Author Archives: matt ohern

The Revolution In Online Education Nearing Takeoff

The revolution in online education continues. It’s just taking longer than it should. Two years ago, the Georgia Institute of Technology partnered with Udacity, a company that runs massively open online courses (MOOCs) and ATT to launch an online masters … Continue reading

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Second Thoughts on Second-Hand Smoke

“We find no evidence that legislated U.S. smoking bans were associated with short term reductions in hospital admissions for [heart attack] acute myocardial infarction or other diseases in the elderly, children or working-age adults.” This startling conclusion comes from four … Continue reading

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Commuting, Land-Use, and Urban Economic Productivity

Much of today’s urban transportation planning focuses on transit and “smart growth.” According to this set of ideas, suburbanization (aka “sprawl”) is bad and should be discouraged, while higher density is good and should be increased, so that “we can … Continue reading

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Climate Treaty will Harm U.S. Future

By Paul Driessen and Roger Bezdek The recent Paris climate talks became frenzied, as delegates desperately tried to salvage an agreement beyond empty promises to do something sometime about what President Obama insists is the gravest threat to our planet, … Continue reading

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Health Care Reform That Makes Sense

Momentum is building for the Virginia General Assembly to pass long-overdue changes to the Certificate of Public Need (COPN) law. Under the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act, 49 states implemented COPN laws in order to receive federal funding. … Continue reading

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