Picks: States vs. Hospital Monopolies, Cities vs. Bitcoin Miners, Here Comes Free Transit, and more (6th Edition)

Date: 13 Jun 2018 | posted in: From the Desk of David Morris | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

This week’s Weekly Picks details the myriad fights between cities and distant, consolidated industries such as investor-owned electric utilities, immigration and customs enforcement (ICE), and cryptocurrency miners. Other stories detail what localities can do in response to China’s ban on U.S. recycling scrap as well as how to build a smart city.… Read More

Medical Marijuana: 40 Years of Sanity from the Bottom and Insanity from the Top

Date: 13 Aug 2013 | posted in: From the Desk of David Morris, The Public Good | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Our attitude toward medical marijuana has unfolded like a sisyphean tragedy in three acts. Act I:  The People Press Their Case, Again and Again In 1937 Congress passed the Marihuana Tax Act, which made the recreational use of marijuana illegal.  But it affirmed the right of physicians and pharmacists to prescribe and dispense it. The American … Read More

States Rights vs. Federal Tyranny

Date: 25 Jan 2004 | posted in: From the Desk of David Morris, The Public Good | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

States Rights vs. Federal Tyranny by David Morris Originally published in AlterNet, January 25, 2004 For many of us, the phrase “states’ rights” has been viewed as code for the right of a state’s majority to tyrannize its minorities. That view may have to change. For in December a federal court embraced the concept of states’ … Read More

State of Union Address that Could’ve Been

Date: 26 Jan 1999 | posted in: From the Desk of David Morris, The Public Good | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

State of Union Address that Could’ve Been by David Morris Institute for Local Self-Reliance January 26, 1999 – published in St. Paul Pioneer Press Something I’d liked to have heard in President Clinton’s State of the Union Address Distinguished Members of Congress, Three years ago I stood in this spot and declared “the era of big … Read More