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Price caps do not cut rents, they cut apartments.
Olympia keeps treating a housing shortage as a pricing problem. It is a supply problem. When the state tells property owners what they may charge for rent by implementing rent control, fewer units come to market, existing…
New Poll Shows New Yorkers Want Cheaper Energy — RGGI’s Price Record Shows They Aren’t Getting It
Editor’s note: Roger Caiazza is an adjunct fellow at the Empire Center. He has a long and deep private industry background in environmental regulatory analysis and compliance. His frequently updated personal blog on New York…
The Seattle Times editorial board makes excuses for the budget failures it condemns
In June, Seattle Times editorial page editor Kate Riley acknowledged that the paper had a problem. Readers agreed with the criticism of Olympia’s spending, then pointed out that the editorial board had endorsed the people…
Meat processing deregulation puts health, safety at risk
On the heels of an announcement to allow 300,000 tons of beef into the U.S. without tariffs, the President announced late last week that the Administration was looking to “allow farmers and ranchers to be given the right to…
Ground beef imports are a no-win plan for consumers, producers
Flooding the market with additional ground beef probably won’t decrease the grocery bill for the average American consumer but it will make growing the U.S. cattle herd more difficult.When the President announced a plan to…
Wildfire Risk Demands a More Flexible Approach to Roadless Areas
The federal government is considering removing the Roadless Rule which was adopted in the final hours of the Clinton Administration in 2001. That rule, designed to protect wilderness areas, is now making it difficult to treat…
California court rewinds new AEWR methodology
A U.S. District Court in California has upended the new U.S. Department of Labor wage calculation methodology for the H-2A visa program in the United States. The judge ordered DOL to create a new methodology while leaving the…
Six charts that explain Washington’s budget problem
Washington’s budget problem is usually described by the majority party and other supporters of tax increases as a shortage of revenue. The evidence shows something different, as even rapid revenue growth and billions in new…
A school bell should not be a bargaining chip
On Wednesday morning, nearly 50,000 Seattle students are supposed to head back to school. Parents have arranged work schedules, child care and transportation around that promise.Whether the school bell actually rings is a…
How Bad Math Fueled a National Justice Reform Movement and Attracted Hundreds of Millions of Dollars
Since 2015, the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) model has been hailed as a transformative miracle in criminal justice reform. Promoted as a humane, evidence-based alternative to the arrest and prosecution of people…
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