[PEN-L:33541] frontiers of free enterprise

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Title: frontiers of free enterprise

from SLATE's news summary:>The Los Angeles Times leads with state budget sorrows nationwide. ... The LAT lead provides a disheartening economic roundup, state by sorry state. The most interesting trend--and the story should've focused more on this--is a collective throwing-up-of-the-hands from prosecutors, who have decided, in some states, to stop prosecuting minor--and some not-so-minor--crimes. In Virginia, for example, misdemeanor domestic violence cases will go untried--unless the prosecutor can find a corporate sponsor. "We could have the Nike Domestic Violence Prosecutor," he says. (Is he joking?) In Kentucky, Gov Paul Patton freed 567 "low-level felons"--drug dealers, burglars, and the like--in time for Xmas to save a few bucks. <

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