The Open Market Blog

• By: Michelle Minton
• 03/05/2010

March 27th at 8:30pm local time is Human Achievement Hour once again! In the lead-up to this year’s celebration of the event, we’ve…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 03/02/2010

March 27th at 8:30pm local time folks will be sitting in the dark to cast their vote for global climate action. While most of the…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 02/24/2010

Could a private organization get away with handling the Snowpocalypse/Snowmegeddon the way the District of Columbia department of transportation handled it? Maybe, but they wouldn’t…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 02/17/2010

Vets mean serious business when it comes to protecting their industry from competition in Oklahoma. Similar to other states, OK vets are taking…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 02/12/2010

Imagine that you brave the cold to complete the laborious task of carving out a parking space on some snow encrusted street. How pissed off…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 02/11/2010

A billboard appeared in Wyoming, Minn. this week (the person/org responsible is still unknown) with the visage of former President George W. Bush asking…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 02/09/2010

Judges in California continue to surprise observers nationwide by repeatedly making rational decisions. At least, rational decisions about the adult film industry in the…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 01/22/2010

Insurance commissioner of Washington State, Mike Kreidler wants the legislature to ban the use of credit scores from the measurements insurers use in determining…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 01/15/2010

Coastal residents in NC are trying to fight a deal that would allow insurance companies to increase the rates for property insurance in these…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 12/10/2009

As I blogged about earlier this month over at the Objective Standard, states are beginning to…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 12/09/2009

While it is certainly is good news that the state of Maryland hasn’t denied permission to developers hoping to install slots in a new…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 12/03/2009

Let’s face it, in this era, liberty-minded folk are in the minority (as if there was a time we were the majority). However, just because…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 11/20/2009

Earlier this week my colleague Ryan Young posted a blog about the FCC’s proposal to increase access to and decrease the cost of broadband…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 11/19/2009

More cash/Fewer Clunkers Via the Von Mises blog:  According to the consumer pricing index report released by the Bureau of Labor…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 11/15/2009

Here’s an interesting video from ReasonTV (a Reason Magazine offshoot) that mimics the popular UPS whiteboard commercials. In this video Nick…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 11/13/2009

The FDA is getting into the business of mixing drinks.  Employing a dangerously questionable array of regulatory powers, the agency is trying to determine if…