Author: Rob Goodspeed

The New York Times On Taxes

From their story today on post-Katrina politics: Economic growth is crucial to reducing poverty, but the effect of tax rates is less clear. In 1993, President Bill Clinton raised taxes on upper-income families, the economy boomed and poverty fell for the next seven years. In 2001, President Bush cut taxes deeply, but even with economic […]

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Rent Control in D.C.

Council member Jim Graham is going to introduce a stronger rent control law for the District: Dear Friends, It’s time for some real rent control in the District of Columbia! Many of us have watched rental prices go up, up, up… despite the rent control law the Council wisely and recently extended for five years. […]

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Woodson House Update

I got this over a neighborhood listserv about the Carter G. Woodson house: Carter G. Woodson National Historic Site — Presented by the National Park Service, which took ownership of Dr. Woodson’s home at 1538 9th St. intends to open it up as a National Historic Site in the next 5 to 10 years. The […]

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A Student Think Tank?

I attended an event today held on Capitol Hill hosted by the new “student think tank” the Roosevelt Institution event on Capitol Hill today launching their new policy journal. Speaking were Doug Bailey, founder of the Hotline, Quinn Wilhelmi, executive Director of the Roosevelt Institution, and Jesse Wolfson, the editor of their new journal, The […]

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Google Gets Into the Portal Business

I’ve been experimenting with Google’s new personalized home feature which enables anyone with a Google account to create a customizable homepage. In typical Google style they don’t out-do the competition (like MyYahoo) on features, but instead simplicity and ease of use. You can drag and drop the content units around freely from the normal display […]

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New Orleans Photos

My friend Eric is an intelligence officer with the 82nd Airborne Division of the U.S. Army. He just returned from his deployment in New Orleans, and has posted over 100 photos he and his friends took while there to Flickr. See the Flickr photo set here. He even got to meet Senator Collins, being the […]

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