Obama Stimulus Plan
ChrisB on Jan 09 2009 | Filed under: Around the Web
Tag Archive 'reason'
Whatever Happened to Municipal Wifi?
ChrisB on Dec 31 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
GMU Law Professor, and sometimes Reason contributor Thomas W. Hazlett looks at what happened to the myriad of “free municipal wifi” promises from cities a few years ago.
Sphere: Related ContentCross Corroboration
ChrisB on Aug 19 2008 | Filed under: Blogs, Chris' Page, Election 2008
McQ find some general backing up of John McCain’s Vietnam cross story. Not to be outdone by Andrew Sullivan and Daily Kos, Matt Welch at Reason thinks the cross story is the least important story McCain might have made up.
If any of these stories is a lie, I hope it’s the ol’ cross-in-the-dirt number. I wouldn’t want to think that any American hero came home and announced to a deeply skeptical public a totally made-up story about how not one, but two different “generals” spelled out a Domino Theory that McCain himself would later recognize as being bogus.
This is of course, all silly distraction that bloggers and the media love to get wrapped up in to fill in the gaps in this year long election coverage we’ve had this cycle. There’s simply no way to prove that the story didn’t happen and lots of way for people to look silly obsessing over this non-story.
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ChrisB on Jun 20 2008 | Filed under: Chris' Page, Domestic Politics, Law
Damon Root at Reason takes a look at what’s happened in the three years since Kelo v. City of New London. By now, even non-cynical people can’t be surprised.
So what’s the status of the “comprehensive” and “revitalized” development site today? Here’s the Institute for Justice, the libertarian public interest firm that litigated the case:
Like so many other projects that use eminent domain and rely on taxpayer subsidies, New London’s Fort Trumbull project has been a failure. After spending $78 million in taxpayer dollars, the city of New London and the private developer have engaged in no new construction since the project was approved in 2000. Indeed, since the property owners disputing the takings owned less than two acres in a 90-acre project area, the city has always had a vast majority of the land available for development. Yet, no new development has occurred. The preferred developer for part of the site, Corcoran Jennison, recently missed its latest deadline for securing financing for building on the site and was terminated as the “designated developer.”
This has been a tragedy all around.
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