The American Tradition Institute’s Environmental Law Center filed a federal Freedom of Information Act request with NASA, seeking records detailing whether and how °∞global warming°± activist Dr. James Hansen of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has complied with applicable federal ethics and financial disclosure laws and regulations, and NASA Rules of Behavior. This…
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Science and Environmental Policy Project
SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY PROJECT
The Week That Was January 15, 2011 Quote of the Week “Extraordinary claims should be backed by extraordinary evidence.” Carl Sagan Number of the Week: 86.7% This Week By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) On Jan. 18, the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore…
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MacIver Study Shows Need for School Districts to Shop Around
Wisconsin taxpayers could save millions every year on teacher health plans By Brett Healy, MacIver Institute Madison, Wis. A competitive health care marketplace can yield cost savings for school districts across Wisconsin if school board members don’t have a greater loyalty to a particular insurance company than they do to their taxpayers, a new…
Joe Dobbs
Campus Chatter
Vegetarians, mind your own business by Joseph Dobbs Beautiful women are always found in the ranks of monumental movements. While I find myself unable to fetishize anyone whose name rhymes with para-sailing, there is no doubt that both the rise of Republican women and such opposition as the Obama Girl (and Michelle herself, to many)…
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Might Wisconsin Be Next?
The Utah Pension Model As Illinois and New Jersey struggle to reform their broken public pension plans, it would be nice to hear a success story for a change. Witness Utah, which last March replaced defined benefit pensions with a 401(k)-style plan for new state and municipal workers, says the Wall Street Journal. As the…
MacIver News Service
MPS Shocker:
Dysfunctional Substitute Teacher System Wasting $4 Million Every Year MacIver News Service Milwaukee, Wis. _ The Milwaukee Public Schools system is so large and inefficient that it cannot accurately track the workloads and physical locations of its substitute teachers. In fact, the MacIver News Service has learned inefficient methods for hiring and placing substitute workers…