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Articles in Dec 2006 issue of Reason

• Registration required: you too can be a sex offender
  by Kerry Howley
• Pamela Goodson returned home to find that a Buncombe County, North Carolina, police officer had shot her St. Bernard
  by Charles Oliver
• Big easy choice: schools in New Orleans
  by Lisa Snell
• Zero sense: Draconian school policies
  by Brian Doherty
• March of the moles: surveilling Americans
  by Tim Cavanaugh
• Nanny nation
  by Jeff A. Taylor
• Happy 40th birthday, Star Trek
  by Jared Barber
• Quotes
• In Melbourne, Florida, Jack Garrison received a notice of almost $1,400 in fines on charges ranging from a barking dog to a squirrel at large
  by Charles Oliver
• New York Judge William P. Polito has denied a request from transsexual Sarah Rockefeller to change his name to Evan, saying Rockefeller must provide medical evidence first that he is suffering from "gender identity disorder."
  by Charles Oliver
• The city council of Escondido, California, has voted to begin drafting a law prohibiting landlords from renting property to anyone who can't prove U.S. citizenship
  by Charles Oliver
• Immigration now, immigration tomorrow, immigration forever
  by Bob Simeone
• Britain's Royal Mail is refusing to deliver anything to a small community on the Ardmore peninsula in Scotland
  by Charles Oliver
• 35 years ago in reason
• When a jury in Hawaii announced it had acquitted Junior Stowers of abusing his son, he raised his hand and said "Thank you, Jesus!"
  by Charles Oliver
• More than 20,000 Ann Arbor, Michigan, residents received a telephone call around midnight alerting them that a man with Alzheimer's disease had wandered off
  by Charles Oliver
• Cory Maye, the subject of Radley Balko's investigative report "The Case of Cory Maye" , is no longer condemned to die