Researchers in American universities supposedly enjoy academic freedom, but don’t count on it in Australia. A Sydney University researcher published findings showing that obesity in children was caused by eating too much. But the official position of the state health minister was that obesity was caused by children not getting enough exercise. So the minister had the researcher fired.

Drawing by Joe_13.

Childhood obesity is a problem all over the world. Even European countries where people supposedly walk and bike more than in the U.S., are facing increasing rates of obesity.

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MSNBC has listed the 10 best places to live in America, based on similar lists from Forbes, Kiplinger, Money magazine, and other listmakers.

Portland isn’t on the list.

Houston is number 4.

Only one of the cities on the list (other than Houston, whose “wham-bam tram” is a joke) has light rail (Charlotte), and its light-rail line is so new that it didn’t play any role in the selection.

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The Antiplanner has refrained from commenting on a recent Oregon land-use decision because it turns my stomach and because there doesn’t seem much point. The way that planners view property rights is so completely different from the way economists view them that never the twain shall meet.

Long-time readers will recall that, in 2005, Oregon passed ballot measure 37, which restored property rights to people whose land had been regulated by zoning and planning. Under the law, anyone who owned their land prior to regulation could ask for compensation or to have the rules waived. Landowners representing about 1.5 percent of the land in the state applied for compensation or waivers.

Two years later, Oregon voters passed measure 49, which practically repealed measure 37. Under measure 49, landowners could only subdivide their property into three parcels — even if the rules when they purchased the land allowed them to subdivide it into dozens or hundreds of lots. Under special circumstances, measure 49 allowed owners to subdivide into 10 lots. In addition, landowners who had already made a special investment in developing their property under measure 37 were exempt from 49.

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Portland’s Willamette Week newspaper used the Antiplanner’s name in vain this week, saying that — “aside from grumps” like the Antiplanner — many believe that Portland planning is “some of the best.” They then proceed to prove that the best is pretty pathetic.

Portland planned to clean up the river years ago — but you still can’t swim in it after it rains.
Flickr photo by masmediaspace.

The paper reviews two Portland plans, one written in 1972 and one in 1988, and list numerous parts of the plans that have not come to fruition. The 1972 plan, for example, promises to clean up the Willamette River. Yet today, whenever it there is a hard rain (which, in case you didn’t know, happens rather frequently in Portland), Portland’s sewage system overflows and dumps raw or partially treated sewage in the river.

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