A couple columns

I had two pieces come out this week, one on Monday and one today.

Here's the first column, "Stop the unions (well... sort of)", in which I argue that "banning corporate and union election spending would be a boon for the political process — both for substantive and optic reasons."

And here's my column in today's paper, "Education goes private." My contention is that a new and insidious consensus on higher education funding has emerged:

That new consensus among state politicians is roughly this: We can reduce public support for our state universities, as increased efficiency — along with tuition hikes and money from other private sources — will prevent them from being egregiously hampered. (Not all state elected officials believe this, but as far as I can tell, non-adherents are anomalies.)

These assumed upshots have already proven false.