The American Conservative A Built-In Solution to America’s Housing Shortage Easing restrictions on accessory apartments will allow us to maximize the housing stock we already have. George Liebmann Jul 21, 2023 12:01 AM Thirty-three years ago, I published an article urging states and localities to relax zoning restrictions on accessory apartments and home occupations. After […]
Dobbs Comes to Maryland The state and localities are wrestling with post-Roe realities. George Liebmann The AmericanConservativeOnlineJul 5, 2023 12:01 AM The Dobbs decision brought an end to the federal regime of abortion-on-demand, with only a vague “mental health” standard previously limiting third-trimester abortions. Abortions are no longer available with certainty. The screams that the […]
Maryland’s Ill-Considered Jobs Program Maryland’s urban youth desperately need opportunities, and Governor Moore’s new program doesn’t deliver. George Liebmann,thyeamericanconservativeonline Apr 4, 2023 12:01 AM With great fanfare and much-sought national publicity, Governor Wes Moore of Maryland has unveiled a “a year of service” program for high school graduates. It amounts to a token program whose […]
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Congressional compromise: Republican modifications to a Democratic agenda could satisfy all | GUEST COMMENTARY By George Liebmann For The Baltimore Sun • Nov 21, 2022 at 10:58 am A simplistic Democratic wish list at the federal level would include: An assault weapons ban; Marijuana legalization; Amnesty for illegal residents of long standing; A $15 minimum […]
Politics Foreign Affairs Culture 20th Anniversary Gala Account The Cooperative Route for Housing Development For real change to happen in the suburbs, developers and RCAs will need to work in tandem. The AmericanConservativeOnline,Oct 21, 2022 Change in the suburbs comes slowly. Public-sector inertia has long doomed schemes for housing, zoning, and local government reform, such […]
Book Announcement- JOURNAL OF TWO PLAGUE YEARS by George W. Liebmann This is a collection of 70 op-ed pieces appearing in the Baltimore Sun, The American Conservative Online, the Washington Examiner, Chronicles Online, the Washington Times, and the Calvert Institute website in the two years beginning with the presidential election of 2020. It reflects the […]
A Material Agenda for a New GOP The Democrats’ pivot to identity politics presents an opportunity for Republicans on economics. TheAmericanConservativeOnline, George Liebmann Aug 31, 2022 12:01 AM For half a century, “civil rights” organizations and the Democratic Party have worked hard at creating coalitions of the disaffected, ‘slicing and dicing’ the electorate along lines […]
Failed consent decree to blame for city’s high murder rate Baltimore Sun, August 29, 2022 Cities that have toyed with consent decrees like Baltimore have higher homicide rates since two of their principal effects are to discourage police recruitment and prevent proactive policing (“Baltimore police reform remains essential to any hope of crime reduction,” Aug. […]
Welfare Reform, British Style America could take a page from Britain’s Citizens Advice Bureaux. TheAmericanConservativeOnline George Liebmann Aug 19, 2022 12:01 AM Americans have grown accustomed to constitutional litigation launched by well-prepared federally subsidized legal-services offices seeking to nullify state and municipal laws. These groups frequently overwhelm the ill-prepared assistant state attorneys general and assistant […]