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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Remember When Transit Used to Be Efficient?0
- TRANSPORTATION - Miscellaneous
- December 6, 2011
Arlington County, Virginia wants to spend $261 million building a streetcar line that, just four years ago, was expected to cost $100 million less. The streetcar’s costs are now expected to average $50 million a mile. That’s quite literally insane. When San Diego built the first modern light-rail line, which opened in 1981, it cost […]
READ MOREForthcoming Book: American Nightmare0
- TRANSPORTATION - Miscellaneous
- December 5, 2011
The American dream of families owning their own homes has become a victim of class warfare, with the middle class attempting to suppress homeownership among the working class and other people they view as undesirable neighbors. That, at least, is one of the major themes of American Nightmare: How Government Undermines the Dream of Home […]
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If You Don’t Like the Data, Attack the Messenger0
- TRANSPORTATION - Miscellaneous
- December 2, 2011
California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office announced this week that the state is about to waste $6 billion or more starting construction on a high-speed rail line that will never be completed. “The availability of funding to complete a usable segment is highly uncertain,” said the report, to which the Antiplanner responds, “Duh!” Yet some people aren’t […]
READ MORERemember When “Transit” Meant “Transportation”?0
- TRANSPORTATION - Miscellaneous
- December 1, 2011
Portland’s TriMet transit agency is spending more than $370,000 to install solar panels on a downtown building. This will initially save the agency less than $3,700 a year, and even if the savings increase over time, when interest is counted there will be something close to a 100-year payback period. Someone comments on the above […]
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