Larger Public Health Risks Overlooked in the Global Warming Debate
Policy Proposals Seek Solution to Hypothetical Health Risks While Ignoring Real Ones For Immediate Release November 21, 1997 Contact: David Ridenour of The National Center for Public Policy Research at (202) 507-6398 or [email protected] The public health "big picture" has largely been overlooked in the current global warming debate, increasing ...
Piscataway Payoff Delays Civil Rights Reform – November 1997
Fearing the results of a Supreme Court defeat, civil rights organizations are keeping a major case from going before the Court by paying a majority of the cost to settle it. The school board of Piscataway, New York, voted yesterday to accept an offer by the Black Leadership Forum, a ...
Forbes Praises Greenspan and Gregg on Social Security Reform
Press Release Americans for Hope, Growth and Opportunity FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 20, 1997 STATEMENT BY HON. CHAIRMAN STEVE FORBES PRAISING FED CHAIRMAN ALAN GREENSPAN AND SEN. JUDD GREGG ON SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM (Bedminster, New Jersey) Steve Forbes, Honorary Chairman of Americans for Hope, Growth and Opportunity, a national issues ...
Political Money Monitor Issue #2
Political Money Monitor Promoting the Spirit of Political Choice for All AmericansIssue 2 * November 14, 1997The National Center for Public Policy Research Amy Moritz Ridenour, President 20 F Street NW, Suite 700 * Washington, D.C. 20001 (202) 507-6398 * Fax (301) 498-1301 E-Mail: [email protected] Web: https://nationalcenter.org Contents* Filings Show Congress ...
Political Money Monitor #3
Political Money Monitor Promoting the Spirit of Political Choice for All AmericansIssue 3 * November 21, 1997The National Center for Public Policy Research Amy Moritz Ridenour, President 20 F Street NW, Suite 700 * Washington, D.C. 20001 (202) 507-6398 * Fax (301) 498-1301 E-Mail: [email protected] Web: https://nationalcenter.org Contents* Carey's Out, Should ...
Black America 1997: How Government Harms Charities… And How Some are Succeeding Anyway (Abridged Version)
Black America 1997How Government Harms Charities ...and How Some Are Succeeding AnywayPublished by Project 21 20 F Street, NW #700 Washington, D.C. 20001 (202) 507-6398 Fax (301) 498-1301 [email protected] Copyright 1997: The National Center for Public Policy Research ABRIDGED VERSION Introduction In recent years many anecdotes have illustrated the burden ...
Is UNICEF Aiding AIDS? by Kevin Pritchett
by Kevin PritchettA New Visions Commentary paper published November 1997 by The National Center for Public Policy Research, 501 Capitol Court, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002, 202/543-4110, Fax (202) 543-5975, E-Mail [email protected], Web https://nationalcenter.org. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. Whether media tycoon Ted Turner's recent $1 billion pledge to the ...
President Clinton Violates His Own Executive Order on “Environmental Justice”; Minority Health Jeopardized by Range of Administration’s Environmental Initiatives
President Clinton Violates His Own Executive Order on "Environmental Justice" Minority Health Jeopardized by Range of Administration's Environmental Initiatives For Immediate Release November 4, 1997 Contact: David Ridenour at (202) 507-6398 or [email protected] The health and well-being of thousands of blacks, Hispanics and other disadvantaged Americans will be in greater ...
Speech of National Center Vice President David Ridenour at Global Warming Rally at the U.S. Capitol
Statement by David A. Ridenour, Vice President of The National Center for Public Policy Research, at the "Just Say No to ClimateCare" rally held on the West side of the U.S. Capitol, October 30, 1997 Last week, President Clinton announced his strategy for the current negotiations in Bonn and the ...
New Newsletter! Political Money Monitor Issue #1
Political Money Monitor Promoting the Spirit of Political Choice for All AmericansIssue 1 * October 29, 1997The National Center for Public Policy Research Amy Moritz Ridenour, President 20 F Street NW, Suite 700 * Washington, D.C. 20001 (202) 507-6398 * Fax (301) 498-1301 E-Mail: [email protected] Web: https://nationalcenter.org Contents* Congress Ignoring Constituents' ...
