by Jane Richey | Feb 24, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility
With budgets tighter than ever, cities across America are increasingly looking for more free labor. Nowhere is that trend more evident than Yakima, Wash. “More and more every year, a large part of what we do is volunteers,” says Archie Matthews, Yakima’s director of...
by Jane Richey | Feb 24, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility
Often when a city starts talking about using eminent domain powers to seize private property, the owners of that property claim they’re being cheated. But in Allentown, Pa., questions are being raised over whether the city actually paid too much for a string of...
by Jane Richey | Feb 24, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
A Wall Street Journal investigation into the relationship between job-creation claims by the Obama administration and stimulus money targeted toward the development and expansion of our nation’s “green” energy sector has revealed an apparent disconnect between...
by Jane Richey | Feb 24, 2012 | Alerts, Constitutionally Limited Goverment
A multi-community effort focused on coordinating greenway and trail work in Venango and Crawford counties is marking its third year in operation and needs continued support to bring a number of projects to fruition, according to the program coordinator. “We have so...
by Jane Richey | Feb 24, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
“They…come in with weapons, they seized a half-million dollars worth of property, they shut our factory down, and they have not charged us with anything,” says Gibson Guitars CEO Henry Juszkiewicz, referring to the August 2011 raid on his Nashville and Memphis...
