PolicyGuy

Tuesday, April 27, 2004


This Time, It's Personal
The new buildings commissioner in Chicago is accused of delaying an already-in-process building project because his wife didn't like how it looked.

Accusations abound on many sides, and I have no idea who is telling the truth. Regardless, it does illustrate the potential for abuse that is doubtless exploited from time to time.

It's simple; the more often that official approval is required for this, that, or the other, the more likely that something like what is alleged here really will happen.

"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'?s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

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