National League
Why the Nationals’ Playoff Loss Was the Best Thing That Could Have Happened to Washington Sports
I wish we had won—had held on in the ninth; had played Game 1 of the National League Championship Series against the San Francisco Giants last night; had had a shot at the World Series. But as the pain of Friday night subsides and detachment comes more easily, an undeniable fact emerges: the Nationals, and Washington, needed this. In fact, the gut-punch of a loss may have been the best possible thing that could happen to the capital city’s nascent baseball culture. READ MORE >>
The Force of a Woman
The Lady and the Peacock: The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi By Peter Popham (The Experiment, 448 pp., $27.50) READ MORE >>
Last night, the National League defeated the American League 5-1 in the eighty-second MLB All-Star Game, posting its second consecutive victory after more than a decade of losses to the AL. Last night’s game took place at Chase Field, the home of the Arizona Diamondbacks. READ MORE >>
Local Government Fiscal Crisis Mounts
On Friday my colleague Mark Muro showed us “four different styles of [fiscal] trainwreck” from Western states, which is the subject (along with a few suggestions for improving budgetary processes) of a report we released last week with the Morrison Institute in Arizona. READ MORE >>
Aung San Suu Kyi's Plea for Democracy
What a Drag: Local Government Cuts Hit Home
We’ve been warning about the economic implications of the coming local government fiscal crisis for more than a year (see this paper and event we did with the National League of Cities last fall). Now, the crisis is actually starting. Witness the dispiriting newjobs report. READ MORE >>
Too Little Too Late?
In November 2009 we and the National League of Cities (and many others) warned that steep state and local public sector cuts loomed on the horizon, and that these cuts could undermine any nascent economic recovery just as the federal government’s unprecedented stimulus spending wound down. Well, from the looks of July’s disheartening jobs report, this prognosis is now the new reality. READ MORE >>
Trust The Medicare Trustees
Conservatives are charging the Medicare Trustees report, which says that the Affordable Care Act has extended the life of the Medicare Trust Fund, with double counting. Jim Horney shoots this objection down: READ MORE >>
