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Alliance of feds, activist groups threatens rural America
Opinion -One of the most potent political alliances to emerge in the United States in recent years is carrying out a well-coordinated and unrelenting assault on the nation's rural communities. -
Bush Forest Service, federal judge further restrict logging
Opinion -Anti-market activist groups won two significant victories in December and January as first the Bush Forest Service, and then a federal district judge, placed new restrictions on timber recovery in the American West. -
No. 97 – Dreams, Plans, and Reality: A Critique of Chicago Metropolis 2020
Publication -Policy Studies -Quick Links Policy Study (pdf) Chicago Metropolis 2020, produced in 1999 by the Commercial Club, attempts to tell us who should do what to make the metropolitan area a more nearly ideal place. -
NAS panel investigates Klamath water shutoff
Opinion -At the direction of Interior Secretary Gale Norton, the National Academy of Sciences has assembled a panel of 11 scientists to investigate the shutoff of irrigation water to farmers in the Klamath Basin of California and Oregon. -
Greener than you think
Opinion -"That the human race faces environmental problems is unquestionable. That environmental experts have regularly tried to scare us out of our wits with doomsday chants is also beyond dispute. -
It’s time to reclaim our rights
Opinion -Once again, the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has proven itself to be subservient to radical environmental groups, stopping the salvage of dead and dying trees in northern Idaho and eastern Washington. -
Forest Service report betrays fallen heroes
Opinion -The past few months have taught us all the true meaning of the word "hero. -
Klamath Basin a departure from common-sense environmentalism
Opinion -This spring, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation shut off irrigation water to 1,400 farmers and 210,000 acres of land in the Klamath River Basin of Southern Oregon and Northern California, effectively ending farming for the year. -
Not the first time
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CARA double-talk prevails
Opinion -Montana's new Congressman, Denny Rehberg, recently faced a tough vote. He had to choose between fulfilling campaign promises or fitting in with the dominant culture in Washington, DC: the liberal elite big-government crowd. -
Opinion: What ever happened to common sense?
Opinion -Have we lost our moral compass, our sense of priorities . . . our marbles? We send our military men and women off to the Middle East to be maimed and killed by terrorists and Scud missiles, while protecting our interests in this vital oil region. -
PERC proposes reforms of environmental policy
Opinion -PERC-The Center for Free-Market Environmentalism, a Bozeman, Montana-based policy research group, is proposing a series of changes in Interior Department and Forest Service policies to make those agencies more supportive of free-market environmentalism. -
EPA criticized for selective enforcement
Opinion -The Environmental Protection Agency has come under fire from politicians and environmentalists for selectively enforcing EPA regulations. -
Klamath farmers defy feds
Opinion -Farmers in Oregon's drought-stricken Klamath Basin celebrated Independence Day by repeatedly defying federal Bureau of Reclamation officials, diverting small streams of water from Upper Klamath Lake for their thirsting crops. -
Environmental protection through free-market principles
Opinion -Kathleen Benedetto is program director of the National Wilderness Institute (NWI). -
Government regulators quizzed about Klamath
Opinion -Forty-six days following a federal decision to strip a community of its livelihood, economy, and pride by enacting a cutoff of irrigation water to protect fish species, members of the California State Assembly Committee on Water, Parks and Wildlife -
Fly-in for Freedom rallies free-market environmentalists
Opinion -Environmental protection does not require violating private property rights or heavy-handed federal government intrusion, concluded participants in the Alliance for America's Eleventh Annual Fly-In for Freedom. -
Bucket Brigade for ESA reform
Opinion -April 6, 2001, is a day that will live in infamy in the lives of thousands of people in the Klamath Basin region of Northern California and Southern Oregon. -
Klamath Falls bucket brigade protests water shutoff
Opinion -More than 20,000 people held a “bucket brigade” in Klamath Falls, Oregon on May 7 to protest the federal government’s decision to cut off irrigation water that serves more than 90 percent of the farmers in the area. -
Airlines seek speedier reviews for new runways
Opinion -Responding to increasing flight delays and overcrowded airports, airline industry officials are urging government officials to streamline the environmental review process for the construction of new runways. -
Congress considers property rights protections, wise use plans
Opinion -The early days of the 107th Congress are shaping up as far more friendly to property rights advocates than the past several years. -
Unfond memories of Bruce Babbitt
Opinion -We are all extremely fortunate that Gale Norton has become the new Secretary of the Interior of the United States. -
Supreme Court strikes down bird habitat rule
Opinion -In a major victory for private property rights proponents, the United States Supreme Court has struck down a rule giving the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authority to regulate isolated and wholly intrastate "ponds and mudflats. -
ACLU challenges anti-protester rules
Opinion -From a tea party in Boston Harbor to Vietnam War marches, protesting against government is firmly rooted in the American psyche.
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