Reason Alert: $1.9 Trillion, Billionaire Welfare, Toxic Populism, and the Town that Didn't Lock Down

Reason Alert Friday, March 12, 2021     Friday Funnies The big winners of the stimulus bill. By Dana Summers Friday Movie Review: Another Round  The Danish film is getting some well-deserved Oscar buzz.   By Kurt Loder  Biden's Coronavirus Relief Plan Will Probably Cost a Lot More Than $1.9 Trillion  The pandemic relief bill isn't just a one-time splurge. It's the start of a new era of federal spending.    By Peter Suderman  Biden Goes Big Somehow, policymakers slid from "never waste a crisis" to "everything is a crisis," a development that is particularly irksome during an actual crisis.  By Katherine Mangu-Ward  The Town That Didn't Lock Down  A Reason reporter went to Paso Robles, California, where many businesses defied state orders to close. He enjoyed it. He also got COVID.  By Christian Britschgi  CDC May Relax Its Disastrously Strict School Distancing Rules  Mounting research shows that the Biden administration's politicized continuation of the six-foot rule last month flouts science and threatens full-time K-12 education in the fall.  By Matt Welch California's Teachers Unions Are Still Fighting To Keep Children at Home  Despite billions in additional funding and assurances from the CDC and Anthony Fauci that schools can operate safely in person, the unions are holding out for 100 percent vaccination and lower transmission rates.   By Zach Weissmueller  Public School District Boundaries Are a Relic of The Past  Prioritizing legislation that would allow students to more easily transfer to schools outside of their residentially-assigned districts.  By Aaron Garth Smith and Christian Barnard  Video: Elon Musk and Other Billionaire Welfare Cases  And what taxpayers can do to stop it.  By Nick Gillespie Josh Hawley's Toxic Populism  Is the senator's authoritarian grandstanding the dark future of the GOP?   By Peter Suderman  President Biden Says Drug Users Shouldn’t Go To Jail  “No one should go to jail for a drug offense, no one should go to jail for the use of a drug," President Joe Biden said.  By Spence Purnell  Cops Who Assaulted and Arrested a Man for Standing Outside His Own House Got Qualified Immunity. SCOTUS Won't Hear the Case.  The Supreme Court delivers another blow to a victim of egregious police abuse. By Billy Binion  Biden Justice Department Sides Against Free Speech Advocates in Big First Amendment Case  The federal government weighs in on Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L.  By Damon Root  Why Dr. Seuss Is Worth Defending  Banishing him from library shelves is a slippery slope.  By Robby Soave  Californians Get to Vote on State’s Ban of Flavored Tobacco Products  In the Nov. 2022 election, Californians will decide whether to ban the sale of nearly all flavored tobacco products.  By Guy Bentley  The Challenges Facing the Florida Retirement System  Why Florida's pension debt is rapidly growing.  By Pension Integrity Project    If this email has been forwarded to you and you would like to subscribe to Reason's email newsletters, please go here. Donate Reason Foundation 5737 Mesmer Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90230, USA Privacy Policy   Manage Your Preferences Unsubscribe - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -