Posts tagged “government bloat”

That Which Is Not Learned

Frédéric Bastiat's most famous essay isn't about schooling at all. A boy breaks a shopkeeper's window, and the crowd that gathers finds a silver lining: the […]

Bill of Separations

America's founding answer to state power was a list of things the state may not do: it may not establish a religion, may not abridge speech, may not […]

Government: Wait... I'm supposed to be doing something about pickleball

Follow one town's actual attention for a season and the allocation stops making sense. A parks department commissions two hazard assessments on a single oak […]

Runaway Process

Why did a healthy oak, older than the town that killed it, actually have to die? Not the proximate answer — a hazard report, a rejected second opinion, a […]

The Report Was Always Going to Win

Five Centuries Under One Crown laid out the mechanism in the abstract: once a municipality commissions a hazard report on a tree, the report itself becomes the […]

Five Centuries Under One Crown

Somewhere in the American South, or on a chaparral hillside in California, there is very likely a live oak — one of a handful of evergreen *Quercus* species that share the name for their wide, low, spreading crowns — that […]