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Suburban Chicago’s schools: Not as good as parents think

Are Illinois’ public schools that serve many middle-class children performing well? Their parents think so. But many of these schools are not as good as they think. That’s according to a new study from the Pacific Research Institute, which analyzed school performance in Illinois using several different methodologies and found ...
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Obamacare rate shocks are coming

Next year has already arrived for health insurers. The Obama administration has asked that insurers submit their proposed premiums for 2015 within the next month – even as they attempt to collect payment from about 1 million of the 8 million people who signed up for coverage in the exchanges ...
Business & Economics

California’s High-Tax, Big-Government Comedown

Anyone who has ever watched Animal Planet should be familiar with migrations. Geese do it, wildebeests and whales do it, turtles do it and, yes, people do it too. To migrate is a natural phenomenon. What’s interesting about most migrations is their purposes are generally positive: sex, food, sun and ...
Business & Economics

Address Patent Flaws or Face the Economic Consequences

The U.S. became the world’s largest economy, in part, because its policies supported innovation and entrepreneurship. From Thomas Edison to Steve Jobs, U.S. entrepreneurs invented many of the innovations that drove the 20th century global economy, with patents playing an indispensable role in this innovation process — which may explain ...
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Industry Succeeds Where Obamacare Fails

Walmart is about to get into the health insurance business. The retail giant’s Sam’s Club division just announced that it would launch a private health insurance exchange for its small-business customers. Business owners shopping at the wholesaler will effectively be able to pick up health insurance for their employees along ...
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Flash: Obamacare Dangerous To Health of Poor

Well, Halleluiah.  The Obamacare website is up and running. Of course, at only half a million applications processed so far… and accounting for the ones that the system garbled or couldn’t verify or seems to have lost… and anticipating the tens of millions of Americans predicted to lose coverage once ...
California

California’s Efficient Energy: Doing More Harm than Good?

When it comes to saving the planet, some of the most popular weapons are policies to promote energy efficiency. As Tim Greeff, deputy legislative director of the League of Conservation Voters recently quipped, “Efficiency is always the cheapest, cleanest, safest, quickest way to cut down on both global warming and ...
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Obamacare Madness: Medicaid Already a Proven Failure

State legislators across the country are wrestling with whether to expand Medicaid, with the bulk of the funding to come from the federal government, thanks to Obamacare. Thus far, a substantial number of states have rebuffed the feds’ offer — or are leaning that way. They’re right to do so. ...
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Medicaid proven a failure

State legislators across the country are wrestling with whether to expand Medicaid, with the bulk of the funding to come from the federal government, thanks to Obamacare. Thus far, a substantial number of states have rebuffed the feds’ offer — or are leaning that way. They’re right to do so. ...
Commentary

Medicaid proven to be a failure

State legislators across the country are wrestling with whether to expand Medicaid, with the bulk of the funding to come from the federal government, thanks to Obamacare. Thus far, a substantial number of states have rebuffed the feds’ offer – or are leaning that way. They’re right to do so. ...
Commentary

Suburban Chicago’s schools: Not as good as parents think

Are Illinois’ public schools that serve many middle-class children performing well? Their parents think so. But many of these schools are not as good as they think. That’s according to a new study from the Pacific Research Institute, which analyzed school performance in Illinois using several different methodologies and found ...
Commentary

Obamacare rate shocks are coming

Next year has already arrived for health insurers. The Obama administration has asked that insurers submit their proposed premiums for 2015 within the next month – even as they attempt to collect payment from about 1 million of the 8 million people who signed up for coverage in the exchanges ...
Business & Economics

California’s High-Tax, Big-Government Comedown

Anyone who has ever watched Animal Planet should be familiar with migrations. Geese do it, wildebeests and whales do it, turtles do it and, yes, people do it too. To migrate is a natural phenomenon. What’s interesting about most migrations is their purposes are generally positive: sex, food, sun and ...
Business & Economics

Address Patent Flaws or Face the Economic Consequences

The U.S. became the world’s largest economy, in part, because its policies supported innovation and entrepreneurship. From Thomas Edison to Steve Jobs, U.S. entrepreneurs invented many of the innovations that drove the 20th century global economy, with patents playing an indispensable role in this innovation process — which may explain ...
Commentary

Industry Succeeds Where Obamacare Fails

Walmart is about to get into the health insurance business. The retail giant’s Sam’s Club division just announced that it would launch a private health insurance exchange for its small-business customers. Business owners shopping at the wholesaler will effectively be able to pick up health insurance for their employees along ...
Commentary

Flash: Obamacare Dangerous To Health of Poor

Well, Halleluiah.  The Obamacare website is up and running. Of course, at only half a million applications processed so far… and accounting for the ones that the system garbled or couldn’t verify or seems to have lost… and anticipating the tens of millions of Americans predicted to lose coverage once ...
California

California’s Efficient Energy: Doing More Harm than Good?

When it comes to saving the planet, some of the most popular weapons are policies to promote energy efficiency. As Tim Greeff, deputy legislative director of the League of Conservation Voters recently quipped, “Efficiency is always the cheapest, cleanest, safest, quickest way to cut down on both global warming and ...
Commentary

Obamacare Madness: Medicaid Already a Proven Failure

State legislators across the country are wrestling with whether to expand Medicaid, with the bulk of the funding to come from the federal government, thanks to Obamacare. Thus far, a substantial number of states have rebuffed the feds’ offer — or are leaning that way. They’re right to do so. ...
Commentary

Medicaid proven a failure

State legislators across the country are wrestling with whether to expand Medicaid, with the bulk of the funding to come from the federal government, thanks to Obamacare. Thus far, a substantial number of states have rebuffed the feds’ offer — or are leaning that way. They’re right to do so. ...
Commentary

Medicaid proven to be a failure

State legislators across the country are wrestling with whether to expand Medicaid, with the bulk of the funding to come from the federal government, thanks to Obamacare. Thus far, a substantial number of states have rebuffed the feds’ offer – or are leaning that way. They’re right to do so. ...
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