Editorials

The wizards seem not to have heard that when you tax something you get less of it. The proposal is a reprise of the council’s 2018 tax on each new hire that was repealed amid public opposition. The new proposal “is 10 times larger than the 2018 version, and it’s also in an economy that’s about 1,00…

While I don’t have a solution for this deficiency, I’d like to highlight one city in particular where this seems to be the case: San Francisco. The Covid-19 pandemic now underway in the United States is, of course, wreaking havoc throughout our economy. Fortunately, entrepreneurs and co…

This column isn’t about Sweden, but the press now claims Sweden’s Covid policy is “failing” because it has more deaths than its neighbors. Let me explain again: When you do more social distancing, you get less transmission. When you do less, you get more transmission. Almost all countries are pursu…

Perhaps the best example of this is the New York Department of Health agreeing to purchase ventilators from a Silicon Valley vendor whose only qualification appears to be a Twitter reply to President Donald Trump. The ventilators never showed up. As BuzzFeed first reported, New York paid Silicon Va…

But so far, the CNMI government’s handling of the still raging Covid-19 pandemic has been exemplary. A task force led by medical experts has been formed. Quarantine sites have been identified and are being utilized effectively. Emergency directives have been issued and are updated and/or amended as…

We do know, by contrast, that the double standard that has been exhibited by Biden’s campaign and by the political press in tandem is a national disgrace. Both culturally and legally, due process must be habitually applied to nobody or to everyone. If, upon the most frivolous and protean of pretext…