Last week, the Washington Supreme Court heard arguments about the constitutionality of two radical Seattle housing laws that handcuff landlords in selecting their tenants. Cities across the country are watching the court as they contemplate similar measures. The two laws in question, both aimed at limiting property owners' ability to exercise discr ...
Economist Thomas Sowell once quipped, "The first lesson of economics is scarcity" and "the first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics." With California's recent flirtation with statewide rent control, it seems Golden State lawmakers are treating Sowell's warning as a game plan. The results will be predictable: less affor ...
Presidential candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) recently unveiled an ill-advised scheme called "Democracy Dollars." The plan is to tighten up corporate tax loopholes and shower the American people with marginal revenue. But there's a catch — the recipients can only use the money for contributions to political campaigns. Thus, Gillibrand's ...
On Saturday, the Wall Street Journal published my op-ed about Navy veteran Joe Robertson, who went to federal prison for digging ponds high in the Montana mountains. Here's the article's opening: "I am haunted by waters," wrote Norman Maclean in "A River Runs Through It," his 1976 novel about growing up in a family of ...
The Supreme Court can remedy the injustice done by the EPA's unclear ‘navigable waters' rule. "I am haunted by waters," wrote Norman Maclean in "A River Runs Through It," his 1976 novel about growing up in a family of Montana fly fishermen. Joe Robertson was haunted by waters of a different kind—the kind that can ...
Artwork by PLF Client Kelly Lyles Landlords in Seattle can't ask about or even consider a rental applicant's criminal history. This edict was handed down in 2017 by the Seattle's "Fair Chance Housing" Ordinance. The law is merciless: it allows zero flexibility for the gravity or age of the offense or the circumstance of the ...
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