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Today’s episode of Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey is titled ” Taking Care of Business ” and details the various ways in which The Mistake on The Lake makes it tougher than tough to start and operate businesses within the city’s limits. Well, what about the dump you call home?

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Open Thread: Is Your Town Pro-Business? Anti-Business? Let Us Count The Ways

Even the federal government can only spend so much on a project that’s never worked. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that after three and a half years and $1.4 billion, she is freezing funding for the virtual border fence in Arizona

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Virtual Fence Virtually Dead

MSNBC’s David Shuster takes time off from hectoring guests to ask Tracy Quan (pro) and Janice Crouse (con) whether the United States is ready for legalized prostitution:

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Is America Ready for Legalized Prostitution?

Episode 1, The Decline of a Once-Great City Sixty years ago, Cleveland was a booming city full of promise, opportunity, and people.

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Recently at Reason.tv: Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey Episodes 1, 2 & 3!

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) tried to sneak an amendment to revive D.C.’s voucher program into the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization yesterday

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Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Fails to Save D.C. Schoolkids from D.C. Schools

Speaking of journalism awards , Conor Friedersdorf’s recent list of 2009’s best journalism (which included a Reason piece ) has inspired resident OC Weekly Mexican and faith-challenged Angels fan Gustavo Arellano to compile his ” 10 Greatest Journalism Stories EVER ,” in which we see some more props for Radley Balko: * ” The Top 10 Most Absurd Time Covers of The Past 40 Years .” Radley Balko and Jeff Winkler, Reason.com, 2009: Genius use of new media to eviscerate old media and make clear something most people probably didn’t realize but, once shown, agreed with wholeheartedly.  Alas, there was no such love for nous in this New York University list of the best journalisms of the recently departed decade, though it’s hard to compete against the likes of Thomas L. Friedman , Ezra Klein, and Katie Couric. Read Contributing Editor Greg Beato ’s classic 1999 Suck.com piece about NYU’s top-100 20th century list here , then see Reason ’s more recent mini-interview with Arellano here .

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Reason Praised, Ignored, by List-Makers!

In a companion piece to Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey, Anthony Randazzo of Reason Foundation writes, The Internet and globalization have both made it possible to operate a business from virtually anywhere and still serve a wide range of customers.

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New at Reason: How Cities Can Take of Businesses

  After World War II, Cleveland was booming, thanks to its leadership role in heavy industry and a business-friendly climate. Today, the city’s high taxes and onerous regulatory demands make it nearly impossible for new businesses to set up shop while choking the life out of existing companies.

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Take Care of Business: Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey, Ep. 4

Last weekend’s murders of three people tied to the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez grabbed headlines in the United States and provoked outrage from the Obama administration. But as Senior Editor Jacob Sullum notes, those attacks were just a small part of the bloody ordeal that our government is inflicting on Mexico by insisting that it stop drugs destined for American lungs, noses, and veins.

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New at Reason: Jacob Sullum on Mexico’s Drug War Violence