In the wake of the post-2008 housing bust, suburbia has become associated with many of the same ills long associated with cities, as our urban-based press corps and cultural elite cheerfully sneer at each new sign of decline, most recently a study released Monday by the Brookings Institution—which has become something of a Vatican for anti-suburban theology—trumpeting the news that there are now 1 million more poor people in America’s suburbs than in its cities.
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In explanation of my title, I fear I’ll have to go on a bit of a digression. Let me tell three stories, about people in three different parts of our amazing planet.
After Sandy, No One Lined Up for Wind Turbines: The greens want to go ‘beyond oil,’ but without it we’d freeze in the dark.
Last year, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg pledged $50 million to the Sierra Club for its “beyond coal” campaign. But the mayor hasn’t—and won’t—be directing any cash to the club’s parallel “beyond oil” campaign.
Oil Sands Environmental Realities and the Nature of Things: Researchers enhance natural growth with successful agricultural soil methods, wetlands restoration with beavers, avian protection with hi-tech marine radar and light spectrum research
Three University of Alberta professors demonstrate successful oil sands environmental management and restoration methods to an impatient and sceptical public who do not appreciate that nature works in decades, not years, and will successfully reclaim itself to a large extent. They show how humans are enhancing and speeding up the process, and applying hi-tech innovations to avian monitoring and protection.
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Michael Ignatieff’s 2011 election Red Book promise to create a cap-and-trade market in carbon dioxide emissions, completes a triple play of stupidity on energy and environmental policy by the Liberals going back almost 20 years.
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Frontier’s video on oil sands, wind turbines, and bird deaths reaches 10,000 views.
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Why free public wireless Internet is the silliest policy we have.
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Booze Prohibition — 80 Years On
Contrary to myth about Saskatchewan’s approach to alcohol sales at the retail and wholesale level, a new Frontier study finds that alcohol sold at private outlets is not more expensive, doesn’t result in higher consumption and that public monopolies do not prevent alcohol-related crime or social harm.
Report, then Reform Reserves
“We have long been advocates of more independence and responsibility for First Nations governments; not just more money and power — the typical demands of national Aboriginal politicians — but more transparency and accountability to those governed by band councils, too.”