Daily Archives: March 27, 2011
Repeal Senate Bill 3
Recent newspaper articles have discussed the John Locke Foundation’s view that the state legislature should repeal the 2007 state renewable energy mandate bill (SB 3). Here’s a bit more information on why SB 3 should be repealed, along with some thoughts about the views expressed in those articles. The SB 3 Mandate SB 3 mandatesContinue Reading
The missing “C” word
In an otherwise fair-minded column about Republican proposals to limit the terms of leaders in the General Assembly, the N&O‘s Rob Christensen ignores the elephant in the room: corruption. Christensen portrays the concern over lengthy tenures as a simple civics lesson over separation of powers, stemming from the reforms in the 1970s allowing governors toContinue Reading