Judge Rules Lawyers Won’t Be Paid Unless They Prove Their Work Benefits Public; Child’s Illness Demonstrates Need for Liability Reform; “Loser Pays” Serves Justice, Cases Show; Ludicrous Lawsuits
Judge Rules Lawyers Won't Be Paid Unless They Prove Their Work Benefits PublicShould lawyers make millions by suing a manufacturer to fix a problem the manufacturer has already fixed, fixed for free, and fixed although none of the customers noticed the problem? That was the question in a California courtroom ...
The New “Clinton-Lite” Global Warming Strategy: Half the Controversy, Same Bad Economic Aftertaste
President Clinton's latest strategy to address global warming might best be described as Clinton-Lite: It has half the controversy of his previous strategy, but the same bad economic aftertaste. On October 22, the President unveiled his strategy for the upcoming negotiations in Kyoto, Japan aimed at reducing world emissions of ...
Support for Campaign Finance Reform Improperly Measured by Poorly Worded L.A. Times Poll
Press Release Support for Campaign Finance Reform Improperly Measured by Poorly Worded L.A. Times Poll For Immediate Release: October 17, 1997 CONTACT: David Almasi (202) 507-6398 or [email protected] A poll published in the Los Angeles Times purporting to find public opposition to a proposed state campaign finance reform initiative was ...
Survey of State Climate Experts Casts Doubt on Link Between Human Activity and Global Warming
Press Release Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation 1250 H Street, NW, #700 Washington, D.C. 20005-3908 1-888-JOIN-CSE (202) 783-3870 Fax (202) 783-4687 Survey of State Climate Experts Casts Doubt on Link Between Human Activity and Global Warming(Washington, DC)-- A majority of state climatologists say reducing man-made carbon dioxide emissions to1990 ...
President’s Interpretation of “Environmental Justice” Jeopardizes Minority Health and Well-Being
The Clinton Administration's narrow interpretation of what constitutes "environmental justice" could place thousands of blacks, Hispanics and other disadvantaged Americans at greater risk. On February 11, 1994, President Clinton committed his administration to an environmental justice strategy by signing Executive Order 12898, Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice inMinority Populations ...
Group Launches Presidential Sexual Harassment TV & Radio Commercials, Telephone Hotline
Press Release For Immediate Release Contact: Amy Moritz Ridenour (202) 507-6398 or [email protected] Jackie Clark (202) 638-1255 Brad Keena (202) 544-3200 or [email protected] GROUP LAUNCHES PRESIDENTIAL SEXUAL HARASSMENT TV AND RADIO COMMERCIALS, TELEPHONE HOTLINEA group of public policy analysts and activists are announcing the formation of the Campaign for Victims ...
Legal Brief: Firm Penalized $2.5 Billion for Accident They Did Not Cause and in Which No One Was Hurt; Scientific Evidence Weak for Plaintiffs in Nation’s Largest Class Action Suit; Legal Reform Under Assault; Husband Asks Federal Court to Stop Wife from Smoking
Firm Penalized $2.5 Billion for Accident They Did not Cause and in Which No One Was HurtIn another example of bizarre jury verdicts, CSX Transportation (formerly Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad) has been found liable for $2.5 billion in punitive damages by a New Orleans jury for a train tank-car fire ...
An Answer to America’s “Race Question”
by Rev. Earl W. JacksonA New Visions Commentary paper published Setember 1997 by The National Center for Public Policy Research, 501 Capitol Court, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002, 202/543-4110, Fax (202) 543-5975, E-Mail [email protected], Web https://nationalcenter.org. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. The national dialogue on race has always been with ...
Project 21 Joins NAACP In Criticizing New National Academic Tests Proposed By the Clinton Administration – September 1997
With the House of Representatives expected to vote on the Labor, Health and Human Services Education appropriations bill on Thursday, September 4, the African-American group Project 21 has joined the NAACP and others in criticizing proposed new national reading tests that will be funded by the appropriations bill for fourth ...
Senator Wellstone Sticks Up for Kids… Until Trial Lawyers Ask Him for a Favor
Senator Paul Wellstone, the former Carleton College professor who represents Minnesota in the Senate, loves to portray himself as a champion of the poor -- particularly children from low-income and no-income households. A member of the Senate Children and Families subcommittee, Wellstone often is referred to as "Saint Paul of ...
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