Articles from February 2009

An opportunity to be heard … 23 Feb 2009

From the Northfield News website we see an upcoming political event: [23 Feb 2009] 06:00 PMTown Hall Meeting State Rep. David Bly and State Sen. Kevin Dahle host a Town Hall meeting to discuss how the economic recession has affected them and to gather input on how best to balance the state budget, from 6 [...]

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1,2,4,5 … 10 … The Bill of Rights remembered

The first ten amendments to the Constitution are sometimes refered to as the Bill of Rights. Of these, the one we overlook routinely and to our great loss, is the Tenth … The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states [...]

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Well, let the experiment begin … [Opinion]

Today we began a trillion-dollar experiment. We don’t know the real cost, but we suspect the authors of the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act” are more about wishing and hoping than they are about doing the right thing. The Keynesian model says that in times of recession, the government is justified in running deficits to [...]

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