Research shows this to be a stark choice: higher energy prices costs lives, and lower energy prices saves lives. Playing politics with energy prices plays with people's lives.
What should such an advisory council do? Preferably, play the role of servus publicus and keep reminding the governor, "Hominem te esse memento!" That is: Remember that you're mortal man.
Gov. Cooper's office wants to justify direct handouts ("grants") and tax cuts ("tax incentives") to just one industry — film productions — because they'd patronize small businesses in North Carolina.
Ohio just enacted regulatory budgeting. For at least the next four years, agencies cannot add a new regulatory restriction without sacrificing two old restrictions.
Housing options increase in high-demand areas unless restrictive zoning laws are in place. If they are in place, however, they're doubly harmful to affordable housing.
The money sections like to print helpful articles on helping people stretch their scarce dollars and warning against the pain of higher prices on necessities. The editorial sections favor policies that confiscate those dollars and create that pain.
