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Charles Sykes, a columnist for the Isthmus, a weekly newspaper in Madison, Wis., has criticized the city for attempting to ban bottled water.

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Editor’s Insight: This is a column worth downloading and reproducing in newsletters. It is an excellent response to the rising movement among self appointed activists to ban or tax bottled water as an environmental cause.

Charles Sykes, author and columnist, formulates very sound positions against this misguided movement. This isn’t surprising to anyone familiar with his work. Not only does he present his position effectively and logically, he is also entertaining.

He points out in this column that Madison, Wis. recently repealed a 20-year ban on heated sidewalks, stairs, entrances and pedestrian walkways that was passed in the 1980s as an environmental measure. He asks where the bottled water ban movement will be in 20 years.

The newspaper this piece appeared in, The Isthmus, deserves credit for carrying Charles Sykes’ columns. The Isthmus is Madison, Wis.’s “alternative” weekly. Every major city has a similar “alternative” weekly that caters to its local liberal and leftist community. Sykes is the newspaper’s token conservative voice, and for this it deserves credit since few alternative” publications offer any dissenting views. 01-28-08