Bigger than a Breadbox
Why doesn’t the mainstream media have dedicated reporting on regulatory affairs?
Beware of geeks bearing gifts.
“This past week, the final rule cost total for just 2024 can now be measured in 13 digits. While no rule matched the singular impact of the prior week’s EPA rule – because, really, what could? – this was also one of the more prolific weeks in recent memory. Similar to the preceding week, there were 20 rulemakings with some quantifiable economic impact. Roughly one-third of these actions had cost estimates measured in the billions of dollars, with EPA looming large once again. Across all rulemakings, agencies published $103 billion in total costs and added 11.6 million annual paperwork burden hours.”
How a Bureaucratic Change Helped Save Israel
The strategic reality was that Israel always belonged to Central Command. Why it was part of European Command’s mandate at all sounds like a bureaucratic accident. The Abraham Accords made it impossible to ignore this plain truth. The switch of responsibility for things Israeli to the command focused on the Middle East facilitated coordination and relationship-building between Israel and some Arab states
This is a big deal.
The description is deceptive. It couldn’t have been an “obscure” rule if it was capable of this kind of impact.
“An obscure bureaucratic change enabled the extremely successful, coordinated defense of Israel against the recent Iranian attack. President Donald Trump’s January 2021 decision to transfer Israel to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) ensured the unprecedented Israeli-American-British-Arab collaboration that repelled 99 percent of Iran’s missiles and drones.”
Sands official rips NY for slow-walking state gaming licenses with 3 casinos planned downstate
For a bureaucrat, it’s an interesting existential thought-experiment?
If a private person incurs a cost because of bureaucratic delay, is it really a cost?
“Sands has pitched a $4 billion casino complex at the Nassau Coliseum site in Uniondale but the state gaming commission said it won’t decide as many as three new casino licenses in the New York City area until late 2025 — after nearly three years of preliminary discussions.”
Addiction worker estimates 90 percent of "safer supply" drugs resold on black market
Well, this is awkward.
“It is difficult to pin down exactly how much of British Columbia government’s pharmaceutical “safer supply” is getting laundered into organized crime cash pools used to purchase fentanyl or trafficked directly into Canada’s population, including youthful drug abusers that can get their hands on government hydromorphone — known on the street as “Dillies” or “Smack” according to the D.E.A. — for a few bucks per tablet.
“Two things are clear though.
“Very significant amounts of taxpayer-funded Dillies are diverted into the holdings of drug gangs. And it isn’t politically feasible for B.C. police officers aware of these trends, to say so.”