Year: 1998

Global Warming: Enjoy it While You Can, by John Carlisle

Policymakers have been arguing for nearly a decade over what to do about global warming. Noticeably missing from this debate has been any mention of the fact that natural fluctuations in the Earth's temperature, not Man, is the likely explanation ...

What Earth Day Means to Minority Citizens, by Edmund Peterson

April 22, 1998 marks the 28th annual Earth Day celebration, but like many other people of color I will not be celebrating. To me, Earth Day is merely an annual reminder of the environmental movement's insensitivity to the needs and ...

Political Money Monitor #12: March 27, 1998

Contents* Wyoming Enacts "Paycheck Protection" * Strong Support for "No Taxpayer Money for Politics" * AFL-CIO Raises Member Dues to Fight Paycheck Protection * Business Association Endorses Paycheck Protection/California Initiative * AFL-CIO Asked to Help Stop Anti-Initiative Violence Wyoming Enacts ...

Relief Report #63: March 20, 1998

Last December, Stephen Tvedten of Marne, Michigan received a terse letter from Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) informing him that he was in violation of the state's Environmental Protection Act. His alleged offense? Building two "wood debris" dams across ...

Black Teen Suicide Study Alarming, Yet Misleading

Press Release /
Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 reject a recent Center for Disease Control and Prevention study on teen suicide that says African-American teens reared in upwardly mobile families are not able to cope with the "stressful" environment created ...

Political Money Monitor #11: March 13, 1998

Contents * Worker Protections Gutted in Washington * Teachers Union Members Support "Paycheck Protection" * Teamster Leaders: Free Speech for Me, But Not for Thee * AFL-CIO Leaders Give Secret Testimony About Financial Wrongdoing * Pro- and Anti-Proposition 226 Campaigns ...

Scoop #186: March 10, 1998

Contents* New Riley-Salmon Bill Would Eliminate the Marriage Penalty in a Simple & Fair Way, Sponsor Says * New Bill Would End Legal Extortion of Local School Officials * New Push Begins for Tax Limitation Constitutional Amendment * Inhofe Reviews ...

Scoop #185: March 5, 1998

Contents* It's Goodbye to Sport Utility Vehicles if the EPA Has Its Way * Honesty First Casualty of Newest Endangered Species Act * If You are Pro-Life You're Anti-Environment, Says Group * Senate May Act on Gallegley's Private Property Bill ...

Slap in the Face of the Reverend Floyd Flake, by Jackie Cissell

Project 21 Commentary /
Former Democratic congressman Floyd Flake of New York was recently uninvited to the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus Prayer Breakfast. Now, if anyone should be welcome at the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus Prayer Breakfast, it should be Floyd Flake. Rev. Flake ...

Maryland’s Stack-the-Deck Legal Approach is Not in Taxpayers’ Best Interest

Legislators in Maryland will soon vote on a controversial new law that will essentially overturn a judge's decision dismissing 9 of 13 counts in the state's lawsuit against tobacco companies. Critics say it's a case of the plaintiff in a ...

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