In Flint, disinvestment from the state was followed by a more pernicious state role.
So it is welcome news that a state judge in Arkansas has struck down a pernicious 2008 state law that barred even qualified same-sex couples and other unmarried couples living together from serving as adoptive or foster parents.
But it could be argued that low tax receipts now are having a pernicious impact, particularly on state and local governments.
Some blamed the press, including Sir Gerald Kaufman, who said he preferred an "irresponsible, indeed a pernicious press, to a state-regulated press". But even he thought that the papers' procrastination had gone on too long.
Two dozen men with guns entered an Oklahoma City diner promptly at midnight on Wednesday, intent on inaugurating a pernicious new law allowing the state's 142,000 citizens with concealed-handgun licenses to begin wearing their loaded weapons publicly.
We refuse the superficial politics of condemnation engaged in by western states to further a pernicious agenda of more war and intervention, which, importantly, is what gave rise to groups such as Isis in the first instance.
First, state-level politics can play a pernicious role.
So why in the world would policy makers in any state even consider carrying political water for such a pernicious industry?
Forbes stated that Harding's personal physician, Charles E. Sawyer, was a "pernicious meddler".
President Lincoln in his last speech, on April 11 , 1865 called the question about whether the Southern states were in or out of the Union a "pernicious abstraction".
