Written by Christian Brichugi, reasonOctober 15, 2024
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In September, the City Council of Kalispell, Montana, took the unusual and perhaps unprecedented step of revoking permits granted to local shelters that had allowed them to provide warm beds to homeless people in rural areas during the winter months. Ta.
City Council members have accused the privately funded Kochi Warming Center of attracting out-of-town homeless people into the community, arguing they are causing an increase in crime and disorder in the surrounding area. .
The Kochi Warming Center maintains that these accusations are baseless and that the permit was revoked through an ad hoc and illegal procedure.
DRH Comment: Without the government, who will take care of not allowing private shelters to exist?
Written by Clark Nelly, Kato at LibertyOctober 15, 2024.
In fact, the American criminal justice system rotten to the core. Contrary to the scenario of level ridgepolice and other system actors don’t have to stare down the barrel of a financial crisis to deploy civil forfeiture in a way that is almost indistinguishable from outright theft. Instead, a combination of perverse incentives, loose proceduresand Almost zero accountability Virtually ensures abuse. Those who oppose the so-calledblue wall of silence” is very realistic and far more effective at protecting perpetrators of serial police misconduct than the hodgepodge plots of rednecks depicted in movies. level ridge.
And in our system, there is no need to sandbag defendants by flatly denying them access to counsel when they can achieve the same functional outcome by persisting. Lack of funds and overwork It has gotten to the point where public defenders are no longer able to provide a truly zealous defense for all or even most of their clients.
Written by Mark Joffe, Kato at LibertyOctober 17, 2024.
Electric car maker Rivian has struggled to make cars and turn a profit, but it has proven adept at securing subsidy and tax credit packages from governments across the country. If the company is unable to reverse its financial fortunes, it could go bankrupt before using up all the incentives offered.
According to Good Jobs First grant trackerSince 2016, Rivian has received incentive packages totaling more than $2.3 billion from four states. company has started The small business received $1.72 million from the Michigan Business Development Program, established a headquarters in Livonia, Michigan, and employs up to 170 people. The company then relocated to nearby Plymouth, Michigan, before moving its headquarters out of state to Irvine, California.
DRH Comment: These two paragraphs and the entire article are interesting in and of themselves. Another interesting thing is that there is actually a “subsidy tracker.” There should be that too.
Written by Rupa Subramanya, free pressOctober 17, 2024.
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Without the ability to process payments, his crowdfunding platform would be unable to operate. So Mr. Blauvelt, now 40, left a family vacation in Florida and flew to Stripe’s San Francisco headquarters to try to resolve the situation.
About a dozen people, mainly from Stripe’s compliance department, were waiting in the conference room. Blauvelt explained that LaunchGood, which crowdsources donations to Muslim charities around the world, aims to: food aid to syria, clean drinking water In Gaza, flood relief in bangladeshetc.
Born into a Protestant family in Malaysia, Blauvelt converted to Islam as a teenager. He knew the unspoken concerns of the people in the room. As he told me, he explained to Stripe: We are trying to bring humanity together. ”
Stripe’s Mr. Arboleda told Mr. Blauvelt that this was out of their control and that Stripe’s banking partner, Wells Fargo, had approached him about terminating the relationship. She said that was all she knew, and in fact it was all she was allowed to know. Under banking law, banks could not disclose the reasons for severing relationships with customers.
Note: The banking sector Joe Stiglitz thinks Regulations have been relaxed.
