<Speech delivered to the Executive Business Roundtable of the Bellevue Chamber of Commerce on January 9, 2020 at the Overlake Golf and Country Club, Medina, WA.> It’s an honor to be speaking here. The Bellevue Chamber of Commerce and other groups like it are important institutions for advocating on behalf of businesses and advancing policy […]
RIP Lime bikes—another case study in Seattle City Council regulatory incompetence
News out just before Christmas that Lime has pulled its e-bikes from Seattle means that Uber (with its Jump brand) now has a monopoly on bike sharing in the city. This follows the departure of Ofo in the summer of 2018 after the city raised its annual fee for operators to $250,000, far above what […]
Big little climate lies
In episode 3 of this season’s star-studded HBO show ‘Big Little Lies’, Renata (played by Laura Dern) explodes when her daughter, Amabella, is hospitalized after suffering a panic attack as a result of her second grade teacher’s discussion about what global warming might do to the world. This leads the principal to call a school […]
The Incredible Whiteness of Washington State’s ‘Progressive’ Policies
(This first appeared in National Review on May 27, 2019) Democrats in the state government are harming blacks and helping whites. Washington State progressives who like to position themselves as allies of blacks are failing to live up to their promises. In the state’s most recent legislative session alone, Democrats passed several measures that will […]
Waitstaff 1: Bosses 0–thanks free market
Restaurant owners across the country who eliminated tipping have reversed course in droves, to the relief of their staff and the benefit of their bottom lines. As Nikita Richardson documents in Grubstreet, beginning in 2015 numerous marquee establishments from New York to San Francisco instituted no-tipping policies. While their motivations were noble–they liked the convenience […]
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