All Posts Tagged With: "Ohio"
Big Brother Is Watching You Recycle
In 2009, after four years of controversial and piecemeal policies intended to enforce recycling, England imposed a complex and compulsory system of garbage-sorting on homeowners. Citing the British model, Cleveland, Ohio, is taking a giant step toward a similar scheme of compulsory recycling. In 2011 some 25,000 households will be required to use recycling bins fitted [...]
24Nov2010 | Wendy McElroy | 28 comments | ContinuedDowntown Revitalization: City Governments Versus Consumers
What a thrill to visit cities that have “revitalized” their downtown areas! From the empty streets to the government offices to the abandoned retail spaces—what’s not to like? Well, everything, of course. Not only are such areas unsightly and useless, they often come at the expense of millions of taxpayer dollars and eminent-domain coercion. There’s [...]
1Apr2008 | Jacob H. Huebert | 3 comments | ContinuedProtecting Property in a Post-Kelo World
Two years ago, when I began writing a book,
peoples eyes would glaze over when I told them
the subject was eminent domain, the power of
the government to take property by force on just
compensation to the owner. Rarely could I mention the
subject without having to explain it in detail, and
incredulity was a typical response to the realization that
government now takes property for private uses rather
than for the public uses allowed by the
Constitution.
The Cuyahoga Revisited
Stacie Thomas is an economist with the Senate Banking Committee in Washington, D.C. This is adapted from PERC Reports, June 1999. Early in the summer of 1969, the Cuyahoga River caught fire. Piles of logs, picnic benches, and other debris had collected below a railroad trestle, which impeded their movement down the river. These piles [...]
1May2000 | Stacie Thomas | 2 comments | ContinuedSmuggled Cigarettes, Unteachable Politicians
John Attarian is an adjunct scholar with the Midland, Michigan-based Mackinac Center for Public Policy, and a nonsmoker. “Only one thing in history is certain: that mankind is unteachable,” Winston Churchill told his dinner guests one night in January 1941.[1] He was discussing international relations, but it goes for politicians’ economic blunders, too. Indeed, Churchill’s [...]
1Sep1998 | John Attarian | 7 comments | Continued-
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