You Can’t Build a City on Pity
Urban visionary and Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist on making city government more efficient and less costly for taxpayers
When courts make law, art of compromise lost
The public debate over gay marriage has converged largely on the interests of those who agree or disagree of the traditional definition of marriage. But are we losing sight of an even larger issue in the emotional rhetoric? Society has a clear interest in supporting loving relationships whether they are homosexual or heterosexual, but in the age of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, are Canadians losing the power to determine how their society is to evolve? Is the important process of political compromise and consensus being short-circuited in this debate by judges inventing rights to suit their personal political prejudices? And are we devaluing the whole concept of “rights” in the process? In this commentary AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley examines the same sex marriage issue and the unchecked power of the judiciary.
State Run Auto Insurance: How to make a bad situation… worse
Insurance, particularly auto insurance, has been a “hot” issue over the past year. Emotions have been running high and that leaves people vulnerable to the latest scheme that sounds like it will solve the problem with the wave of a magic wand.
AIMS On-Line for mid September, 2003
An invitation to lunch with urban visionary Mayor John Norquist of Milwaukee, lessons from the west coast's experience with property rights in the fishery and Brian Lee Crowley on how Employment Insurance causes unemployment.
Maine Maritime Business Summit Introduction
AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley opening of the first Maine Maritime Business Summit including introduction of featured speakers.
Maine Maritimes Business Summit
A meeting of senior business people to discuss practical development of the Internation Northeast Economic Zone