State’s home equity theft scheme robs family, funds private company’s windfall

Home is everything to Tina Dupere, and in 1996, she moved back into her childhood home in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, to live with her mother, Mary Ann.

But when Mary Ann suffered a debilitating stroke in 2010, medical bills began to pile up and the Duperes were unable to pay their 2016 property taxes. Over the next three years, the Town of Dartmouth and investment firm Tallage Davis, LLC took the entire value of the Duperes’ home—more than $330,000—over the original tax debt of just $2,535, leaving Mary Ann and Tina with nothing.

Home equity is just as much property as a home itself, and just as protected under the Constitution.

To solve DC’s housing crisis, we need more than planning—we need to rethink zoning

With the D.C. Council set to vote on its massive update to its Comprehensive Plan in the coming months, it’s high time to ask the hard question: Are we are using the right tools to address equity and affordability in housing?

Not if it’s zoning. Brian Hodges explains that zoning may be the government’s century-old go-to community development tool, but it doesn’t create new housing. Property owners do.

Royal Pain: Prince Harry—and his media fans—need educating on why the First Amendment matters

Prince Harry’s adjustment to his new life in United States with actress wife Meghan Markle has been bumpy. He drew especially strong reaction when he called the First Amendment “bonkers” in a recent podcast interview.

The erstwhile royal admitted he’s been here only a short time, so let’s give him a pass for dismissing a core American liberty. But Kathy Hoekstra tells us who doesn’t deserve a pass: The U.S. media.

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