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Lemonade Day—or Regulation Day?
Author: Timothy Sandefur May 1 is supposed to be Lemonade Day—an event organized by a Houston based group called Prepared 4 Life, to teach kids about entrepreneurship. But as Nicolas S. Martin of the Consumer Health Education Council, explains, the lesson it really teaches is about overregulation and the barriers that local communities have set ...
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Rehabilitating Lochner
Author: Timothy Sandefur David Bernstein, whose important new book Rehabilitating Lochner has just been published, will be speaking about his book at the Lochner decision today at 4pm Eastern at the Cato Institute in Washington. You can watch live online at this link. … ...
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Species plan may be put on shelf, thanks to mindset of environmental groups
Author: Brandon Middleton In Utah, state and local officials have been working with representatives from the private sector to come up with a Endangered Species Act plan to restore the population of black-footed ferrets in the northern part of the state. The problem, however, is that even if the plan goes forward, "nothing stops environ ...
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Minn. legislative committee recommends protections for the right to earn a living
Author: Timothy Sandefur Todd Zywicki reports on an effort in Minnesota to provide some serious protections for the right to earn a living. … ...
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The Surgeon General has concluded that fish should not smoke cigarettes
Author: Anne Hayes Sifting through articles on the internet is sometimes a painful job. Recently, I came across, on Time/CNN's Eco-centric blog, an article entitled A New Victim of Second-Hand Smoking: Fish. Here's the rundown: The article discussed a "study" performed by an anti-tobacco group. Th ...
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Coastal Commission denied unilateral power to impose fines and penalties
P.J. O’Rourke once said that “giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” That seems to hold true with the California Coastal Commission, an agency already drunk with the illusion of a near limitless power over the California coast. We have long detailed the examples of their attempt ...
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Utah goes to court over "Wild Lands"
Author: Daniel Himebaugh The State of Utah has filed a federal lawsuit to invalidate the Department of the Interior's "Wild Lands" policy. The Wild Lands policy took effect late last year, when Interior Secretary Ken Salazar issued Secretarial Order 3310. Pursuant to the Order, the Bureau of Land Management must inventor ...
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Sometimes, you just can't be green enough
Author: Anne Hayes Now and then you come across an article that just seems to beg for critique. I came across just such an article online titled "The Environmental Impact of Magazines." (How I got there: I confess I linked from an article mentioned in a comment on Time/CNN's eco-centric blog ...
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Groceries and K-12 education
Author: Timothy Sandefur Don Boudreaux, who’s always been especially good at explaining economic concepts in layman’s terms, writes, what if groceries were provided the same way that K-12 education is provided in this country? Residents of each county would pay taxes on their properties. Nearly half of those tax revenues would then be s ...