A. Barton Hinkle on the Latest Bureaucratic Nonsense from Government Regulators

For a city that can’t keep its own
house in order, Richmond, Virginia, sure seems eager to make other
people straighten up theirs. As A. Barton Hinkle explains, at the
same time the city is embroiled in a disturbing scandal centering
on the child-welfare arm of its Social Services department,
Richmond officials have been handing out dubious violations for
unlicensed porches and other sorts of petty bureaucratic nonsense.
Don’t those government officials have anything better to do with
their time?

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