It looks like the Pasadena City Council is getting ready to vote in October about banning plastic bags in the City. I have written about it previously HERE. I was contemplating what I could do to t...Read More
Swcamborne said: “The bags that consumers use represent less than 10% of the total packaging that end up in landfills. ” T replied: “Plastic bags make up 25% of the litter stream in the Ci...Read More
On Tuesday July 19th the Pasadena Environmental Advisory Commission had a public hearing on a proposal to ban the use of plastic bags in the city. This is the Nanny State mentality on Hyper-drive. I...Read More
Texting Illegal Writing Legal Talking on the Phone Illegal Talking to Passenger Legal Yelling at Children Legal The list goes on… Add your favorite: Other Posts about the Nanny State on SwCambor...Read More
Even the Democrats in the California Legislature couldn’t bring themselves to vote for this Nanny State Ban on Plastic Bags. The LA Times thinks it was defeated by plastic industry lobbying. ...Read More
While driving it is legal to eat, talk to passengers even put on make up or comb your hair. But it is against the law to talk on your cell phone. Why? It seems that the Nanny State wants to micr...Read More
In France this week they are getting ready to ban wearing burkas in public. Isn’t this a Nanny State act by the right. Telling people what they can and can’t wear is the state intrudin...Read More
Years ago some children were killed on bikes. So the governments, state and federal, passed laws that required children to wear helmets when they rode bicycles. The laws were of course supported b...Read More
No surprise that California is the source of this Nanny State story. AB 1998 would ban plastic single use bags from grocery stores and make the markets charge customers for paper bags if they forgot...Read More
This Nanny Report came from alert Swcamborne reader Stephanie M. It seems that San Francisco has banned regular sodas from vending machines on city property. Mayor Gavin Newsom implemented the pol...Read More