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A news story in today's Journal implicitly makes the best case for Kelo—that there's no substitute for discretion. Of course, that's also at the heart of the case against it.
Paris finds prosperity not to its taste. As a matter of taste, I'm no fan of big box stores, either, but the idea of a commerce committee banning businesses for being too succesful doesn't leave a good taste in my mouth, either, especially given the city's apparent lack of any coherent alternative business plan or vision.
In New York, the Transit Authorty suddenly discovers billions of dollars of trouble ahead, endangering numerous projects. The agency, which has no elected leadership and its own budget distinct from those of the city and the state, has a habit of alternately discovering, as it were, and losing, billions at the drop of a memo, while the agency and its leaders pay no price for these sudden shifts.
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