If landlords are expected to absorb cost increases without automatic recovery, the city should likewise commit to freezing or tightly capping growth in its own major cost centers. If the answer is that such a model would be unrealistic, destabilizing, and likely to degrade public services, then the council should acknowledge that the same economic logic applies to housing operations.
As local elected leaders, we have a responsibility to respond to the aggressive federal immigration enforcement that is affecting our community.
Any military victory over the Iranian regime is an existential impossibility because the very definition of the regime’s existence: is diametric opposition to the United States and absolute rejection of the right of Israel to exist.
