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A rotating cast of Classical Liberals from at least three continents and four Hudson wards, each lured to town by spouses who promised the Cotswolds or Napa and neglected to mention the socialists.
Former mayors and emotionally compromised nonprofit workers from Greenport and Catskill keep trying to dox our Warren Street editors, apparently unaware that members of their own circles send us our best material.
We publish without bylines, because ideas matter more than authors. The tradition is older than the republic: Cato's Letters (1723), Common Sense (1776), The Federalist (1788), and two centuries later, The Economist and The Free Press (originally Common Sense).
Hudson is not the "Tale of Two Cities" you were sold at the last fundraiser. It is a Tale of Three Cities: the Wealthy Class who treat Hudson as a weekend campus, the Welfare Class kept dependent on a public purse the Welfare Brokers skim, and the Working Middle Class who pay the bill. Hudson is America in miniature. Fix Hudson and you learn how to fix the country. We exist to connect the Hudson Heroes — Builders, Stewards, Citizens — into a Corps of Common Sense.
Three concepts anchor how we read Hudson:
Municipal Capture (cause): public money flowing to the Welfare Brokers who lobby for more public money.
The Hudson Handicap (cost): the cost of that capture, paid by the productive class in taxes, regulations, and assessments that fall hardest on those who can least afford them.
Hudson Hypocrisy (defense): the progressive vocabulary that makes capture legible as virtue. Capture produces the Handicap. Hypocrisy defends it.
In a captured city, the answer is rarely the voter.