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There Once Was a Vote in Nantucket

Charles Oliver | 4.20.2015 6:00 AM


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Voters in Nantucket, Massachusetts, have banned helium balloons. Those who introduced the measure at a town council say the ban will protect marine animals, which mistake the balloons for food.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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