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December 4, 2023
Post-Prohibition Pot Regulation: Should It Be More Like Tobacco?
…matter, it’s simply easier to grow and smuggle; Americans seem indifferent to the fact that our purchases of illegal drugs effectively support narco-gangs in Latin America. It can even be…
October 12, 2023
Blue States Are Getting More Federal Money Than They Should
…“donor.” The most recent data from the New York Comptroller’s office show that for FY2020, the state received $146 billion more in federal funds than its taxpayers paid. But even that math…
October 12, 2023
Blue-State Benefits: How Federal Grants Fail to Consider Population Shift
…grants; the opposite is also true, although some programs guarantee a minimum for any state, no matter its size. What’s more—as common sense would dictate—when a state’s population declines, that…
October 4, 2023
Variety Is the Spice
…Washington Heights. It estimates a potential for about 200,000 such units if this housing option were legalized. Details about safety matter, of course; any legal units will require two exits…
September 28, 2023
How To Halt New York’s Ubiquitous Illegal Pot Blight
…implications for public order as the matters Bratton highlighted. The very fact some 8,000 illegal weed outlets have been allowed to operate with minimal law-enforcement pushback not only makes a dangerous drug…
September 8, 2023
Is Vote Dilution Necessarily Bad?
…mobilizing pressure “wherever Jews lived, but most particularly in their hometowns—no matter how small.” A memo set out the plan: “Your local Congressman may be the man who will make…
August 24, 2023
Want To End Apartment Warehousing? Ease Up On Rent-Control Laws
…improvements” to units to just $15,000 over a 15-year period. That means that no matter how much owners must spend to repair heating systems, roofs and windows, they’ll be limited…
August 11, 2023
Why Does NY Campaign To Stop Smoking But Not Illicit Drug Use?
…is no small matter in light of the latest Gallup survey finding 17% of Americans regularly smoke pot. Yet the state OCM chooses not to draw attention to health matters;…
August 7, 2023
Union Square Melee Proves Riots Have Little to Do with Real Political Grievances
The most revealing thing about Friday’s Union Square pop-up riot is that as police dispersed the mob, members started chanting, “Black Lives Matter.” Make no mistake: This was not a protest on…
August 5, 2023
Rent Control ‘Shabbifying’ NY’s Housing As Owners Feel the Squeeze
…matters even worse, barring rent increases for major improvements, lest they enable the alleged ill of gentrification. But the details of Gotham’s housing maintenance woes should get far more attention….