipping the scales at 400 pounds is suing prison officials for $1 million for failing to provide him clothing big enough to fit him. He served his eight-month term in the t-shirt and sweat pants he wore upon arrival, which he washed every day in the shower. He was humiliated by the lack of proper prison ...

On March 23, 2010, President Obama forever altered the American health care system by signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. Its advocates promised the measure would reinvent the nation’s health care and reinvigorate the economy. As House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) put it, “This bill is not ...