Wildlands Network
The Real Price of Wilderness Designation
By Chris Horgan, 10/13/2004 – Designated Wilderness is land where no mechanized use is allowed. It is severely restrictive.
Month: October 2004
Wildlands Network
An Open Letter to the King and His Game Keeper
By Thomas Paine –
Summary:
As land around the country becomes swallowed up by the government and its partners through "habitat protection plans" the silence behind the science is deafening. The red-legged frog is another species used on the central coast in steal land and limit human action.
Illegitimate Government
The California Performance Review: Devolving Constitutional Government in the Golden State
Susanna Lynton Jennings, 10/13/2004 –
"My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it… People need somebody to watch over them… Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave."
– Arnold Schwarzenegger, U.S. News & World Report, November 26, 1990
Smart Growth - Planning
Community Plans Aim to Change Values
By Susanna L. Jennings, 10/13/2004 –
Community plans are specifically designed to reflect aesthetically the collective values they seek to impose — at the expense of individual expression and privacy.
Private Property
Seeds of Change: Landowner Talks on Abundance Ecology
By Nancy Redwine –
Summary:
"Liberty Garden proves that if people are free to create voluntary
associations, the laws of economics and the consequence of stewardship
will cause the earth to improve."
Michael Shaw, Abundance Ecologist
Smart Growth - Planning
Community Planning – Case Study: Corralitos, California
By Susanna L. Jennings, 10/12/2004 –
In the name of "protecting" and "enhancing" our neighborhoods, community planners and local busybodies are fanning out all over the country to change our towns and neighborhoods. They call it "visioning".
Santa Cruz County
A Citizen’s Analysis of Measure J
By Michael Shaw, 10/12/2004 –
It is ironic that "progressive" Santa Cruz politicians are neck deep in a right wing government/private partnership scam that destroys neighborhoods at taxpayer expense. A friend was right when he said it is like Russia — except that Lenin and Stalin were not this sophisticated.
Articles
Measure J Marries Transportation and Housing in Santa Cruz County
By Michael Park, 10/12/2004 –
Measure J proponents argue that Measure J will fund Highway 1 widening and alternative means of transportation projects. Opponents see the measure as an ineffective crutch to support an allegedly unsustainable car culture. Both sides fail to explain what this bond will truly accomplish.
Articles
Traffic Calming: A Nightmare for Americans
By Susanna L. Jennings, 10/4/2004 –
“Traffic calming devices” include lane reductions, planted median strips, corner bump-outs, cement roundabouts, speed bumps and chicanes occupying former parking spaces. They are all different types of hazardous obstacles — whose purpose is to delay you or discourage you from using your automobile. Traffic calming is not just physically hazardous. It harms our way of life as well.