— Diane Carol Bast

Diane Carol Bast is The Heartland Institute's executive editor. She is responsible for Heartland’s serial publications—Budget & Tax News, Environment & Climate News, FIRE Policy News, Health Care News, IT&T News, School Reform News,and The Heartlander members' newsletter. She also edits and oversees the production of all books, policy studies, newsletters, and other publications produced by The Heartland. Bast has edited or written more than 100 studies and 10 books on state and local public policy, including Why We Spend Too Much on Health Care (1993), Eco-Sanity: A Common-Sense Guide to Environmentalism (1994), Antitrust after Microsoft: The Obsolescence of Antitrust in the Digital Era (2001), and Emerging Issues 2007 (2007).