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Tonight on John Stossel’s eponymous Fox Business show , which airs at 8PM ET (check your local listings), Drew Carey, Nick Gillespie, former Mayor Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) and others talk about Reason.tv’s Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey, urban decline, and urban renewal. Here’s Stossel previewing the show:

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Set Tivos to Stun: Drew Carey, Nick Gillespie, Dennis Kucinich, Reason Saves Cleveland on Stossel Tonight, 8PM

Why do some cities thrive while others decay?

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New at Reason: John Stossel on How Politicians Ruin Cities

Over at PJTV, Glenn Instapundit Reynolds has posted the second half of an excellent interview with pollster Scott Rasmussen, author of the new book In Search of Self-Governance. It’s well worth watching, especially for the moment when Luke Skywalker gets invoked (not half as geeky as it sounds).

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Why Can’t Politicians be More Like Luke Skywalker?

Our modern bills and coins show about as much variety and imagination as a Bulgarian housing project. The figures adorning our currency have a claim to be remembered

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New at Reason: Steve Chapman on Giving the $50 Bill A Facelift

From our April issue, Veronique de Rugy notes that it’s been a long time since economic policy was forged in the states.

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New at Reason: Veronique de Rugy on the Death of Fiscal Federalism

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

Of the awe-filled profiling of our treasury secretary there is no end , and the Atlantic has one this month that is so stagging in its scope, so wide in its perspicacity, that one thing is for sure: you’ll never get through the goddamn thing. (Full disclosure: I haven’t yet either!) So while I may have more to say later, I do have to point out my favorite part so far (after how it stresses a bit better than other Geithner profiles I recall how indebted his career is to having been anointed by Kissinger, for those who like to think about permanent entrenched elites): In the course of many interviews about Geithner, two qualities came up again and again

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Timothy Geithner: He’s Way Smarter Than You, and He Could Kick Your Ass