Photo: California's Wildfire Recovery
Many of the houses destroyed by the Pacific Palisades fires were not covered by private insurance due to state regulations.
Many of the houses destroyed by the Pacific Palisades fires were not covered by private insurance due to state regulations.
The ballot proposition would effectively require health insurers to cover all treatments at any price.
When the government picks energy winners, consumers lose.
Plus: the federal government tries to stiff landlords over eviction moratorium one last time, the Supreme Court declines to take up eminent domain case, and starter home bills advance in Arizona and Texas.
California once was the state where a visionary might start up a gee-whiz concept in a garage. Now bureaucrats and powerful unions would crush that concept in its infancy.
The researchers found that drug seizures in San Francisco were associated with a substantial increase in fatal opioid overdoses.
"Supply-side progressives" like Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are ultimately technocrats, not libertarians. But they recognize that more is better than less and that a good society is not zero-sum.
No, not even if you do it in a county that borders Mexico.
North Carolina and Virginia have managed to keep quality up and costs down.
The owner of a beloved neighborhood structure spent years—and thousands of dollars—trying to comply with L.A. bureaucrats’ demands.
Plus: Texas and Minnesota consider an aggressive suite of housing supply bills, while San Diego tries to ratchet up regulations on ADUs.
How pot bureaucrats used legal weed to push their social justice agenda
During Trump's first term, California filed numerous lawsuits seeking to halt deregulation.
Linda Becerra Moran died on February 27 after nearly three weeks on life support. On Sunday, the LAPD released video of her being shot.
An online administration meltdown and question leaks leave test takers frustrated and furious and others demanding answers.
Lawmakers in Arizona and California are attempting to overcome local resistance to meaningful starter home reforms.
From insurance to affordable housing mandates, California's regulatory noose tightens over wildfire rebuilding efforts.
A new study suggests California's ill-fated board diversity requirements did not enhance firm value.
The wildfires will be one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history. Hopefully they will also teach policymakers some lessons.
When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis banned cultivated meat, Reason's Zach Weissmueller visited California labs to try cultivated chicken and salmon and explore the future of this industry.
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Some of California's architectural wonders were consumed by the flames.
A(nother) look at how human trafficking panic gets made.
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The potential risks from a major wildfire have been well known for years, but there was little appetite to solve those problems before disaster struck.
A proposed state bill would allow individuals and insurers to sue oil companies for wildfires damages.
Public records obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation show how sensitive police databases are used and abused.
Anyone who thinks state regulatory agencies will help them doesn't understand how these agencies actually operate.
Lawmakers across the country introduce bills to strengthen private property rights, crackdown on out-of-control regulators, and get the government out of micromanaging stairways.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom must allow prices to rise if he wants homes to be rebuilt as quickly as possible.
Needless regulation on fire insurance, "speculators," and duplexes means fewer dollars are going to rebuild Los Angeles.
Laws requiring a "driver" in driverless cars make as much sense as requiring a horse to be yoked to the front of an automobile, just in case.
Californians are turning to private firefighting and security, but officialdom gets in the way.
Author and podcaster Meghan Daum lost her home in one of the wildfires affecting the Greater L.A. area. She joins the show to discuss what the city is like right now, and how it got this way.
The California governor is using state of emergency powers to make unsolicited offers to buy people's property in fire-affected areas "for an amount less than the fair market value."
There's nothing wrong with offering to pay for a service people are willing to provide.
It shouldn't take a disaster for the state to consider fixing the rules that make it so expensive to building housing there.
The Department of Homeland Security is watching men who are mad they can’t get girlfriends.
The Golden State has many bad policies in desperate need of reform. It's not obvious they had more than a marginal effect on the still-burning fires in Los Angeles.
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