The top issues for local free marketers

Since we launched Opportunity Now in the summer of 2019, we've provided free market perspectives on many issues confronting Silicon Valley policymakers: from homelessness to school choice, from tax systems to land use regulations.

As an end-of-year special, we are re-posting our top ten individual stories, as measured by reader pageviews, nearby. We don't claim this list marks some magical divination of local readers' concerns, but it does provide interesting insight into stories that got clicked on the most, linked to the most, received the most attention on social media, and prompted the most online discussion,as those are the elements that generally drive pageviews.

Because many of the top posts addressed similar themes, it may also be useful to note the top 5 issues our readers responded to most. They are:

* Broken and unfair tax system.

* Flawed land use policies and regulations

* Increased race-based rhetoric and race-baiting from local progressives

* The attack on charter schools and school choice

* The attack on free speech in elections.

We have been honored and surprised by the scope and intensity of reader support since we launched this effort with just two college interns last summer.. Our readership growth has greatly exceeded our expectations (sometimes crashing our servers-sorry about that), as have the very generous financial donations from supporters in the community. 

We founded this site because we noticed that free market perspectives were often missing from important local policy discussions and media coverage, and that those perspectives deserve to be heard.

It appears a good portion of Silicon Valley agrees with us.

Thank you for you support, your comments, your interest, your arguments, your agreements,  and your disagreements. But mostly, you have our gratitude for your engagement in a fair-minded, courteous, and wide-open debate about how market forces can help our community achieve greater prosperity, equity, fairness, and sustainability. 

Because the opportunity is now.

Your Opportunity Now Team:

Jeff Cristina and Christopher Escher, co-founders

Simon Gilbert and Will Newcomb, web editors

Follow Opportunity Now on Twitter @svopportunity.