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The Fairmont City Council tabled another project at its meeting this week. This one is for new pickleball courts which may or may not come to fruition. For some background, a few months ago the council approved a capital improvement project to move the courts from their current location at Veterans Park to the Winnebago Avenue Sports Complex. However, input was received, suggesting that they go elsewhere. Two of the locations included different sides of the soccer complex and the other location was where the skate park currently is. The Fairmont Park Board suggested they go at the ...

War and constitutional indifference

Columns

Since its inception, the government of the United States has inexorably exceeded its powers under the Constitution. All three branches have been complicit in a consistent pattern of constitutional indifference. Congress has regulated in areas of governance nowhere articulated in the ...

Minimum wage fail

Columns

Not long ago, new kinds of jobs appeared: app-based gig work. They include jobs like dog walking on Rover, Taskrabbit work, DoorDash food delivery, Uber and Lyft driving ... Lots of people like gig work. It's flexible. You work when you want to work. But "workers' rights" activists and ...

Trump’s three retreats

Columns

President Trump has been musing about whether he's the most powerful man in world history, and judging by the results lately, the answer is definitely "no." It's certainly true that Trump has technical tools at his disposal that would have astounded famous pre-20th century contenders for the ...

Can anyone govern Britain — or America?

Columns

As Britain gets ready for its seventh prime minister in just 10 years, it's time to ask whether the parliamentary system itself is broken. That might explain not only why landslide election victories don't translate into stable leadership in Britain but also why America's Congress is so ...

Democrats declare war on school choice

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Why are Democrats and their teachers union masters trying to shoot down parental choice in education even when we now have so many examples of these programs working? Choice and competition are two of the hallmarks of the American economy. When stores compete, customers win. Turns out this ...