On this Memorial Day, Paul Krugman revisits California's Proposition 13.
For those of you too young to recall, thirty-odd years ago, California voters went to the polls and made it much, much more difficult for lawmakers to raise property taxes.
Author Archives: Sheila
Preventive Detention
The always-perceptive Hilzoy zeroes in on the problem with so-called "preventive detention."
If we don't have enough evidence to charge someone with a crime, we don't have enough evidence to hold them. Period.
Read it and Weep……
Just when I thought there was nothing left that could surprise me anymore…
Exactly!
In a recent post on Dangerous Intersection–a favorite blog of mine–someone named only "Hank" responds, at considerable length, to a statement from one Albert Mohler, a conservative Catholic quite critical of a recent speech by the Pope.
Our Pathetic Mayor
You know, it's bad enough that Indianapolis' "accidental" Mayor is still trying to figure out what Mayors are supposed to do. But even when he tries to do something right, he just can't seem to pull it off.