News and Commentary Liberty Towers affordable housing development faces zoning map, text, and permit barriers to construction in St. George, Staten Island, writes Vanessa Londono for New York's Yes In [...]
News and Commentary Matt Shafer announces that The Council of State Governments has received a grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to support development of new interstate compacts addressing [...]
Tom Lehrer is one of the most brilliant people in human history. Though a Harvard-trained mathematician, his most famous works are in the field of musical satire. A pioneer in [...]
News and Commentary Hannah Lang observes Randal Quarles' potential indication that the Fed will not make permanent May's interim exclusion of Treasury securities and Federal regional bank deposits from supplementary [...]
Sonny Bunch at The Bulwark’s media newsletter “Screen Time” (which I encourage readers to subscribe to) had an interesting article about how movie studios are continuing to leverage their power [...]
Rent Check We don't have much to go on in figuring out how a Justice Amy Coney Barrett would rule when it comes to intellectual property, but an exchange with [...]
Intellectual property is usually the red-headed stepchild of Supreme Court nomination hearings, and the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett is no exception. With few cases to go on, most of [...]
News and Commentary Michael Powe and Hanna Love extrapolate from a small business owners survey for Brookings, writing that rural businesses' proximity to each other is critical to economic recovery [...]
Rent Check Alex Muresianu has a guest post discussing the role of occupational licensing fees and state finances. Though a tempting source of revenue, relying on licensing fees to shore [...]
San Francisco has just released the final report of its Economic Recovery Task Force. There are a lot of good parts to it--reducing regulatory burdens associated with housing construction among [...]