Lynne Kiesling New York Times columnist John Tierney and I share a hometown, Pittsburgh. In his column today (reg. req.), Tierney emphasizes some of the most appalling abuses of eminent domain that have been perpetrated in our hometown over the past several decades: Pittsburgh has been the great pioneer in eminent domain ever since its …
Lynne Kiesling One good piece of fallout from the May 16 Supreme Court decision on interstate wine shipment is New York’s new rule allowing wineries to ship to out of state customers. Happily, this law consequently allows New York customers to receive wine shipments from other states. Sadly, the news is not so sanguine in …
Lynne Kiesling Todd Zywicki’s post on the economics of Kelo is the most thorough analysis I’ve seen of the economics of eminent domain, holdout problems, and how that gets translated into a “public use”. Well worth a read. And if I owned an autographed photograph of Franco Harris’s Immaculate Reception, you couldn’t pry it out …
Lynne Kiesling Jacob Sullum’s Reason column about the New York Times’ support of the Kelo decision is incisive (and well titled!). My favorite part: The nonchalance of the Times regarding eminent domain abuse is of a piece with its derogation of property rights, which it sees as inferior to so-called human rights. (Try to imagine …
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Lynne Kiesling New, fresh voices rock, especially when they are saying good things in compelling and interesting ways. Such is the case with Liberty Belles, five classical liberal women with sharp wits and intellects. One post to illustrate the eloquence, from Clara on gay marriage: I favor allowing people to draw up these contracts, but …
Lynne Kiesling One long-standing conundrum in electric power is that digital information technology has the potential to create a lot of benefits and automate a lot of costly real-time functions, but that it is not widely enough deployed. Exciting work at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is contributing to resolving that conundrum, through transactive control …
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Lynne Kiesling So I did a Technorati search to see the current links to KP, and I noticed something that I think is very cool. Here are two of the four sponsored link advertisements down my left column: MoveTX-connect your utilities online, where you can choose from a variety of electric and phone service providers …
Lynne Kiesling Tyler’s got a link to some information on Germany’s ruling SDP’s proposal to impose an additional 3% income tax for those earning above 250,000 Euros. The appalling claim, though, is that the putative objective of this policy is to rally disaffected voters, not to raise any meaningful amount of tax revenue. What is …
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Lynne Kiesling Speaking of benefit-cost analysis, the new issue of The Economist’s Voice that came out yesterday has an article by Bob Hahn and Cass Sunstein on the precautionary principle. I have given it only a cursory reading, but it’s a good, readable argument about why the precautionary principle does not yield useful decision rules, …
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Lynne Kiesling OK, this is downright obscene: Starting Aug. 1, when the 2004 California Electrical Codes automatically take effect, residents will have to apply for a city building permits to replace or add wall, porch and ceiling lamps, light switches, electric receptacles, and other common do-it-yourself chores. So changing that noisy electrical switch with a …
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