What will happen to jobs, living standards and families under restrictive energy policies? By James Tonkowich Pennsylvania is lucky. Even amid this prolonged recession and depressingly high unemployment (9.5 percent in PA), families and businesses in the Keystone State are still paying just 9.4 cents a kilowatt hour for electricity. That’s due in large part…
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SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY PROJECT
The Week That Was October 30, 2010 Quote of the Week For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. –Carl Sagan Number of the Week 24 to 1 This Week By Ken Haapala On Oct. 29, the French Academy…
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Short Takes By Ken VanDoren
Candidates Corner
Illegal Immigration Becomes a Top Campaign Issue of 2010
Americans for Legal Immigration PAC reported last month that an historic number of campaigns, well over half of all federal campaigns, are addressing illegal immigration as a top campaign issue in the 2010 elections. ALIPAC has surveyed the nation and conducted extensive research on federal campaigns, while building and managing the largest archive of information…
Government Circus
No more double standards
Government officials and grant recipients must also be held accountable for fraud By Paul Driessen False, misleading or fraudulent claims have long brought the wrath of juries, judges and government agencies down on perpetrators. So have substandard manufacturing practices. * GlaxoSmith Klein has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $750-million fine for manufacturing deficiencies…
Heartland Institute
Michigan Ponders Its Energy Producing
Michigan, a state whose economy was driven for more than a century by its oncemighty automobile industry, now has chance to reinvent itself and become one of the nation’s leading suppliers of energy. Whether that happens will depend on decisions by Michigan lawmakers regarding the state’s abundant shale oil and gas deposits. Increasing the state’s…