Blog Municipal Internet Refuses To Die By: Ryan Radia 11/01/2007 Today the Senate Commerce Committee passed the Community Broadband Act, ArsTechnica reports. The bill preempts state laws banning publicly funded Internet and allows…
Blog Mailed Fist Environmentalism By: Doug Bandow 11/01/2007 The time for wimpy, squishy, liberal environmentalism is past. The crisis is so deep that it’s time to take more, shall we say, “serious” steps.
Blog Ways and Means approves US-Peru trade pact By: Fran Smith 11/01/2007 The House Ways and Means Committee yesterday cleared the way for a full House vote next week on the U.S.-Peru Free Trade Agreement, H.R. 3688.
Blog AIDS Funding Wasted, As Usual By: Hans Bader 11/01/2007 It turns out that the billions of dollars that have been spent on international AIDS programs have largely been wasted. In some places, like…
Blog Splitting Hairs on Speech By: Michelle Minton 11/01/2007 I always worry when a government body starts to sound philosophic. As Ivan noted in his post, the Department of the Interior is struggling…
Blog Senate votes to increase Amtrak subsidy By: Marlo Lewis, Jr. 10/31/2007 So reports today’s New York Times (Oct 31, 07, p. A10). The Senate voted 70 to 22 to authorize $11.4 billion, or $1.9 billion a…
