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$40,000 civil penalty, class D felony

…grow of reporters being delayed or stopped and questioned, denied timely access to beaches, police and Homeland Security personel giving BP security personnel information on reporters, this is something to…

The Necessary and Improper Clause?

…faction of the Republican base. So, for example, the police powers of the federal government and of state and local governments never violate the Constitution unless the right at issue…

Why taxes are important

…of town or the other side of the continent. We do so because our shared community cannot exist without resources–to pave the streets, pay the police, support medical research that…

More Detail on Working the Refs

…second stimulus—even though the states are hemorrhaging money and, soon, jobs. (Teachers, police and fire–you know, all the nonessential personnel.) It’s a heads-we-win-tails-we-win-more situation being set up. If we pretend…

When Economic Stress Becomes Terrorism

…Representative Lloyd Doggett of Texas released a statement calling it “a cowardly act of domestic terrorism.” Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said he preferred to describe it as “a criminal…

The Superbowl and local economics

…the cost to taxpayers of hosting the Super Bowl. According to Porter, “most of those expenditures are hidden in a budget,” such as police overtime or other necessary community enhancements….

Score the War

police based on a country’s population. In Afghanistan that equates to 600,000 people in uniform. But the Afghani government has never maintained more than 200,000 before. Can they really sustain…