This week a federal appeals court upheld a preliminary injunction preventing a Pennsylvania prosecutor from forcing girls into “education and counseling” by threatening to prosecute them on child pornography charges for appearing in “sexting” photos. The case began in October 2008, when school officials in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, found nude and semi-nude pictures of teenaged girls on several students’ cell phones. The matter was referred to Wyoming County District Attorney George Skumanick Jr., who sent letters to the parents of about 20 students who either had appeared in the photos or had them on their phones, inviting them to participate in “a six to nine month program which focuses on education and counseling.” Among other things, the program involved writing essays of self-criticism “explaining why you are here,” “what you did,” “why it was wrong,” who was victimized by it, and how it “affect[ed] the victim, the school, [and] the community.” Skumanick told the parents that “participation in the program is voluntary”—except that students who did not get with the program would face felony charges of possessing or distributing child pornography
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George Skumanick’s Provocative Pose
Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey is an original Reason.tv documentary series that aired the week of March 15-19, 2010. Featuring sitcom legend, Price Is Right host, and proud Clevelander Drew Carey, each roughly 10-minute episode investigates and analyzes the problems that turned Cleveland from the nation’s sixth-largest city in 1950 into today’s “Mistake By The Lake.” Like all too many American cities, Cleveland seems locked into a death spiral, shedding people, jobs, and dreams like nobody’s business
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Watch “Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey: How to Fix The Mistake on The Lake And Other Once-Great American Cities” as a single video
“No city can exist without people,” writes Reason Foundation’s Anthony Randazzo in a companion piece to the sixth and final episode of the documentary series Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey. Yet Cleveland’s population has declined from nearly 1 million in the 1950s to about 430,000. Many of these people have moved to nearby suburbs, causing city population density to decline from 11,400 people per square mile in 1960 to 6,200 ppsm in 2008.
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New at Reason: How to Repopulate Cleveland And Other Once-Great American Cities
Outrage o’ the day , care of The New York Post : A computer database glitch has sent police to the home of an elderly Brooklyn couple more than 50 times since 2002, sheepish cops admitted today. Walter and Rose Martin endured the most recent raid on Tuesday, when four cops showed up looking for a suspect. Two officers broke a window in the back of their Marine Park home.
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Nothing Worse Than Having Your Name on an “Invade My House Constantly” List
No city can exist without people and Cleveland has lost more than half its population since the 1950s.
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Bring The People Back: Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey, Ep. 6
The latest—though likely not the last— Congressional Budget Office score for the Democrats health care overhaul is in, and after a harried week, it’s making Rep. James Clyburn, the House Democrats’ whip, “giddy.” What’s worth squealing about
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Gimme Gimmicks: Getting Giddy Over the CBO’s Latest Health Care Score
Why spend your time in boring city council meetings just because you were elected to the city council?
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But Can They Vote ‘Present’?
The one-two combination of Justice John Paul Stevens’ impending retirement and his recent angry dissent in the much-ballyhooed free speech case Citizens United v.
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The Pro-Corporate Legacy of Justice John Paul Stevens
Over at Big Goverment, Reason columnist and Mercatus Center economist Veronique de Rugy suggests the government host a garage sale to pay down its debt: Here is an idea: Greece is getting ready to sell some of its assets to pay for its gigantic debt ( Corfu and the Parthenon are not on the auction block yet), and the US should do the same. According to the Financial Statement of the United States , there is about $2.6 trillion of stuff we could sell (See Page 49 of the report, it’s page 69 of the whole document). A few items on my list: Loans receivable and mortgage backed securities: $540 billion TARP direct loans and equity investments: $240 billion Property, plant, and equipment: $784 billion Freddie and Fannie preferred stocks: $65 billion Whole thing here
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What If The Government Gave an Estate Sale?
Who said this in praise of Walmart’s in-house check-cashing operations? If you’re cashing, for example, a $1,000 biweekly paycheck then $6 is almost one third the price MoneyGram is asking. Nothing too earth-shattering about this, but it underscores the point that a lot of the time the best solution to abusive business practices is to find ways to get competing firms into the business
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Feel The Liberal Love For…Walmart?
