Michael Giberson The e-mails show that, in the bureaucracy that serves Fairfax’s 1.1 million residents, a change in policy can have unintended results. Fairfax County, in an effort to weed out unneeded cars from the county’s fleet, targeted cars recording fewer than 4,500 miles per year of use. As the story relates, county employees were …
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Michael Giberson More than a month has gone by since the one-year anniversary of the 2005 Energy Policy Act, which means that the final report to Congress of the five member inter-agency Electric Energy Market Competition Task Force is more than a month past due. The task force, composed of staffers from the Department of …
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Michael Giberson On the Washington Monthly site, Kevin Drum took the occasion of a New York Times story on California’s new greenhouse gases law to praise California for its dedication to energy efficiency and conservation. Drum reported a decline in per capita energy use in the state since 1970, which happened, he said, “largely because …
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Michael Giberson Maryland’s highest court has ruled that the state’s legislature overstepped its authority when it passed a law firing the five members of the Public Service Commission and directing the Governor to appoint replacements from a legislature-selected list of candidates. All is not yet sweetness and light in Maryland, however, as one prominent gubernatorial …
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Lynne Kiesling One of the most important, and least understood, economic relationships is tax incidence. Policymakers often hold the mistaken belief that when they impose a tax on a particular type of income, the people who create and earn that income are the ones who pay the tax. What they fail to understand is that …
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Lynne Kiesling Radley Balko on lobbying: Do they not understand that lobbying is the inevitable, inescapeable product of a massive federal government? … If Franks is really concerned about corporate power and corruption in Washington, the best way to address his concerns would be to stop giving Washington so much power, and so much discretion …
Lynne Kiesling What if you show up to the airport today with your laptop? I would not check a bag with my laptop in it for either love or money. I would turn around and cancel my trip. Would they let me put that in my plastic bag with my wallet and passport? UPDATE: I …
Lynne Kiesling Thank goodness this plot has been averted. Given the immediate restrictions on hand baggage etc., I am very glad that I am not flying anywhere in the next month.
Lynne Kiesling The radio silence from yours truly has been due to the concatenation (one of my favorite words) of two events: a project deadline today and my participation as a faculty member in the Institute for Humane Studies seminar Freedom, Tolerance, and Civil Society (note the serial comma, so there, Tom!). I gave three …
Lynne Kiesling Senator Ted Stevens and his complete and utter incoherence and lack of understanding of the Internet is appalling. The fewer decisions we leave in the hands of politicians, the better off we will all be. When will we go back to thinking about ourselves as a republic, and do sensible things like appointing …
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