UPDATE: On March 13, 2013, The Heartland Institute was among 16 conservative think tanks and advocacy groups that signed a letter urging a sense of the Congress resolut
The United States has increased its teaching force 250 percent since 1950, reducing teacher-student ratios from 1:22 to 1:15, but the expansion has not brought higher teacher quality.
With gasoline prices reaching all-time highs, some activists and politicians are attacking oil and gas companies for not fully developing the federal leases for energy production they hold, and the
As Congress considers whether to allow the capital gains tax rate to increase at the beginning of 2013, states across the nation are debating whether to change their own capital gains tax rates.
In the past few years members of Congress have proposed several bills to expand states’ ability to tax purchases made online and from mail-order catalogs.
Although denying it “acted wrongly,” Grand Valley State University in Michigan has agreed to pay student Kendra Velzen $40,000 for refusing to allow Velzen to bring her “therapy guinea pig” into...
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