Public Policy

Michael Mills on Politics and Policy

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Is Santa Barbara a backwater? (8/26/03) This article sparked a discussion over e-mail; some of the contributions have been posted below.

Reply 1 (by a friend)
Reply 2 (mine)
Reply 3 (the same friend)
Reply 4 (another friend)
Reply 5 (mine again)
The Mayor and the middle class (9/5/03) (mine)

Santa Barbara subsidizes housing for families making $160,000 a year, Boston Globe (8/22/06)
Browsing the web for blogs commenting on this decision is pretty entertaining, but everyone's taste in blogs is different. I'll let you look for yourself ....

The aristocratic city (10/5/03) (mine)

Baumol's cost disease

PBS special on globalization

City of Santa Barbara website

City of Goleta website

Goleta Homeowners' Rights Association Ironically this group is represented publicly by another man also named Michael Mills, who lives in Goleta like I do but who is (as far as I know) no relation to me!

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