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Michael Ryan O'Grady

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Published in the Virginia Mercury, July 3rd, 2024.

COVID-19 infiltrated every socio-economic divide in Virginia. The next pandemic doesn’t have to. • Virginia MercuryEven in 2024, African American COVID-19 infection rates are approximately 29% higher than the rates of non-Hispanic whites in Virginia.

Published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, August 15th, 2023.

Commentary: Solve the affordable housing crisis? Start by rethinking new urbanismWe’ve seen new urbanism’s failed logic before, not just in housing: If we deregulate a market, producers will give us everything we need, right? Enron, Lehman Brothers and recently Norfolk Southern all produced disastrous results for communities when their deregulated greed finally imploded. Why would we expect deregulated zoning to produce different results?

Published in the Virginia Mercury, February 1st, 2023.

Youngkin blocked a battery factory from coming to Va. and an entire economic sector's potential - Virginia MercuryIn a macroeconomy where supply chains, networks and even business clusters are globalized, Youngkin’s policy of economic jingoism cannot win, says guest columnist Michael O'Grady.

Published in the Washington Post, September 28th, 2022.

Opinion | What’s at stake with Arlington’s missing middle housing debateArlington needs to change to save itself. Some form of up-zoning is inevitable. But history has shown that doing something isn’t always better than nothing.

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