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The effect of Airbnb in cities

Published on Fri, 05/24/2019 - 5:04pm

When legacy businesses are threatened by new competitors, too often they respond by lobbying for regulation to quash them. It’s notable, then, that Marriott recently announced it is starting a new home-rental business, putting the world’s biggest hotel operator in direct competition with Airbnb, the world’s largest home-rental business.

The missing option in American politics

Published on Fri, 05/24/2019 - 5:03pm

WASHINGTON — In a country that spans a continent, in a party that produced Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, there is still no serious political challenge to the ideological supremacy of a corrupt, deeply prejudiced conman who cares nothing for democratic traditions, constitutional limits and moral norms. Donald Trump’s reelection would entrench a particularly vicious brand of Know Nothingism, advocated with tireless arrogance, combined with resolute ignorance, enabled by steadfast sycophancy.

It is time for government of, by, and for the employees to end

Published on Fri, 05/24/2019 - 4:11pm

Editor:

I am chagrined at the presumption of the city staff’s latest claim that they, and not the citizens of Livingston, are the ones who should determine the route of the July Fourth Rodeo Parade. 

Contrary to the “Leadership Team’s” imaginings for the last eight years, the Livingston City Commission is actually supposed to be in charge of the City of Livingston. This has been forgotten. The city manager Thursday emailed all five city commissioners at once and told them they were powerless and that the city police is in charge of the parade. 

Campaigning at a prison near you

Published on Thu, 05/23/2019 - 4:25pm

The good news is they stopped yammering about abolishing ICE.

It may be a reach to blather on about illegal immigration on the pages of a newspaper that is some 1,250 miles from the southern border. But being boring never stopped us before.

Ever since Trump arrived on the political scene Democrats have gone gonzo over illegal immigration. Anyone who suggests the flood of illegal immigrants crashing the border really is a problem is said to be a really rotten racist.

GUEST EDITORIAL: About that ‘junk’ health insurance

Published on Thu, 05/23/2019 - 4:22pm

House Democrats last week voted to reverse a Trump Administration rule that the left has branded as promoting “junk insurance.” So note that the vote arrives the same week as a fresh analysis about how short-term health insurance can be a better option than ObamaCare.

In money we trust?

Published on Thu, 05/23/2019 - 4:20pm

Look at the dollar bills in your wallet. They say they are “legal tender for all debts.”

But are they? What makes them valuable? What makes them worth anything?

Each bill says, “In God We Trust.” But God won’t guarantee their value.

The $20 bill depicts the White House. Congress is on $50s. But neither guarantees the value of our dollars.

IN-HOUSE: Our little piece of May has been stolen from us

Published on Wed, 05/22/2019 - 3:51pm

We are used to it around here — the cold, wet springs and the stinging May snowstorms. But they usually come and go. 

However, this recent nearly monthlong spell of wintry conditions, the endless rain and snow, the temperatures in the low 30s, the gun-metal gray clouds hanging low and sullen on the mountains for weeks on end, the cold east wind, the invisible sun, is different — it has not been coming and going. Just coming.

No, abortion isn’t a constitutional right

Published on Wed, 05/22/2019 - 3:48pm

In the past several weeks, a bevy of states have passed extensive new restrictions on abortion. Alabama has effectively banned abortion from the point of conception. Georgia has banned abortion from the time a heartbeat is detected, as have Ohio, Kentucky and Mississippi. Missouri has banned abortion after eight weeks. Other states are on the move as well.

GUEST EDITORIAL: Trump’s mixed signals could lead to a clash with Iran

Published on Wed, 05/22/2019 - 3:47pm

Apprehensions about an imminent military confrontation between Iran and the United States have subsided for the time being, after a tense period in which the Trump administration, citing heightened threats, sent an aircraft carrier and bombers to the region and the Pentagon reviewed contingency plans for war.