California Is Trying To Drive Landlords Out of Business
Which is bad news for anyone hoping to rent a place to live.
Which is bad news for anyone hoping to rent a place to live.
The university has a history of suppressing speech from both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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San Francisco's prohibitionists worried that opium dens were patronized by "young men and women of respectable parentage" as well as "the vicious and the depraved."
In 2021, the Associated Press uncovered rampant sexual abuse at FCI Dublin. After three years of failing to fix the problem, the Bureau of Prisons is shutting it down.
San Francisco's prohibitionists worried that opium dens were patronized by "young men and women of respectable parentage" as well as "the vicious and the depraved."
A similar law in California had disastrous consequences.
A proposed ordinance would empower people to sue supermarkets that close without giving the city six months' advance notice.
Bruce Frankel was tased by a police officer in 2022 after his fiancee called 911 seeking medical help. Now he's suing.
Instead, the White House is pushing for similar job-killing regulations on the national level.
Concerns about public safety will eventually recede, but Big Brother will still be watching.
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The entrepreneur, who founded the Cicero Institute to fix government and the University of Austin to fix higher education, wanted space to flourish.
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Giving the state control over insurance rates turned pricing into a Byzantine regulatory process.
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A change that promised to be a moderating influence on politics has instead made campaigns more vicious than ever.
The whole project was supposed to cost $33 billion when it was initially proposed.
The judicially approved Brookline ban reflects a broader trend among progressives who should know better.
The project might determine whether new generations will be able to take part in the American Dream.
In California, which has a slew of renewable energy regulations, the cost of electricity increased three times faster than in the rest of the U.S.—and the state still doesn't even get reliable energy.
Charlie Lynch’s ordeal is a vivid reminder of a senseless prohibition policy that persists thanks to political inertia.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom's response to allegations of favoritism only serve to underline how the entire fast food minimum wage law was a giveaway to his buddies.
A federal judge ruled that three men who committed nonviolent felonies decades ago are entitled to buy, own, and possess guns.
California's poorly served public school students need more than a few more dollars diverted to tutoring programs. They need an escape hatch.
Students should be able to peacefully protest events, but they shouldn't disrupt a speaker or assault attendees.
Probably because Greg Flynn, who operates 24 of the bakery cafes in California, is a longtime friend of Gov. Gavin Newsom.
The market has created a lot of dog-free housing for a reason. A bill from Assemblymember Matt Haney would destroy it.
The measure, which will be on the March 5 ballot, would greatly expand the SFPD's power while subjecting it to even less scrutiny.
If you’re going to set arbitrary prices for labor, why not shoot for the moon?
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The surveillance yielded 49 arrests, of which 42 were for possession or sale of narcotics.
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"Why isn't there a toilet here? I just don't get it. Nobody does," one resident told The New York Times last week. "It's yet another example of the city that can't."
The proposal seems to conflict with a Supreme Court ruling against laws that criminalize mere possession of obscene material.
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