Construction regulations have evolved through a rigorous process guided by professional expertise. But safety and housing affordability shouldn’t be seen as competing goals.
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.
The circumstances have to be right, and real urban change agents know not to promise the impossible.
Changes at the U.S. Postal Service could harm political campaigns and voters alike. To safeguard democracy, they will need to adjust to new realities.
Outdated assessment systems are opaque and structurally biased, leading to “data rot.” Local governments should invest in tools that make it easier for taxpayers to understand how their property is valued.
What happens when familiar words of government are blended to take on new meanings? Perhaps a chortle or two.
The lithium-ion devices that power our electrifying society pose serious safety and environmental risks. Life cycle stewardship must keep pace, and governments have a major role.
The state will need to reform its antiquated tax code, warily approach bond measures that tie the hands of policymakers, and get serious about spending oversight.
Laws targeting the practice have been a mess. It benefits both businesses and consumers, and pricing decisions should be left to market forces.
A Tennessee program’s success stems from a yearlong commitment to housing stability, employment continuity and social support. It merits national attention.
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