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...nine current members of the Cambridge City Council—plus an assortment of nine Democratic, Libertarian, and even Republican challengers—declared their candidacy last Friday in the first hurdle leading up to the November citywide elections...
Rounding out the slate of challengers is James Condit, a Libertarian; Andre Green, a 24-year-old Republican; Robert Hall, Sr.; Bill Hees, a second Libertarian; Robert La Trémouille, a longtime Cantabrigian who frequently denounces environmental destruction in the city; and Sam Siedel, an urban planner and 2001 graduate of the Design School...
...Substance Abuse are "not a reliable estimate." The survey describes a near doubling of prescription-drug abuse from 1992 to 2003, but because of changes in the way federal statistics were gathered in the past decade, no such claim can be made, the spokesman said. Last month the libertarian Cato Institute issued a report, Treating Doctors as Drug Dealers: The DEA's War on Prescription Painkillers, charging that the agency exaggerated reports of OxyContin deaths and overdoses. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like aspirin and ibuprofen, which can lead to intestinal bleeding, cause 35 times more deaths a year than...
Other critics, including civil libertarian Alan Dershowitz, came around to driver's-license reforms after 9/11. Most of the hijackers had driver's licenses or state IDs, leading the 9/11 commission to recommend changes like the ones proposed. Had this bill been enacted by 2001, some of the terrorists would probably have had invalid licenses because their visas had expired...
...doubt about it, David Threshie once deserved your pity. When Threshie became publisher of the Orange County Register in 1979, he inherited a crotchety, shabbily written newspaper content to doze in the shadow of its bigcity neighbor, the Los Angeles Times. Its news columns were infected with the libertarian philosophy of its editorials (public schools were called "tax-supported schools"), and the biggest headlines were saved for crime and sex stories. A sympathetic nod should also have gone to Chris Anderson, whom Threshie picked as the paper's editor in 1980. A onetime disk jockey and former associate managing editor...