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01 Sep 2020

Biden Plans To Destroy Suburbs

There are many reasons to vote against the Democratic pedophile Joe Biden, but key among them is to prevent implementation of his plan to destroy the suburbs. In essence, his plan would strip suburban towns, villages and cities of their power to zone. The federal government would usurp that function, further empowering its ability to downgrade the suburbs and just plop high-rise apartments or other unwelcome zoning anywhere and everywhere, willy-nilly without consideration of the impact upon existing residents or their homes and properties.  Styxhexenhammer666 explains what’s afoot.

Suburbanites: listen up and listen good! Do not be dumbos and vote for a Dumbo like Joe Biden.

 

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20 Jan 2013

The War on Fast Food

Is there any phase of our lives some two-bit politician doesn’t want to control?

Maryland’s Prince George’s County has the highest obesity rates in the Washington, D.C. area. So now the county council is considering a bill that would give it zoning authority to keep new fast food eateries out of its jurisdiction. But is tackling obesity as easy as keeping cheeseburgers and fries out of people’s hands? H/T Reason.TV

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21 Nov 2012

Athens of the Prairie

Columbus, Indiana is a city of around 40,000 people located an hour south of Indianapolis. Columbus is exactly the kind of city you’d expect to find in the Midwest, except for one curious thing. The American Institute of Architects has ranked Columbus 6th in the nation for architectural innovation and design, right behind New York, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco and Washington, DC.

The architectural richness of Columbus isn’t the result of some visionary planning board. Nor are the zoning laws in Columbus different than those in most other Indiana cities. Columbus has fascinating architecture because in the 1950s industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller (of the Cummins Engine Company) decided that he wanted to live in a more visually interesting city. To this end, Miller offered to pay the architect’s bill for any new public building in Columbus. Today, Columbus boasts more than 70 buildings designed by internationally celebrated architects like I.M. Pei, Eliel Saarinen, Eero Saarinen, Richard Meier and Harry Weese. H/T Reason.TV

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01 Sep 2012

Feds “Stimulate” Soda Taxes

Reason TV’s Nanny of the Month Award for August goes to Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the US Health and Human Services Department. Sebelius won because her department used Stimulus and Obamacare funds to back campaigns imposing local soda taxes and enacting tougher zoning rules for fast-food restaurants. Besides violating the job-creating intent of the Stimulus program, the department’s Office of Inspector General is now investigating whether these campaigns violated federal anti-lobbying provisions.

Reason TV also named two runners-up for the August Nanny of the Month Award:

  • The State of Nevada, which can levy a fine of up to $2,000 if you teach someone how to apply makeup without the necessary certification.
  • And the City of Phoenix, where a code enforcer threatened a woman for handing out free water, without a license, on a day when the temperatures hit 112 degrees.

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