May state legislative applications limit an Article V convention? Subject, yes; specific language, probably not
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- September 12, 2013
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Coincidence? Maybe, Maybe Not0
- TRANSPORTATION - Miscellaneous
- December 15, 2011
Last Friday, December 9, the Detroit News published the Antiplanner’s critique of Detroit’s proposed Woodward light-rail line. On Tuesday, December 13, “the feds, the governor and the mayor” decided that bus-rapid transit makes more sense, so they killed the light-rail plan.
READ MOREHighway Cost Overruns0
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- December 14, 2011
Numerous state highway programs have suffered cost overruns, say the Gannett papers (which include USA Today). What’s striking from the story, however, is how small and rare the cost overruns really are. The papers found overruns in 19 states, but they focused on projects that actually had overruns and did not reveal how many projects […]
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Central Planning Gone Wild0
- TRANSPORTATION - Miscellaneous
- December 13, 2011
In 1957, Nikita Khrushchev bragged that the Soviet Union would overtake the United States in production of steel and other important products within 15 years. Not to be outdone, Mao Zedong immediately decided that China’s own steel industry would overtake Britain’s–then the world’s second-leading manufacturing country (14). Thus began the Great Leap Forward, one of […]
READ MOREIs the U.N. Taking Over America?0
- TRANSPORTATION - Miscellaneous
- December 12, 2011
At a recent meeting about Oregon’s land-use planning system, someone asked how much Agenda 21 has influenced Oregon’s laws and rules. The answer the Antiplanner gave was a big, fat zero. Agenda 21, after all, was written in 1992, while Oregon’s legislature passed the state’s land-use law in 1973. The most radical conception of that […]
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