Bill Mego

There are many things local governments do more efficiently, and less expensively, than individuals can. Fighting house fires, for example. Fire departments make sense even to the most rabid libertarians...

Some town mottos are less about advertising than they are about humor. The motto of the city of San Andreas, Calif., for example, is "It's not our fault." Gettysburg, S.D.,...

There are so many great things about the summer. For one thing, you can finally get rid of that case of chilblains you picked up over the cold, wet springtime....

Not that long ago, we had a tax on personal property, which is a tax on items you owned and could take with you if you moved. You were supposed...

There came a time when people reluctantly accepted the fact that the Holy Roman Empire was no longer holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. And so it is with SECA,...