Tag: <span>Bradley Harrington</span>

Tag: Bradley Harrington

Liquor Licensing Labyrinth

By Bradley Harrington “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” — C.S. Lewis, “God in the Dock,” 1948 — Prohibition was repealed back in 1933, but you’d never know it by looking at either Cheyenne’s or Wyoming’s liquor laws, …

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Who Is Running Our City?

(Aurthor’s Note) The City of Cheyenne seeks to plunder the pockets of its Sanitation customers … While they throw a $76,000 study into the trash that gives them an honest way (as honest as it can get in a mixed economy, at any rate) to raise millions of dollars to …

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City Budget Shenanigans

By Bradley Harrington “I realize this presents a challenge to you … But this gives us all some time to get our heads wrapped around the very rapidly increasing bond payment we’ve discovered on the Spiker parking garage.” — Cheyenne City Councilman Dicky Shanor, Speaking to Mayor Marian Orr, City …

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Instruments of Tyranny

By Bradley Harrington “A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny.” — Calvin Coolidge, “Memorial Continental Hall Speech,” 1924 — For anyone who has an honest interest in what …

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