Private Entrepreneurship for the Public Good by David Morris Institute for Local Self-Reliance June 30, 1998 – published in St. Paul Pioneer Press “He is no different from (CBS founder) Bill Paley or Edward R. Murrow in creating the new cyberspace model,” said Eric Schmidt, chief technology officer at Sun Microsystems Inc. “He sees himself as … Read More
Canada and the U.S.: A World Apart on Hemp by David Morris Institute for Local Self-Reliance June 16, 1998 – published in St. Paul Pioneer Press In May, a few miles across the border from Buffalo, 50 Canadian farmers began planting 2,000 acres of industrial hemp, the first commercial hemp crop in that country in 60 … Read More
The Marketplace Wins: Choice Loses by David Morris Institute for Local Self-Reliance June 2, 1998 – published in St. Paul Pioneer Press It wasn’t supposed to end up like this. The free market system promised to bring us more choice, not less. Indeed, to most free enterprise advocates, choice is the most important feature of the … Read More
Stifling the Rights of Communities by David Morris Institute for Local Self-Reliance May 21, 1998 – published in St. Paul Pioneer Press Twenty years ago, appalled by the brutality of the apartheid system in South Africa, citizens around the country successfully convinced their local governments to put their tax money where their values were. Half a … Read More
TheEconomic Efficiency and Pollution Reduction Act of 1998 completely eliminates school district’s general education property tax levy and finances it at the state level through a tax on pollution.… Read More
A Single European Currency: High Risk, Low Returns by David Morris Institute for Local Self-Reliance May 7, 1998 – published in St. Paul Pioneer Press “A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only and ignorant with its ignorance”, Henry David Thoreau wrote. “Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the … Read More
Don’t Let the IMF Reload by David Morris Institute for Local Self-Reliance February 24, 1998 – published in St. Paul Pioneer Press Fifty years ago the International Monetary Fund(IMF) was created to help countries overcome short term liquidity crises. Today it is literally dictating the economic and political future of almost a billion people on four … Read More
Size Matters by David Morris Institute for Local Self-Reliance April 21, 1998 – published in St. Paul Pioneer Press The announced marriage of Travelers Group and Citicorp, and the wave of megamergers it inspired, once again puts size into the policy spotlight. Size matters. But contrary to what the bolsters of bigness promise, when it comes … Read More
Does Community Matter? by David Morris Institute for Local Self-Reliance July 16, 1998 – published in St. Paul Pioneer Press In the larger scheme of things, the news item the other day seemed a small story. A committee of the Metropolitan Airports Commission(MAC), which runs the Minneapolis-St. Paul International airport, recommended that the airport not renew … Read More
