Sweeping state limits — or eliminating the tax altogether — are politically appealing. But cuts in property tax rates combined with targeted state tax relief are less disruptive to local finances.
This long-depressed city has overcome some of its most serious problems. Maybe others can accomplish the same thing.
Especially when it comes to data centers, it’s hard to square the costs to taxpayers with the benefits to states’ economies.
It’s a core public safety issue: Researchers need access to agency data, but it can be difficult or impossible to come by. You can’t solve a problem you can’t measure. Model state legislation offers a framework for expanding access.
Construction regulations have evolved through a rigorous process guided by professional expertise. But safety and housing affordability shouldn’t be seen as competing goals.
For public officials who support equal opportunity, recent court rulings and other developments provide reasons for a little optimism.
Whether it’s political polarization, ruthless social media or federal interference, this is a particularly tough time to be in elected office in a city or a state.
For a few of them, particularly ambitious Democrats, the answer is yes.
Compounds far more potent than fentanyl are emerging faster than ever. State and local overdose tracking systems should be built to detect them.
We need to reward outcomes that enhance community safety. The place to start is with the way we staff our prisons.
We make it too hard for immigrants with substantial education and professional experience gained in other countries to work here at their skill level, filling critical labor shortages. We should evaluate competence in a rigorous yet realistic way.
It provides a natural space where identities overlap, reducing partisan prejudices. It could be key to easing our fierce divisions.
It’s all too easy to deploy a system that does more harm than good, undermining public trust.
President Trump’s desire to place his party in charge of national elections is a tactic that collides with 250 years of constitutional history.
Temporary pandemic-era changes helped a lot. Continuing revival requires systems calibrated to rural scale rather than to urban norms.
It could provide a controlled framework for innovation, testing and deployment of technologies like AI and blockchain.
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