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Landlord’s Foreseeable Duty: Who Is Liable When Crime Lands on the Doorstep?
/in Featured, Podcast Hubwonk /by Editorial StaffJoe Selvaggi talks with retired Federal Judge Frank Bailey, president of Pioneer Public Interest Law Center, about the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s decision in Hill-Junious v. UTP Realty, LLC, regarding the limits of liability for a landlord when a murder occurs near her tenant’s location, and the challenges facing small entrepreneurs in high-crime communities.
Pioneer Institute Objects to Ballot Petitions on Rent Control and MCAS
/in Featured, News /by Editorial StaffPioneer Institute today filed with Attorney General Andrea Campbell letters expressing opposition to certification of two ballot initiative petitions, one relating to rent control and the other proposing the elimination of MCAS testing as a condition for graduation from a public high school, because both initiative petitions, as drafted, are unconstitutional.
Colossal Academy’s Shiren Rattigan on Microschools and School Choice
/in Featured, Learning Curve, Podcast /by Editorial StaffThis week on The Learning Curve, guest co-hosts Charlie Chieppo and Kendra Espinoza interview Shiren Rattigan of Colossal Academy, a microschool in Florida. They discuss how Shiren became interested in K-12 education and how and why the COVID-19 pandemic led to her founding a microschool.
Trump’s Trial’s Tribulations: Legal Merits of Four Federal Felony Fraud Indictments
/in Featured, Podcast Hubwonk /by Editorial StaffJoe Selvaggi talks with legal scholar and George Mason University professor Ilya Somin about the legal merits of the federal indictments against former President Donald Trump and what is likely to come next in the legal proceedings against him and other defendants in the cases involving the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election.
U.K. Cambridge’s Prof. David Abulafia on Oceans, Seas, & Global Trade
/in Featured, Learning Curve, Podcast /by Editorial StaffThis week on The Learning Curve, Professor David Abulafia from Cambridge University discusses the many roles of the world’s oceans in human history and trade. He focuses on how the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic oceans, along with the Mediterranean Sea, have spurred the rise of civilizations. He concludes with a reading from his book The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans.