Showing posts with label local. Show all posts
Showing posts with label local. Show all posts
Local Gov'ts Are Increasingly Poking Through Your Garbage
by Jenna McLaughlin. "Nothing is safe, not even our trash." Civil libertarians are worried about an increasingly common form of domestic surveillance that has nothing to do with listening to your phone calls or reading your emails; it has to do with looking through your garbage. Municipalities across the United States are implementing ... MOREJohn Hood: Laboratories For Prosperity
Confirmation of free-market principles. Over the past three decades, America's state and local governments have experienced a large and underappreciated divergence. Some places, usually but not always led by Republicans, have become friendlier to free enterprise. Other places, usually but not always led by Democrats, have become ... MORELocal Cops Have NSA-like Spying Powers For Social Media
Little Brother is in your business too. Local law enforcement is getting the kind of technological boost that used to be limited to three-letter agencies, thanks to Web-based software services that mine social media for intelligence. At last month's International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) conference in Philadelphia, LexisNexis showed ... MOREBarry Farber On The Perils Of Making On-Air Bets
A debt paid and a lesson learned. It may have been the best magazine cartoon – ever! Penguins are the only animals in tuxedos. Imagine an Antarctic ice cap with hundreds of tuxedoed penguins, and one penguin wearing a natty beret, a gold chain, sunglasses and a checkered vest while sporting a rhinestone-studded cigarette holder. A curious gaggle ... MOREStanley Kurtz: California's Dangerous Proposition 31
The revolution will not be publicized. We are two months away from fundamentally transforming the State of
California, and barely anyone knows it. With a five to six point lead
in the latest poll, Proposition 31 has a solid shot at passage. The
measure is meant to bail out California’s failing cities by creating
regional super-governments empowered to raid ... MORE
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