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The bullies have cheerleaders, by Gregg Walker, Publisher of Lakeland Times
September 11th, 2009 | 
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The bullies have cheerleaders
Funny, I thought we lived in a free country. Apparently I have been wrong on that count, as I have come to conclude by watching the state’s most powerful bureaucracy, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, ram its proposed new shoreland zoning rule down our throats. The whole idea that we needed a new rule was thought up in some war room deep inside the DNR - by none other than unelected bureaucrats. In the seven years since they unveiled their “improved” NR115, they have yet to come up with any real rationale for why it is needed. They say the current rule is inadequate, but they do not document how. They tell us we need oppressive impervious surface limitations, even for nonriparian properties, some a half-mile from water, but they back up these absurd assertions with no science. Indeed, their whole initiative shockingly reveals the naked truth about it: The proposed rule is illogical and discriminatory. Read the rest of this entry »
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