Today’s Opinion Briefing: 

Contributing Columnist Allen Liu states that the decision from Major League Baseball (MLB) to move its All-Star Game from Georgia in response to the state’s new voting law will ultimately prove counterproductive.

Liu notes “In addition to failing to reverse Georgia’s voting restrictions, MLB’s decision to leave the state will harm the people that it intends to help. The departure will cost the state $100 million in lost revenue according to Holly Qunilan, chief executive of Cobb Travel and Tourism. This will hit the state’s hospitality industry and metro Atlanta, which is 34 percent Black, the hardest — all during a pandemic that has already disproportionately impacted low-income and minority workers.”

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Graduate Student Columnist Matt Mleczko argues that eliminating exclusionary zoning practices is a key step in addressing the housing crisis in the U.S. Mleczko states “municipalities can enact a panoply of land use restrictions, including minimum lot sizes, maximum building heights, minimum parking requirements, occupancy laws, excessive open space requirements, and explicit limits or moratoria on residential construction” which limit the supply of housing and inflate housing costs, and “disproportionately impacts communities of color.”

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THUS SPOKE THE UNDERGRADS: In the latest installment of their Ethics column, columnists Andi Grene, Claudia Frykberg, and Ethan Magistro offer their two cents on the age-old question: if you know that your friend is cheating on someone and the cheating-victim never finds out, did you do anything wrong?

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