Posted in Sweet on Mar 25th, 2008 No Comments »
Homer Tourkakis — the dentist who lost an eminent domain case before the Missouri Supreme Court last week — has a wonderful op-ed in today’s St. Louis Post Dispatch. Here’s a clip:
When I started my dental practice in the the city of Arnold more than two decades ago, I never dreamed that years of [...]
Posted in This is bullshit! on Mar 18th, 2008 No Comments »
The Missouri Supreme Court has just issued a terrible ruling. According to the Institute for Justice press release:
Today, the Supreme Court of Missouri held, 6-1, that both large (“chartered”) and small (“non-chartered”) cities have the power to use eminent domain under the state’s redevelopment or “TIF” laws to take land from private owners to hand [...]
Posted in Shut the eff up, This is bullshit! on Mar 4th, 2008 2 Comments »
Missouri bureaucrats are against a tax-credit program that would give special needs students scholarships to attend better schools.
Here is their reasoning:
It would use public dollars for private purposes. - Independence Superintendent Jim Hinson
Using tax credits in this manner is not the right way to use public dollars. It concerns me that if this was approved, [...]
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