FREEDOM MATTERS ARCHIVES, Volume 2




Below is a list of the Freedom Matters weekly newsletter featured articles, volume 2, previously sent out via email dating back to January 4, 2002. Articles that focused on reviewing specific books are also listed separately in Book Reviews.

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Freedom Matters  Vol.2 No.1 Fred Smith's Letter to the Mount Horeb Mail

Freedom Matters  Vol.2 No.2 The Curfew Tolls: What Troubles Will it Solve? What Troubles Will it Make?

Freedom Matters  Vol.2 No.3 Town Boards that Violate Law

Freedom Matters  Vol.2 No.4* Land Use Planning: Trojan Horse for Socialism
*This issue is 'as is', incorrectly labeled as Issue No.3

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Vol.2 No.5  The Return to Feudal Tenure

Freedom Matters  Vol.2 No.6 The Case Against County Exercise of Zoning Powers via Deed Restrictions

Freedom Matters  Vol.2 No.7 Risk Management: The Nationhood Under Fire

Freedom Matters  Vol.2 No.8 Smart Growth: A $100 Million Mandate

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Vol.2 No.9  A Lightning Bolt of Reality: The Forced Relocation of Rural Populations

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.10 Is Springdale, its Planning Commission & its Town Board Creating its Own Nightmare?

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.11 The Last Town Hall in Springdale

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.12 The Springdale Land Grab Continues 

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No. 13  Toward a Wilderness Utopia

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No. 14  Environmental Extremists Don't Represent Most Americans

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No. 15  Anti-Local Control Plan Nearly Here

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.16 What Happened to "Compromise" in Springdale?

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.17 Bill Speers on Environmentalist Tactics

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.18 The Bankrupting of America: Federal Control of Land Use?

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.19 The Bankrupting of America: More Federal Control of Local Land Use

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.20 The "Progressive" Income Tax: A One Act Play

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.21 "Not Raising Hogs" and other Interesting E-mail

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.22 Information from ECO, a property rights group

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.23 Commuter Rail in Dane County-- The Dizzy Land Express

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.24 Commuter Rail II: Empty busses, empty trains, empty tills, empty pockets. Empty heads.

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.25 The Vast Problems of Mass Rail

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.26 What's Fishy about Fish Lake? Your Politician at Work. An Update.

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.27 A Time for Truth

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.28 Hayek's "Road to Serfdom"

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.29 A Set of Principles for America-- Principles that Speak for Themselves

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.30 When Ideologies Become Set Like Concrete, It's People Who Suffer

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.31 Do Not Call--The Newest Multi-Million Dollar Tax

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.32 Letter to the Wisconsin State Journal on Termination of the Dane County RPC

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.33 The Legality and Politics of Stopping Prosperity. Part I. The Legality

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.34 The Legality and Politics of Stopping Prosperity. Part II. The Politics

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.35 A Letter from Ed Thompson

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.36 Our American Heritage--Freedom. A "Living Constitution" is Killing It

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.37 Will the Town of Springdale Zone Land by a Land Division Ordinance?

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.38 Ugly to the Max. The 2002 Springdale Land Use Plan: A Political Time Bomb

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.39 If it Walks Like a Duck...A Legal Test for What Constitutes Zoning

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.40 Decapitalizing America Part I: How to Prevent Prosperity

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.41 Repeal Mandatory Comprehensive Planning So It Is Voluntary Instead

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.42 J. Zane Walley's Caught Twixt Beasts & Bureaucrats

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.43 Dane County Regional Planning Commission

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.44 Dane County Regional Planning Commission Part 2

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.45 When is a Land Use Plan a Local Plan? Not When the Planner is Hired by the City!

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.46 Green Greed, Sound Bites, and Unsound Governance

Freedom Matters Vol.2 No.47 Retrospective: Freedom Matters, 2002