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Jerry W. P. Schauffler, longtime Pacific Legal Foundation trustee,...

In Massachusetts, anyone who does their own plumbing without a license is breaking the law. 

“The nuclear family was a mistake,” David Brooks declared in The Atlantic in 2020. He meant it not as an attack on the family but as nostalgia for multigenerational living.

There are sudden home invasions and then there are slow ones, the kind that unfold over months or even years, by increments so small you don’t realize you’ve lost control of your home until it’s too late. That’s what having a nightmare tenant is like.

In Rhode Island, it seems, the storm is just the beginning. The real damage to your home comes afterward, at the hands of the State.