The judge also curiously found that the ordinance was only concerned with local pollution, despite the evidence pointing to a co-ordinated campaign beyond the community and that the ordinance initially began in a fight to keep Canadian oil out of the port. [...] The court sided with the City of South Portland, and the case eventually went before the 1st U. [...] the “Baptists and bootleggers” problem.13 Looking back to the historic days of Prohibition, the problem was identified in the building of unlikely allies as coalitions. [...] He wrote a weekly column for the Winnipeg Sun and contributes to The Taxpayer, the flagship publication of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. [...] The author of this study has worked independently and the opinions expressed are therefore their own, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the board of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
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