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Relevance: 31% Posted on: October 7, 2023
On October 7, 1691, the charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay was issued. Also on a seventh day of the tenth month, King George III issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which closed Indigenous lands in North America north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlements. On October 7, 1792, George…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: November 28, 2011
Councilman Rick Roelle in Apple Valley, California, says that Wal-Mart “blackmailed the town.” Blackmail is no small matter. So, what did Wal-Mart do, specifically? Wal-Mart worked with citizens of Apple Valley, including supplying money, to gather enough petition signatures to place a measure on the local ballot for voters to…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: January 14, 2011
Local government is hard. In rural areas, it can be like organizing an ongoing bake-sale. In metropolitan areas, it’s more like running a small country. Today’s big metropolitan governments tend to be run by un-term-limited oligarchs, so of course corruption is endemic. When there’s little competition for power and scant…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: December 13, 2010
Why does a fellow who’s the executive director of the Greenlining Institute want to red-line democracy? Recently, in the pages of California’s Capitol Weekly, Orson Aguilar called the state’s initiative process a “monster.” Mr. Aguilar’s main beef is that “huge corporations and business groups” spent “massive” amounts of money, and…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: September 1, 2009
I almost feel sorry for politicians so afraid of angry freedom-loving constituents that they couldn’t even hold a townhall meeting this summer to spout reassuring lies about the Democrats’ medical reform proposals. I say, “almost feel sorry” . . . well, not quite “almost” — Okay, I don’t feel sorry…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: March 21, 2011
On March 15, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez got the boot, with almost nine out of ten county voters (88 percent) agreeing to get rid of him. The Miami Herald calls the event “the largest recall of a local politician in U.S. history.” Brandon Holmes of Citizens in Charge calls it…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: September 23, 2011
Californians’ initiative, referendum and recall process is as hot a topic for debate as ever. That’s apt, for this year marks the process’s 100th anniversary. On October 10, 1911, Californians went to the polls to enact these democratic checks on government after Governor Hiram Johnson persuaded legislators to put them…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: April 8, 2010
The New York Times offers summer internships at $900 per week. From what I’ve gathered, most other editorial and journalistic internships don’t pay nearly that much. Many pay nothing. So why would anyone work for nothing? Well, for experience. Thomas Sowell, in his recent book Applied Economics, tells the story…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: May 10, 2012
What do small businesses worry about the most? I mean, besides serving their customers? Regulation — licensing in particular. At least when rating government, owners of small businesses surveyed by Thumbtack.com indicated that “licensing requirements were nearly twice as important as tax rates in determining their state or city government’s…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: February 2, 2010
Advocates of campaign finance regulation, what George Will calls "speech rationing," say letting corporations -- including non-profit corporations -- spend unlimited money on political speech corrupts democracy. Actually, muzzling speech is what corrupts democracy and the point of it: i.e., to protect our freedoms, including freedom of speech. Protecting these…