A new article posted at Civitas discusses a House bill that could lower your local phone bill.A sample: A bill recently introduced in the North Carolina House would help ease the financial strains being felt in households across the state by making more affordable phone service options available. House Bill 1180 would enable local phone [...]
Charlotte Observer’s Water Heads
Here’s the Charlotte Observer on their water woes (since dried up): First things first. It’s encouraging news that drought conditions have improved enough in the Catawba River Valley for an advisory group to OK limited lawn irrigation. Presumably, that decision reflected hard and fast data, not pressure by landscapers or a desire to refill depleted [...]
Getting Government out of Water
Great piece by a former EPA administrator on why the government shouldn’t be in the water business and businesses should.-Max Borders
Climate Change? Ah, Water Markets
Read Jonathan Adler’s paper on water marketing as an adaptive tool for changes in climates like, oh, I don’t know, droughts?-Max Borders
Common Sense Rains on Raleigh
After weathering restrictions, radical conservation proposals and other nonsense, Raleigh adopts a sensible water policy. Not perfect, but it’ll probably work: The Raleigh City Council has now agreed to a tiered-rate water-pricing structure, in which those who used more than the normal amount of water for an individual, family or business would pay more. It’s [...]
