Jones Act Debate Takes Center Stage on Leading Podcast – Bloomberg’s Odd Lots

(From left to right) Cato Spokesperson Colin Grabow, Bloomberg's Tracy Alloway, Bloomberg's Joe Weisenthal, and the Transportation Institute's Sara Fuentes discuss the merits of the Jones Act.

By VOICES Staff. The Miracle Theatre, Washington, DC’s oldest movie theater, was packed with an engaged audience as one of the nation’s leading podcasts – Bloomberg’s “Odd Lots” – recorded its first-ever episode on the Jones Act. Hosted by analysts Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway, this was also the show’s first live event in the […]

Michael Lind: A libertarian radical sank America’s maritime industry. It needs to be restored.

Portrait of Martin Anderson Assistant to the President for Policy Affairs (ORIGINAL IMAGE: White House Photo Collection Galleries / Ronald Reagan Presidential Library)

By Michael Lind, Economics Editor at Commonplace. Ironically, it was the administration of President Ronald Reagan, an ardent Cold Warrior, that crippled American shipbuilding and America’s merchant marine. The individual most responsible for the destruction of America’s commercial ship construction industry was Martin Anderson, who served in the Reagan White House as assistant to the […]

Living Classrooms showcases country’s first Black-owned shipyard in Fells Point

By Kim Dacey, WBAL-TV. BALTIMORE — Living Classrooms is working to preserve the country’s first Black-owned shipyard in Fells Point. Down by the Inner Harbor in Fells Point, crews are hard at work on the Lady Maryland ship, making sure she’s seaworthy. “At the shipyard, they would caulk ships, fix ships, help to haul ships […]