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(CNSNews.com) – Freshman Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) said that while government is necessary, it is also “something to fear.” “It’s pretty easy to describe what ails this country because far too many Americans have forgotten the basic premise of what our founders knew,” Johnson said in a speech on Friday at the Americans for Prosperity Foundation’s “Defending the American Dream Summit” in Washington, D.C. “What’s even more sad is far too many Americans were never taught the basic premise, and it was that government isn’t something here to solve our problems,” Johnson said. “Government--we need it,” Johnson said. “But, by...

Tram foes lose out in airspace opinion 06/26/02 JANET CHRIST The Portland city attorney's office says that airspace over a street is part of the right of way and that the city has the right to lease the surface and air. The opinion is the city's position on a petition filed this week by property owners along Southwest Gibbs Street. They don't like that the airspace above their street is a potential alignment for a recommended aerial tramway. The chief deputy city attorney, Linda Meng, said an Oregon statute gives the city the right to lease the right of way,...