Tim W. Ferguson
Over 40 years in journalism, Tim W. Ferguson has tackled specialties ranging from Asian business to mutual funds to criminal justice. He’s written hundreds of articles and edited many more than that. He tries to apply principles of economics (such as allocation of scarce resources) to all of his work.
A current, longer project examines changes in land-use policies of the South Fork of Long Island from 1970-2000, as development and preservation collided, and how those actions shaped life today in “The Hamptons.” For posts related to this project, click here.
Featured Articles
Our Hamptons Podcast – Interview
TIM W. FERGUSON – OUR HAMPTONS PODCAST
I discuss all things Hamptons with Esperanza and Irwin from the Our Hamptons podcast.
Last Shot at New Golf in Greater Hamptons
TIM W. FERGUSON – BLOG
When an 18-hole golf club—private and exclusive—opens in the next couple of years at the controversial Lewis Road luxury development in East Quogue, it will mark the latest and probably the last of 135 years of links building on and around the South Fork of Long Island.
Red Alert for Public Pensions
DISCOURSE MAGAZINE
The problem of pension shortfalls can be just as bad in red states as it is in blue ones.
Battle Lines Over Single-Family Zoning
DISCOURSE MAGAZINE
On both the libertarian right and the progressive left, the cause of ‘affordable housing’ is dividing political camps when it comes to legislation like California’s SB9.
The Left’s Long March Against Coors
DISCOURSE MAGAZINE
‘Brewing a Boycott’ describes 30 years of shunning with a flat result.
Medicare Taxes as a Guide to Progressive Social Security
MILKEN INSTITUTE REVIEW
If the Democrats sweep Washington this November, attempts to reduce inequality are likely to include altering the iconic middle-class retirement program. Some unfamiliar history suggests how.
Help Preserve the Local News… All of It
TIM W. FERGUSON – BLOG
Initiatives such as Report for America are tackling the crisis of local (and state) journalism, which has seen the rapid depletion of reporting ranks at newspapers and other media across the country.
Who Will Pay for All Those Empty Stadiums?
MILKEN INSTITUTE REVIEW
For years, economists have cautioned — well, scolded — that the common practice of financing sports venues with taxpayer-backed bonds was buying trouble.
Asian Review: More $000s Than Heroes Of Late
FORBES
At this fall’s Forbes Global CEO Conference in Bangkok, I asked a panel of wisemen: Where is the transformative national leader of our day, akin to Lee Kuan Yew in 1960s Singapore or (forgetting Tiananmen) Deng Xiaoping in China?
It’s a Dog’s Life — You Wish
MILKEN INSTITUTE REVIEW
The 1970s were infamously the time in which the U.S. middle class began its long decline. But while their version of the American Dream has been going to the dogs since, the fate of pet canines in many of those same homes has vastly improved.
Current Research
The Shaping of the Modern Hamptons
From 1967, when a legislative ally of Gov. Nelson Rockefeller
successfully carried a bill to extend the Sunrise Highway through the undisturbed farm-woodlands belt of the Hamptons to Amagansett, to 1999, when the Community Preservation Fund became law to preserve open space on Long Island’s East End through a surtax on property sales, a political and policy revolution reset the priorities of one of America’s choicest locales. This is a story of what wasn’t built–including that highway–as well as what was.
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