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Baltimore push to restrict liquor stores

A little while back, Mayor Bloomberg’s crew in New York City floated a trial balloon about restricting liquor sales, pursuant to the now-familiar “public health” rationale. After meeting with instant...

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T-shirt message: “I picked out my beverage all by myself”

Business fights back in the arena of public opinion against Mayor Bloomberg’s soda ban. [Michael Grynbaum, NY Times "City Room"] More: Regarding Monday evening’s “Million Big Gulp March,” “It is not...

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“We’re not going to protect you”

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, on TV the other day answering a question about why the public doesn’t demand the enactment of gun control after the Colorado theater shooting: “Well, I would take...

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Food roundup

Chicago city government joins Boston in threatening to use regulation to punish Chick-fil-A for its political views [Josh Barro, Eugene Volokh, earlier, Tim Carney] NYC hearing on Bloomberg soda ban...

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Splashback: NYC beverage firms defend themselves against Bloomberg

For now, at least [Ira Stoll, earlier]. Related: “Soda Noir,” Owen Smith’s funny cover illustration for the June 18 New Yorker. And George Will reveals in his column that as part of its stimulus...

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NYC approves ban on large sodas

As expected, the New York City Board of Health has gone along with a proposal from Mayor Michael Bloomberg and become “the first in the nation to ban the sale of sugared beverages larger than 16 oz. at...

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Colorado vs. Bloomberg’s NYC

If present trends continue, we’ll wind up with states where pot is legal and munchies aren’t. Tweet Tags: Michael Bloomberg, nanny state Colorado vs. Bloomberg’s NYC is a post from Overlawyered -...

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Food roundup

Misguided USDA regs are shuttering much-admired (and safe) artisanal Denver salumeria [Baylen Linnekin] “If you’re a woman and you’ve had an average of more than one drink a day, the [CDC] considers...

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Asset unfreeze

Probably a parody: New York mayor announces ice cream buyback program [Alex Tabarrok] Tweet Tags: guns, Michael Bloomberg, obesity Asset unfreeze is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost...

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Mayor Bloomberg vs. painkillers

“So we now have a politician directly dictating medical policy to doctors at city hospitals.” [Radley Balko] P.S. In the mayor’s view, just as you can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs, so you...

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“Guns are largely forbidden in Bermuda…”

…but Mayor Bloomberg of New York, one of the nation’s most famously anti-gun politicos, has a dispensation for armed bodyguards from his own NYPD. [NY Times via Instapundit] Tweet Tags: for me but not...

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NYC: Bloomberg mulls ban on Styrofoam cups, containers

Joining Seattle and Brookline, Mass., the “Bloomberg administration is considering banning Styrofoam cups and containers — popular at thousands of delis and food carts across the city — as it prepares...

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Mayor Bloomberg as paladin of civil liberties?

Yes, on the First Amendment he’s been pretty decent, but as to the rest, surely you jest, Ms. Kaminer [Jacob Sullum] Tweet Tags: First Amendment, Michael Bloomberg Mayor Bloomberg as paladin of civil...

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Bloomberg soda follies, cont’d

The mayor is urging New York state to adopt his city’s ban on large sugary drinks [NY Daily News, CBS New York] And under recently announced details, the city’s ban will prohibit the buying of 2-liter...

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Judge to Bloomberg: unhand that soda

In a sweeping decision, trial court judge Milton Tingling has struck down the ban on sugary drinks decreed by the New York City Department of Health, which had been scheduled to go into effect...

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Judge strikes down Bloomberg soda ban, cont’d

My new op-ed at the Daily Caller is their “most shared” this morning. Excerpt: On Monday, Judge Tingling struck down the soda ban in a sweeping opinion that does everything but hand Mayor Poppins his...

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Bloomberg’s Soda Grab and the Separation of Powers

[cross-posted from Cato at Liberty] I’m at the Commentary magazine blog this morning with a second bite (second gulp?) at the NYC soda ban ruling. This time I look at the separation-of-powers angle,...

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No, it wasn’t “activist” to strike down Bloomberg’s soda ban

I respond at Cato to a remarkably lame piece by Slate’s Emily Bazelon. Earlier on the case here and here. Tweet Tags: constitutional law, judges, Michael Bloomberg, soft drinks, WO writings No, it...

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March 22 roundup

$10 million judgment “won’t hit Albuquerque property owners on their tax bills because it’ll come out of [city's] self-insurance fund” Say what? [Albuquerque Journal via Ed Krayewski, Reason] Latest...

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Ted Cruz offers “Bloomberg Amendment”

“This amendment would prohibit federal regulation of the size and quantity of food and beverages,” the Texas senator’s office explained of his budget proposal, which was not adopted by the Democratic...

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