Nimbyism

Bait-Switch-Fix: The Westside Subway's Three Act Play

John Mirisch | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Westwood, Ucla, Metro, Developers, Beverly Hills, Nimbyism, Westside Subway, Century City, Mass Transit, Los Angeles Mass Transit, Constellation, La Metro, La Transit, Nimby, Los Angeles News
John Mirisch

The message of the press conference participants was clear: we want the Century City station on Constellation and we don't care if you have to tunnel under Beverly Hills High School to get there.

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Ramirez Canyon Blues: Yet Another Fight to Preserve Public Access in Malibu

John Mirisch | Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Preservationism, Lobbying, Malibu, Public Access, Ramirez Canyon, Environmentalism, State Parks, Nimbyism, Conservatonism, Los Angeles News
John Mirisch

While Gov. Brown rightly recognized the long-term negative impacts of Schwarzenegger's proposed selling off of state assets, his most recent budget proposal proposes to sell off state-owned parkland.

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Polls: Anti-Wind NIMBYs Are Small Minority

Brian Keane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wind Power, Clean Energy, Nimby, Sustainable Energy, Nimbyism, Wind Turbines, Green News
Brian Keane

The media frenzy over unhappy wind-turbine neighbors is downright irresponsible -- mainly because multiple studies show that wind turbine critics fall squarely in the minority.

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Anti-Military Militancy Has Gotten Out of Hand

Sean Paige | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Not One More Acre, Fort Carson, Pinon Canyon Army Expansion, US Military Readiness, Base Closures, Nimbyism, Nimby, Pinon Canyon, Denver News
Sean Paige

Rampant NIMBYism is reaching new heights, literally, as residents of rural Colorado rise up in opposition to a proposed modest increase in the number of low-level military training flights.

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Free The Guantanamo Uighurs!

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, US Constitution, Judge Judith Rogers, War on Terror, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Supreme Court Guantanamo Detainees, Nimbyism, Justice Department, US District Court, Boumediene v. Bush, Eric Holder, Barack Obama, Uighurs, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Politics, Guantanamo Uighurs, Judge A. Raymond Randolph, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson, China, Elena Kagan, Advocacy, Closing Guantanamo, World News
Andy Worthington

Obama needs to find the courage to resist the shrill opportunism of some of his least principled colleagues, and to order the Uighurs' release into the United States.

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

Warren Holstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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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The Coming Hyde Park Bar Mitzvah Ban

David Hoyt | Posted 05.25.2011

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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