On Work, Purpose, and Dignity

This post isn’t about municipal governance, but hey, I’m on vacation. The other night I was listening to a popular political podcast. The host and his guest are both known for being thoughtful and intelligent, and identified themselves as being an “elder millennial” and an “ancient GenZ” (40 and 28 respectively), and yet they bothContinue reading “On Work, Purpose, and Dignity”

Economic Development

Few politicians get elected without promising “jobs, jobs, jobs!” At the same time, it seems like the folks most interested in job creation don’t want to see those jobs be government jobs: there’s a long history in North America of distrust toward the public sector, and a commitment to free markets and privileging the privateContinue reading “Economic Development”