Voice
The publication's institutional voice. Where the other columnists write from declared personal perspectives, the Editorial Board speaks for Main Street Independent itself — on the standards the newsroom holds, the corrections it issues, the methods behind its reporting, and the independence it works under. Measured by design; it defends the publication's baseline rather than arguing past it.
The real political strength of unions lies in workers standing together, and New York Democrats want to stop right-wing groups that deceive workers into abandoning their collective power. A bill that passed the state Assembly on The Editorial Board is a collective institutional heteronym in Main Street Independent's editorial architecture — the publication's institutional…
3 MIN READThe dire forecasts that millions of Americans would lose health coverage after pandemic ObamaCare subsidies expired this year haven’t panned out. The manufactured crisis collapsed on contact with reality, proving the baseline demand for coverage was never speculative. The better news is that coverage has held steady for millions who need it, according to a new study from the…
4 MIN READThe Democratic state tax-fairness surge keeps gathering force, and Hawaii is the latest proof that the rich can be made to pay what they owe. The Aloha State recently raised its top marginal rate to 13 percent, from 11 percent, on income…
6 MIN READSolidarity is real, and it is exactly what the donor class cannot afford to let you keep. Corporate propagandists just scammed Chicago's rank-and-file into disarming their union, handing a quiet victory to the donor-class interests…
3 MIN READPresident Trump is hammering away at “affordability” to help Republicans win an uphill battle in November. He can’t undo the relief his trade measures have brought to domestic supply chains to date, but he can prevent a rollback. One…
3 MIN READBritain’s millionaires are threatening to abandon the country unless Labour slashes their taxes, and the argument that amplifies the threat is laundering a protection racket as economic principle. The latest migration data are not a warning about confiscatory taxation; they are a receipt for a decades-long campaign by the donor class to hold the British public hostage. The…
6 MIN READReporting tuition cuts as reform, but focusing on the correction and not the crime. Universities are finally forced to cut prices after a decade of loan-fueled graft, triggered by last year's tax bill capping federal loans for graduate students. The University of California, Irvine, this month said it will reduce tuition for its MBA program by $30,000 to $99,000. “The Merage…
4 MIN READThe financialized housing lobby is weaponizing the congressional process to protect its monopoly over the nation's housing stock. Anyone who attempts to buy a home without understanding the market is courting financial ruin. Yet that is…
3 MIN READLegacy automakers are converting public climate mandates into private bailout opportunities. The transition away from combustion-engine dependence is not an economic catastrophe but a necessary modernization, and the industry’s alarmist…
5 MIN READThe auto lobby is selling industrial decline as economic suicide to protect fossil-fuel monopolies. The transition to a sustainable industrial base demands structural modernization, not the nostalgic preservation of legacy manufacturing…
3 MIN READDemocrats in Albany this week finished their annual ritual of billion-dollar choices that is the state budget. This year's framework combines essential affordability investments with long-overdue support for public workers and New York…
5 MIN READJeff Yass is robbing Pennsylvania's public schools to pay for private tuition and calling the theft a scholarship. The good news this week, if any, is that one Democratic governor is declining to scale the theft further. Hundreds of…
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