Roosevelt Island Mailbag

The Jones Act, shaming, and alternate Covid-19

I’m on a very quick trip to a conference on Roosevelt Island in New York City, where I’ve never been despite having grown up in NYC. It is of course best known to the world as the setting of “Dark Water” (2005), a screenplay by Rafael Yglesias.

Kate Hall: What needs to happen before we can finally get rid of the Jones Act?

Mike Lee is the main Jones Act r…