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NIMBY Comes to China Revisited

Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 09.27.2009 | World

Read More: Xiamen, Prc, Democracy, Chengdu, Nimby, China, World News
Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Happenings in the PRC this year echo phenomena seen in 2008.

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Not in My Backyard: Fear of the Guantánamo Legion of Doom

Warren Holstein | Posted 06.26.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Yucca Mountain, John McCain, Ramsi Yousef, George W. Bush, Guantanamo Detainees, 9/11, Guantanamo, Nevada, Nimbyism, Richard Reid, Nimby, Gitmo, Al Qaeda, Dick Cheney, Shoe Bomber, Zacharias Moussaoui, Prison, Guantanamo Bay, Gop, Enhanced Interrogations, Prisons, 20/20, World Trade Center, Waterboarding, Afghanistan, Gitmo Detainees, Republican Party, Republicans, Torture, George Bush, Comedy News
Warren Holstein

Yup, that's right, the self-same prison system that has held Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer and the Son of Sam is apparently no match for a bunch of unarmed, sensory-deprived foreigners.

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Many Renewable Projects Meet Local Opposition

wsj.com | Posted 04.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Nimby, Green Stimulus, Green Politics, Green News

Even though Obama has approved tens of billions of dollars in direct grants, loans and loan guarantees for the renewable and transmission industries, ...

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The Coming Hyde Park Bar Mitzvah Ban

David Hoyt | Posted 10.09.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Hyde Park Progress, Doctors Hospital, Hyde Park, Prohibition, Nimbyism, Hyde Park Referenda, Chicago Liquor Laws, Leslie Hairston, Local Option Chicago, Chicago Drinking Laws, Stony Island Mariott, Stony Island, Nimby, Hyde Park Development, Chicago News
David Hoyt

If voters of the 39th Precinct of Hyde Park's 5th Ward decide to exercise their "local option" to ban the sale of alcohol on November 4, they will effectively be banning the celebration of bar mitzvahs in their corner of the neighborhood.

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Radioactive Pigs

Carl Pope | Posted 07.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Nuclear Energy, Yucca Mountain, Mccain, Nuclear Power, Mccain Yucca Mountain, Mccain Nuclear Power, Nimby, Green News
Carl Pope

More evidence of the hard-wired sloppiness that has plagued Yucca from the start popped up a week after DOE filed for its NRC permit. So how does this play out politically?

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