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Corporate State and the Olympics | Coyote Blog
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Dispatches from District 48. Laquo; Enshrining Peer Review as Part of the Scientific Method. Department of Circular Definitions. Corporate State and the Olympics. May 29, 2012, 12:04 pm. The most carefully policed Brand Exclusion Zone will be around the Olympic Park, and extend up to 1km beyond its perimeter, for up to 35 days. Within this area, officially called an Advertising and Street Trade Restrictions venue restriction zone. This brand apartheid is designed to prevent "ambush marketing", the gainin...
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The Saudis Tried to Kill The Shale Oil Business. It May Turn Out The Other Way Around | Coyote Blog
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Dispatches from District 48. Laquo; Just the Moon Orbiting the Earth. The Uphill Battle to Reduce the Size of Government. The Saudis Tried to Kill The Shale Oil Business. It May Turn Out The Other Way Around. August 6, 2015, 11:17 am. This article on Saudi Arabia, shale oil, and oil prices was interesting throughout. Saudi Arabia is effectively beached. It relies on oil for 90pc of its budget revenues. There is no other industry to speak of, a full fifty years after the oil bonanza began. Money began to ...
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The Uphill Battle to Reduce the Size of Government | Coyote Blog
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Dispatches from District 48. Laquo; The Saudis Tried to Kill The Shale Oil Business. It May Turn Out The Other Way Around. The Worst New Idea of the 20th Century. The Uphill Battle to Reduce the Size of Government. August 6, 2015, 11:26 am. This week in an article at PERC. I tell one such story in depth. Here is an excerpt:. Did the Forest Service do it to save money? Did they do it to improve service? Did they do it to address some egregious for-profit abuse? The agency is actually planning to replace d...
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Correction: The actual Arizona immigration bill « Hot Air
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Correction: The actual Arizona immigration bill. Posted at 6:01 pm on April 24, 2010 by Allahpundit. Onclick="javascript: window.open(this.href,' , 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600'); return false;". No wonder I couldn’t find the provision in the bill ordering citizens to carry their papers at all times: Turns out I was reading the wrong version. The one I linked yesterday. Apologies for the error. 1 A VALID ARIZONA DRIVER LICENSE. 4 IF THE ENTITY REQUIRES PROOF OF...
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A Proposal to Keep Arizona State Parks Open | Coyote Blog
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Dispatches from District 48. Laquo; Utterly Without Shame. A Proposal to Keep Arizona State Parks Open. February 4, 2010, 8:09 pm. Due to budget cuts, Arizona State Parks is closing 13 of its 22 state parks. This last week, I have been making the rounds of the state government, from the state legislature to the head of Arizona State Parks, with a proposal to keep the 7 largest of these closed parks open, and pay the state money for the privilege. Without even knowing the details ( my response here. At al...
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PERC | Coyote Blog
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Dispatches from District 48. Posts tagged ‘PERC’. The Uphill Battle to Reduce the Size of Government. August 6, 2015, 11:26 am. This week in an article at PERC. I tell one such story in depth. Here is an excerpt:. Consider one example: The Tahoe National Forest in California recently took the operation of some of their parks out of private hands, ending a nearly 30-year partnership with one of our competitor companies. Did the Forest Service do it to save money? Did they do it to improve service? The age...
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Dispatches from District 48. Posts tagged ‘Forest Service’. Laquo; Previous Entries. A Few Thoughts About the Yosemite Trademark Brouhaha. February 2, 2016, 11:15 am. A lot of folks have been asking for my thoughts on this conflict, where Delaware North. The departing concessionaire at the Yosemite Lodge, is claiming they own trademarks associated with the old, beloved lodges that must be bought out for lots of money, either by the government or the new concessionaire. October 29, 2015, 8:54 am. As you w...
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Dispatches from District 48. Posts tagged ‘USFS’. Example of the Impact of Minimum Wages on Consumer Prices. August 15, 2016, 12:51 pm. I thought folks might be interested in a letter I just wrote to the US Forest Service. I have left some of it out, but these are the guts of it. As many of your know, we manage parks and campgrounds. 2017 Fee Proposal and Impact of California Minimum Wage Increases on Camping Rates. Background on the Minimum Wage Increase. Background on Concessionaire Cost Structures.
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minimum wage | Coyote Blog
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Dispatches from District 48. Posts tagged ‘minimum wage’. Laquo; Previous Entries. China Doesn't Kill American Jobs, Politicians Do. August 15, 2016, 10:16 am. I am simply exhausted with the notion that seems to have taken over both political parties that trade with China is somehow the source of US economic woes. But some of the most prominent include:. Employment regulations, such as chair laws and break laws in California, that make employing people more expensive and risky. Employer liability laws, t...
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio | Coyote Blog
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Dispatches from District 48. Posts tagged ‘Sheriff Joe Arpaio’. Laquo; Previous Entries. Race and Petty Traffic Laws. August 5, 2015, 9:53 am. When you hear that police pulled someone over for the totally BS charge of a "partially obscured license plate with only one light," can't you just assume the driver is probably black or Hispanic? A few years ago I wrote vis a vis our infamous SB1070. I forgot this story from 2008. Which is a great example of what I am talking about here. These are penny-ante offe...