Independence Institute

Another Smart-Growth Plot?0
- TRANSPORTATION - Miscellaneous
- February 14, 2011
“Under Obama’s proposal, fewer to own homes,” reported the Antiplanner’s local paper. The paper was reprinting an article from the New York Times, whose original headline was the slightly less inflammatory, “Administration calls for cutting aid to homebuyers.” Is this another smart-growth plot to restrict homeownership only to the wealthy? Or is it a rational […]
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New Forest Planning Rules 0
- TRANSPORTATION - Miscellaneous
- February 11, 2011
A curious article in the New York Times says the Forest Service has a “new plan to manage the national forest system.” This new plan, says the Times, is 97 pages long (actually only 94) and has environmentalists upset because it no longer requires the agency to protect minimum viable populations of wildlife. In reality, […]
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Audio: Sentencing Reform in the 2011 Colorado General Assembly 0
- JUSTICE - Drug Policy, JUSTICE - Prison Spending and Sentencing, JUSTICE - Video & Audio
- February 10, 2011
On Tuesday, February 8th the Independence Institute’s Justice Policy Initiative, the Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition, and the Pew Center on the States came together again to hold a panel event at the University Club to discuss the work by the Colorado Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice (CCJJ) and sentencing reform in 2011. Despite
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High-Speed Train Wreck 0
- TRANSPORTATION - Miscellaneous
- February 10, 2011
Secretary of Immobility Ray LaHood says the administration’s high-speed rail fantasy won’t be derailed. But remember, this is the guy who said “there is no stopping” high-speed rail in Wisconsin a few months before the November election–and then he killed Wisconsin’s project himself when the “wrong party’s” candidate won the governorship. Wikipedia commons photo of […]
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