Are recent oil price hikes a conscious effort by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to hurt President George W. Bush’s election chances? This question is a topic of comment in other countries, but has received little, if any, attention…
My tiff with TIF: It’s misleading
My wife and I have often talked about a small addition that would extend the back porch the full width of the house and let us have a bigger kitchen. It would be nice if the government would give us…
Seemed like a good idea at the time
Economic policies on taxes or health care seldom are redesigned from scratch. Instead, change comes as serial modifications to existing systems. This is an understandable outcome of our political process, but it makes us poorer than if we occasionally stepped…
Benefits drive buses
The primary issue in the transit strike is what constitutes an acceptable level of compensation for Metro Transit employees. Controversy generated by the strike, however, exposes a second fundamental issue. What costs and benefits are there to society from public…