Property Rights

Wanted to share these video entries to the APEE/MBM Communicators contest. Check 'em out while gnoshing your lunch, maybe learn a lil something:Part OnePart TwoThanks,Max Borders ... Keep Reading

Without a edict from government, Sheraton Hotels have decided to go entirely smoke-free. After seeing business after business deciding on its own to set its own smoking policy, can ... Keep Reading

If votDaren Bakst has a great N&O piece about open space and all the silliness involved in that. Check it out:If voters want to push government control of property that will ... Keep Reading

In a victory for the free-market, and what many will call a pretty big risk considering the clientèle and industry, the N&O reports that the Buffaloe Lanes bowling alleys ... Keep Reading

While members of the Democrat-controlled General Assembly are patting themselves on the back for their "compromise budget", no one seems to be moving on a Constitutional ... Keep Reading

Thomas Stith audio on the NC General Assembly's failure to act on a state constitutional amendment protecting private property rights from developers colluding with government. ... Keep Reading

Jack Betts outlines the political (i.e., non-market) measures to "save urban spaces." Under the ambiguous rubric of the "common good", vocal interest groups ... Keep Reading

If these people want to conserve land, why don't they form a land trust and buy it themselves? ... Keep Reading

Whenever you see a curious environmental regulation plugged randomly into a state budget, you have to ask: who benefits? Consider this latest curiosity ... a special provision of ... Keep Reading

Our reluctant legislature is making overtures about finally protecting us from improper - and unconstitutional - applications of eminent domain. Protecting private property should ... Keep Reading