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Addition Request Leads to Extortion Demands

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As conditions for granting a building permit, the Washington County, Oregon government demanded that Grimm's Fuel Company pay it $1,200 up front, build concrete sidewalks and make various other public works improvements. Addition Request Leads to Extortion Demands Grimm's Fuel ...
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Historic Home — or Run-Down Shack?

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For over two decades, a developer battled Washington, D.C. officials for permission to replace a so-called "historic" run-down shack - which the developer owned - with commercial and residential units for the Capitol Hill neighborhood. Tiny "Historic" Shack Prevents Development ...
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Treehouse Fight Costs Family, Taxpayers $58,000

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photo credit: saveourtreehouse.com The government of Clinton, Mississippi goes after a family's treehouse, after granting a permit to build. Case ends up before the Mississippi Supreme Court. $58,000 Spent Fighting Over a Treehouse Two anonymous complaints about a treehouse have ...
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Separation of Church and State?

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A church in downtown Warrenton, Virginia must use local government-mandated wood instead of fiberglass to fully restore its deteriorating steeple - at a cost of $262,000 more for the church. City Tells Church It Must Spend $262,000 For over 130 ...
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Sheryl Crow’s Toilet Paper “Spoof”

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The Mother Jones blog says actress (or is she a singer?) Sheryl Crow was just doing a "spoof" when, writing on her blog, she suggested limiting toilet paper use. April Rabkin of Mother Jones thinks it is funny that the ...
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RealClimate’s Touchy Censors II

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Seems the environmental movement's RealClimate blog's touchy censors are at it again. A Prometheus commenter says: "It may be real climate, but it sure ain't real science." ...
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Censoring Global Warming Skeptics

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"This isn't about censorship, it's a question of quality control." -Bob Ward, former spokesman for Britain's Royal Society, on a campaign he is organizing to block the DVD release of a British documentary skeptical of the notion that human beings ...
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The Polka Dotted House Gambit

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Local preservation officials in a "planned community" outside Atlanta reject homeowner's renovation plan that would add a front stoop to his house. The Squeaky Wheel, or in this Case, the Polka Dotted House, Gets the Grease Avondale Estates, a suburb ...
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Neighbors’ Views Trump Homeowner’s, When It Comes to Building an Addition

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In the name preserving "open space" and the "historic fabric" of Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, a group of preservationist elitists stop a homeowner - for three years - from adding modest additions to her historic home to meet her family's ...
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That Billion With a ‘B’!

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David Hogberg writes, Think a single-payer health care system will save on costs? Connecticut might make you think twice: In a year when legislators pledged to cure the state's health care ills, the most ambitious plan of all would have ...
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