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Business, City, Food, Liberty, Local Government

The Game of Thrones Food Trucks

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The Institute of Justice, the nation’s leading libertarian public interest law firm, asks a question about Chicago that would be as fitting of other cities’ regulators: Should the city of Chicago be in the business of protecting a few politically connected restaurateurs from competition? That is the question to be answered by a major lawsuit…

City, Food, Free Markets, Laws/Regulations, Liberty

Whitewater’s ‘Transient Merchant’ Ordinance is Only Half That

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Whitewater has a Transient Merchant Ordinance, at Chapter 5.28, et seq., of her Municipal Code, but the ordinance’s title is only half right. It’s not merely an ordinance that restricts food trucks’ sales, but also and necessarily consumers’ purchases. It’s part Transient Merchant Ordinance and part Consumer Restriction Ordinance. Each and every time a city…

America, Liberty, Local Government

The Municipal War Against…Vegetable Gardens

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In America, and places beyond, homeowners’ vegetable gardens have become a target of municipal officials. They’re beautiful, offer fresh food, conserve water, and are peaceful uses of homeowners’ private property: yet for it all, vegetable gardens still offend officials’ laughable sense of what’s appropriate. That appropriateness in this case is little more than a dull…

Animals, City, Liberty

What is Whitewater?

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One hears much about the city, of serving the city, and public service.  Yet, for all one hears, what is Whitewater? It’s every resident, of a number now nearly fifteen-thousand.  That’s a number far larger than those in city government, those working for the city, or those few who are quite sure that all the…

Law, Libertarians, Liberty

Justice Kennedy the….Libertarian

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The Cato Institute’s David Boaz teases the venerable Time magazine about its cover story on Justice Anthony Kennedy’s supposedly inscrutable jurisprudence. (Time is a survivor – it’s really the only remaining newsmagazine of its kind; it’s fared far better than rival publications.) Massimo Calabresi and David Von Drehle write in that magazine that Efforts to…

Liberty

The Right to Bargain with Government

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It is a simple principle of liberty that any person, in any employ, should have the right to bargain peacefully with, and even against, his or her own government. No worldly thing is as powerful as the state: it alone possesses the right to tax and to arrest. No matter how influential other institutions may…

City, Elections, Liberty, Wisconsin

The Secular Call

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For the first time in her history, likely not to be repeated in our time, Wisconsin votes on the recall of her governor. If you are well and able, will you not turn out today? From every part of this beautiful but divided state, citizens will pour out to vote, exercising their right to select…