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Article filed under The Public Good | Written by David Morris | No Comments | Updated on Sep 15, 1998

Rooting the Home Team: Why the Packers Won’t Leave — and Why the Browns Did

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This article by David Morris and Daniel Kraker first appeared in The American Prospect magazine, September-October 1998

Onthe last Sunday in January, an elated John Elway stood on the gridiron where his Denver Broncos had just beaten the Green Bay Packers 31-24, and announced to millions of worldwide television viewers that the best part about finally winning the Super Bowl was how much it meant to his longtime fans, the people of Denver.

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Article filed under The Public Good | Written by David Morris | No Comments | Updated on Aug 11, 1998

Will Free Software Be the Foundation of the Information Economy?

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Will Free Software Be the Foundation of the Information Economy? by David Morris Institute for Local Self-Reliance August 11, 1998 – published in St. Paul Pioneer Press The vast majority of the 46 million households with computers depend on an operating system–Windows–that is owned by Microsoft. No one is allowed to alter that system, which… Continue reading

Article filed under The Public Good | Written by David Morris | No Comments | Updated on Jun 30, 1998

Private Entrepreneurship for the Public Good

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Private Entrepreneurship for the Public Good by David Morris Institute for Local Self-Reliance June 30, 1998 – published in St. Paul Pioneer Press “He is no different from (CBS founder) Bill Paley or Edward R. Murrow in creating the new cyberspace model,” said Eric Schmidt, chief technology officer at Sun Microsystems Inc. “He sees himself… Continue reading

Article filed under The Public Good | Written by David Morris | No Comments | Updated on Jun 16, 1998

Canada and the U.S.: A World Apart on Hemp

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Canada and the U.S.: A World Apart on Hemp by David Morris Institute for Local Self-Reliance June 16, 1998 – published in St. Paul Pioneer Press In May, a few miles across the border from Buffalo, 50 Canadian farmers began planting 2,000 acres of industrial hemp, the first commercial hemp crop in that country in… Continue reading

Article filed under The Public Good | Written by David Morris | No Comments | Updated on Jun 2, 1998

The Marketplace Wins: Choice Loses

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The Marketplace Wins: Choice Loses by David Morris Institute for Local Self-Reliance June 2, 1998 – published in St. Paul Pioneer Press It wasn’t supposed to end up like this. The free market system promised to bring us more choice, not less. Indeed, to most free enterprise advocates, choice is the most important feature of… Continue reading

Article filed under The Public Good | Written by David Morris | No Comments | Updated on May 21, 1998

Stifling the Rights of Communities

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Stifling the Rights of Communities by David Morris Institute for Local Self-Reliance May 21, 1998 – published in St. Paul Pioneer Press Twenty years ago, appalled by the brutality of the apartheid system in South Africa, citizens around the country successfully convinced their local governments to put their tax money where their values were. Half… Continue reading

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Article, Resource, Rule filed under Energy, The Public Good | Written by David Morris | No Comments | Updated on May 12, 1998

Tax Polluters, Not Families and Businesses

The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/post-2772/

TheEconomic Efficiency and Pollution Reduction Act of 1998 completely eliminates school district’s general education property tax levy and finances it at the state level through a tax on pollution. Continue reading

Article filed under The Public Good | Written by David Morris | No Comments | Updated on May 7, 1998

A Single European Currency: High Risk, Low Returns

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A Single European Currency: High Risk, Low Returns by David Morris Institute for Local Self-Reliance May 7, 1998 – published in St. Paul Pioneer Press “A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only and ignorant with its ignorance”, Henry David Thoreau wrote. “Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to… Continue reading

Article filed under The Public Good | Written by David Morris | No Comments | Updated on Apr 24, 1998

Don’t Let the IMF Reload

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Don’t Let the IMF Reload by David Morris Institute for Local Self-Reliance February 24, 1998 – published in St. Paul Pioneer Press Fifty years ago the International Monetary Fund(IMF) was created to help countries overcome short term liquidity crises. Today it is literally dictating the economic and political future of almost a billion people on… Continue reading

Article filed under The Public Good | Written by David Morris | No Comments | Updated on Apr 21, 1998

Size Matters

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Size Matters by David Morris Institute for Local Self-Reliance April 21, 1998 – published in St. Paul Pioneer Press The announced marriage of Travelers Group and Citicorp, and the wave of megamergers it inspired, once again puts size into the policy spotlight. Size matters. But contrary to what the bolsters of bigness promise, when it… Continue reading