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from Business Insider
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]Here's why we should grant statehood to America's core cities
Today, we live in a country where the status quo of state boundaries are accepted as immutable, so conflicting groups take to the courts so one side can force its values on the other side. But, it doesn't have to be this way. A better response is to decentralize and allow urban core areas to act with greater independence from the suburban and rural areas that surround them.
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from KIRO 7 Eyewitness News (CBS Seattle)
State of emergency for fire danger declared for all Washington counties
Gov. Jay Inslee has declared a state of emergency for all counties in the state of Washington due to wildfire dangers. In his proclamation Gov. Inslee wrote: "Since June 2017, we have experienced drier than normal weather conditions with periods of above average temperatures throughout the State which, when combined with projected weather and fire fuel conditions for early September, present a high risk of severe wildfires throughout the State of Washington."
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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]All over the United States, we celebrate Labor Day, a day dedicated to the glories of the American worker. It is the American worker who is said to be responsible for our great standard of living, and for the success of the American Dream. This argument is flawed. Workers are fine, but it was the discovery of capital that made possible the standards of living of today. In our capital-based world, trade is handled with interstate trucking, airplanes, and huge ships with multi-ton cargo holds. Indeed, it is likely that more trade occurs in a single day in our capital-based world than occurred in any single year, any decade, or possibly even any entire century, before the Renaissance.
Public Policy Always Costs Somebody Something
Teaching and writing about public policy for more than half my life has taught me that most of the errors made in that realm are not complicated or sophisticated, beyond the ability of “ordinary people” to understand. They are failures to apply basic logical and economic principles. The complications and sophistication mainly arise from efforts to disguise the misrepresentations and wealth transfers being committed, when policies are designed, presented and scored. Choosing in the face of scarcity means bearing the costs of foregoing other things we also value with every choice.
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from New Statesman
"The leading voice of the British left, since 1913."
It seems little more than an exercise in googling, an attempt to sell the listicle as literature.
from The Spokesman-Review
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