It's a Sprawl World After All? By C.C. Kraemer Is John Hieftje a saint or a sinner? Depends on whom you ask. According to the value judgment of Thomas Jefferson he's a sinner. The third president said that "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical." Despite the timelessness of Jefferson's wisdom and its universal relevance, to the eco-activists and anti-sprawl elitists, Hieftje, the mayor of Ann Arbor, Mich., is most certainly a saint. It is his role as a leader in a movement to...