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Is the UN Using Bike Paths to Achieve World Domination?

There is nothing new about local land use efforts being manipulated or sabotaged by politics --  that's been a part of the American scene since George Washington was a child. There isn't a city or town or county in this country that hasn't been afflicted at one time or another by bickering over zoning and development. What's new here is that the successful arguments being deployed against new, "sustainable" land uses are: 1) detached from the merits of the plans themselves, and 2) beyond the realm of mainstream political thought. Read More

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