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February 23, 2024
After Milton’s MBTA Housing Defeat, The Way Forward Is With Persuasion, Not Mandates
…“The Multi-Family Zoning Requirement for MBTA Communities” is a classic, one-size-fits-all. Each of the 177 MBTA district cities and towns is mandated to create a district with a minimum gross…
February 7, 2024
To Save Local Journalism, Update The Public Broadcasting Act
…expand to more of the nearly 1,000 public broadcasting license holders across the country — the legislation that created public broadcasting in the first place needs a crucial update. A…
January 2, 2024
Billionaire-Built Cities Would Be Better Than Nothing
…off: The schools-ranking website Niche lists it as one of the best U.S. cities to live in. Today, with median housing values of $456,400 and median gross monthly rent of $1,723, the development is…
December 19, 2023
Sins of Omission: Public Broadcasting Fails to Reach a Broad Cross-Section of America
…insofar as public broadcasting stations across the U.S. receive shares of some $267 million CPB distributes as community service grants to them to operate and broadcast the NewsHour and other…
December 11, 2023
How Public Housing Encourages Single Parenthood and Penalizes Marriage
…private housing, paying more than 50% of family gross income for rent.” The income rule effectively favors those of lowest income—who are most likely to be single parents with children. Indeed, per…
December 8, 2023
Biden’s Even Worse Version of “Free College”
…in which agency officials modify laws without the hassle of having to pass legislation. Traditionally, this involves convening a broad cross-section of representatives to hash out a workable compromise. Because…
December 4, 2023
Post-Prohibition Pot Regulation: Should It Be More Like Tobacco?
…hundreds of thousands of locations across the U.S. It’s useful to consider how pot legalization compares with the situation in 1933, when the 21st Amendment abolished Prohibition of beer, wine and liquor…
October 31, 2023
It Takes Two
…critics? No one disputes the evidence that Kearney (pretty cursorily) reviews showing that across a large variety of outcomes, in hundreds of studies, children who grow up with a single…
October 27, 2023
What Happened to the American Dream?
In the agonized debates over how it can possibly be that Donald Trump has such a strong chance of being returned to the White House in 2024, it’s important to stress the…
October 27, 2023
What liberals don’t understand about men and marriage
…to be married, to be fathers and to live with their children. Because the data is cross-sectional, we obviously cannot say for sure that their normative orientation has caused these family behaviors….