United States

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Fast Company March 1, 2007 Andrew Park	The View from Florida-Ville What happens when every city in America craves the "creative class?" The escalating race to attract a creative class has birthed a cottage industry of consultants charging six-figure sums to assess a city's potential.
Reason March 2007 Jeff Taylor	Pagan Precedent The Rev. Jerry Falwell's devotion to defending religious expression in public school has helped young pagans spread their spiritual beliefs during the Christmas season.
Reason March 2007 Jacob Sullum	Smoke-Free Homes California is leading the way again with smoking bans that cover outdoor locations and even private residences.
Reason March 2007 Katherine Mangu-Ward	Subsidy Creep American produce growers should get the same treatment as corn and wheat farmers if our farm policy is to be equitable, predictable and beyond challenge.
Reason March 2007 Radley Balko	Prisoner's Dilemma After a nearly two-decade decline, violent crime in the U.S. has begun to inch upward again. So what's the solution? It probably isn't the "more laws, more prisons" approach that lawmakers typically adopt when crime goes up.
Reason March 2007 Jacob Sullum	Zoned Out Police and prosecutors worry that onerous residency restrictions will push sex offenders onto the streets or discourage them from complying with registration requirements, making them harder to track.
Reason March 2007 Brian Doherty	Bowling Together Sprawl and social virtue -- is time spent commuting injuring civic life in the U.S.? Probably not, according to two Harvard economists.
Reason March 2007 David Weigel	40 Years War The federal government's Automated Targeting System, launched in 2002, is a vast database that records who is traveling, gives them risk assessments, and adds them to a database for at least four years.
Reason March 2007 Radley Balko	Cold Comfort Given all the abuse the drug companies were taking because of meth cooks' illegal use of their products, you could almost forgive Pfizer for putting a useless product on the shelves.
Reason March 2007 Katherine Mangu-Ward	Who Gives to Charity? An interview with Arthur C. Brooks, author of Who Really Cares?: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism about what motivates Americans to give.
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