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Floyd's Fork Property Owners Win Reprieve     by Theresa Fritz Camoriano     Louisville, KY.  About 200 people attended a meeting of the Jefferson County Planning and Zoning Commission on May 30, 2002 concerning the Floyd's Fork Overlay District, with the majority of property owners voicing strong opposition to the proposed restrictions on their property rights in the form of mandatory setbacks, required preservation of 30% of their property as "open space", and other restrictions.

Air Pollution Control Board of Jefferson County Recommends that VET Testing Not Be Ended

The Real Lincoln by Thomas J. DiLorenzo     Reviewed by Theresa Fritz Camoriano     Thomas DiLorenzo is a professor of economics at Loyola College in Maryland, specializing in economic history and political economy.  This book provides a view of Abraham Lincoln as a tyrant, who jailed people who disagreed with him, including 13,000 Northerners, and who closed down many dissenting Northern newspapers.  Lincoln was willing to kill over 600,000 Americans and ignore the civil rights guaranteed by the Constitution, in order to subjugate the states to the power of the federal government, which he believed was necessary for the success of his "American Plan" of high import duties and corporate welfare.

How Tyranny Came To America by Joseph Sobran

Policymakers Should Learn Homeschooling Lessons     Harrisburg, PA-Today, The Commonwealth Foundation released a policy brief on "homeschooling" and what it can teach us about improving public education in Pennsylvania.  The brief suggests that significant improvements in public education will be made and sustained by empowering parents, not by spending more scarce tax dollars.

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