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Nevada Rancher Threatens "Range War" Over What He Sees as Illegitimate Bureau...
Cliven Bundy, a Nevada cattle rancher, has threatened a "range war" with the federal government as its Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has begun confiscating his cattle. The BLM is mad at Bundy for...
View ArticleNevada County Commissioner Implies a Death Threat Against Out-of-Staters Who...
UPDATE: As of Saturday morning, the BLM has announced, ABC News reports, that it will for now cease trying to enforce the court order against Bundy and is leaving the area: "Based on information about...
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Bundy Ranch Showdown Not Over If Harry Reid Has Anything to Say About It
Over the weekend, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced it would stop trying to enforce a court order against Cliven Bundy over grazing fees the agency says Bundy owes them. Cattle from the...
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Colorado County Bullies Couple into Handing Over Land for Non-Use
The Barries, Ceil and Andy, of Summit County, Colorado, have been fighting their local government, which was trying to use eminent domain to seize their land and keep it "open space." The Barries...
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The Bundy Ranch Standoff and Attitudes Toward the State
The immediate "crisis" portion of the standoff involving the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy over his cattle grazing on federal land ended last week. Whether...
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Battle Over Western Lands is Far Bigger Than the Bundy Controversy
The recent face-off between the Bundy family and its supporters on the one hand, and the Bureau of Land Management and its enablers on the other, is hardly the first word in the tussle between...
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Jay Austin's Beautiful, Illegal Tiny House
Demand for housing in Washington, D.C., is going through the roof. Over a thousand people move to the nation's capital every month, driving up the cost of housing, and turning the city into a...
View ArticleReason TV: Should More Land Use Scholars Be Libertarians?
In a recent Washington Post article, Ilya Somin responded to a provocative question raised by liberal land use scholar Kenneth Stahl. Given the failure of so many left-leaning land use policies, Stahl...
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How the Government Subsidizes Unsustainable Development
Over at Yale Environment 360, Rona Kobell (*) writes about efforts to build—and rebuild—on ecologically precarious barrier islands. You should read the whole article, but the passage that's most likely...
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America's Least Sprawling City Is...Los Angeles?
Which of America's metropolitan regions has the least sprawl? Thomas Laidley, a sociologist at New York University, has just published a paper in the Urban Affairs Review that draws on satellite and...
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How New York City's Landmarks Preservation Act Bulldozed the Future
Once upon a time New York City's builders blithely turned spectacular monuments into dust. Henry James complained about Manhattan’s "restless renewals," but in the old days nostalgia was for writers...
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The Destruction of Penn Station Led to the Landmarks Preservation Movement....
In all the hoopla surrounding the 50th anniversary of New York's Landmarks Preservation Act—Mayor Robert F. Wagner signed the legislation exactly a half century ago today—you'll see plenty of photos of...
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Rand Paul, White House, Want Oregon Standoff Resolved Cautiously. Why Don’t...
Various Republican candidates are calling for a peaceful resolution to the armed occupation of a remote federal outpost in Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Sen. Rand Paul had this to say,...
View ArticleMatt Welch Talks Oregon Standoff on All in with Chris Hayes Tonight
The standoff in Oregon has already prompted a lot of silly culture-war commentary, and disappointingly scant analysis of the precipitating legal conflicts (though this historical overview of standoffs...
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Whatever's Going on in Oregon, It's Not Terrorism
A key to understanding the political world lies in realizing that the words terrorism and terrorist are inherently political terms. This has been clear in international affairs, but we now see this in...
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