Hot off the Press: No guns allowed edition

Here's a very nice Toronto Star rebuttal to a column written in the Buffalo News complaining about Canadian fans at the recent World Junior Hockey Championships: http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey/article/919250--kelly-canadian-world-junior-fans-criticized-in-buffalo?bn=1.

With low taxes, business-friendly policies, and a dedication to cut wasteful spending to eliminate deficits, Texas is a beacon for conservative fiscal ideology. However, things don't look so rosy with a $25 billion budget gap: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/opinion/07krugman.html.

To date (Jan. 12), 61 people have applied to fill the three vacant Iowa Supreme Court seats: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20110112/NEWS01/101120361/61-apply-for-seat-on-Iowa-Supreme-Court.

A so-called sequel to The Catcher in the Rye, written by a Swede, has been banned from publication in the US and Canada because it is "a rip-off, pure and simple": http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12181223. Plagiarism is a big no-no, people.

Won't you spare some wireless, brother?: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/opinion/14rubinstein.html.

Enticed by incredible state subsidies (and the prospect of lower overhead, aka paying lower wages), Evergreen Solar is moving its production of solar panels from Devens, Massachusetts to China: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/15/business/energy-environment/15solar.html. Here's an interesting graph:

Beyond the issues of trade and jobs, solar power experts see broader implications. They say that after many years of relying on unstable governments in the Middle East for oil, the United States now looks likely to rely on China to tap energy from the sun.

In light of Iowa's new "shall issue" stance on gun permits, Iowa businesses are now taking measures to ban guns on their premises: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20110118/NEWS/101180360/Retailers-defend-no-guns-warnings. This brings up a somewhat interesting paradox for anti-regulatory sharks. Those who believe the state had no right to force private businesses to ban smoking may want government action to force private business to accept customers packing legal heat.