With Abbott Labs today announcing a new COVID-19 test capable of producing results in five minutes, we’ve witnessed the remarkable pace of innovation that can be unleashed when government monopolies are torn down. Here’s a rough timeline since flawed tests were released and the federal government removed the monopoly on kit production: Feb 5: CDC […]
Coronavirus contemplations
Sensible grocery stores in the United States and Canada are protecting workers by banning the use of reusable bags. This is hardly surprising. As I wrote in National Review in 2018, research has found that the use of these grocery bags, which users almost never clean, can “cause a wide range of serious health problems […]
Assorted links – August 2019
Toddlers Don’t Have to Go to School Last fall, Harvard researchers published findings in the New England Journal of Medicine showing that in states with a Sept. 1 cutoff for kindergarten enrollment, children who were born in August were 30% more likely to be diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder than their peers who were born in […]
A response to a hatchet job in Crosscut
An opinion piece published this week on Crosscut by Walter Hatch, who lives in the Phinney Ridge / Greenwood area, was bizarre. In it he suggests that most of his neighbors who comment on Nextdoor lack any compassion and are profoundly contemptuous of the homeless. While his piece amounts to nothing more than a whiny rant, it’s […]
Five years of ‘The Kerrant’
Five years ago today I launched my blog and began this labor of love. When I embarked on this journey, my goal was to write one or two posts a month on the twin topics of public policy and being a dad. In publishing my 100th blog post earlier this week, I comfortably hit that […]
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