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Delhi Fly and Property Rights Can Coexist
Environment Op-Ed
By: Erin Schiller
6.19.1998
The Supreme Court may soon bring the Endangered Species Act of 1973 back into the legal limelight. A coalition of property rights activists, developers and farmers has asked the court to consider a San Bernardino case over the Delhi Sands Flower-Loving Fly that would restrict the scope of the controversial Act. The challenge emphasizes that by excluding property rights, the Endangered Species Act fails to save endangered species.
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Kyoto Agreement To Impose Enormous Costs
Press Release
6.15.1998
Sacramento – A new study shows that the costs of the Kyoto Protocol agreed to by the Clinton Administration last December in Japan would be enormous and felt by every individual, family, organization, and community in California. If approved and implemented, the impact would be particularly severe in states like California with a heavy dependence on fossil fuels, the treaty’s key target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Class Size Reduction
KQED Commentary
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
6.2.1998
Before California voters can even recover from the June primary election, state officials are already crafting propositions for the November general election ballot. The most ambitious such initiative would permanently reduce class size in grades K through 3.
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Understanding America's Luddites
Business and Economics Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
6.1.1998
In 1995, shortly after the Washington Post published the Unabomber's manifesto, a "guess who" game became popular on talk radio. Prompted by an article written by Tony Snow, then of the Detroit News, the object was to correctly guess who wrote a particular anti-technology passage--Vice President Al Gore in his best-selling Earth in the Balance or the Unabomber in his manifesto.
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