Local Government

• California's Latest Deadbeat Property Owner: The City of Stockton, Matt Welch, May 11, 2012
• Broke Arizona Town Wastes Nearly 10% of its Annual Budget Subsidizing Professional Hockey, Matt Welch, May 10, 2012
• Newark Targets Newsstand After Owner Talks to Newspaper, Ed Krayewski, April 26, 2012
• Tasers for Transit Workers?, Ed Krayewski, April 17, 2012
• Cops May Throw Wet Blanket on Nude Maid Service, Ed Krayewski, April 13, 2012
• Pennsylvania Town Seeks to Squash Scourge of Garage Sales, Ed Krayewski, April 12, 2012
• Des Moines Busybodies Want Things to be One Way, But it's the Other Way, Baylen Linnekin, December 1, 2011
• The Affordable Housing Project to Nowhere, Seth McKelvey, November 17, 2011
• Libertarian-leaning Comedian Runs for Mayor of Miami Beach, Seth McKelvey, October 31, 2011
• Reason Writers Around Town: California Aims to Prevent Private Libraries, September 15, 2011
• Dispatches From the Food Truck Wars, Matt Welch, July 25, 2011
• Carmageddon: L.A.'s Biggest Nothing Since Tom Bradley, Tim Cavanaugh, July 16, 2011
• Frustrated States Banning Local Food Bans, Baylen Linnekin, July 1, 2011
• William Donald Schaefer's Real Legacy, Jesse Walker, May 17, 2011
• Good Enough for Government Work, Radley Balko, April 29, 2011
• "Temporary Weed Inspector" Wanted, Radley Balko, April 27, 2011
• Activists for the Poor vs. the Poor, Radley Balko, April 27, 2011
• Sunday Morning Nut-Punch, Radley Balko, April 17, 2011
• "Tea Party Extremism" vs. Major Party Everydayism, Matt Welch, March 17, 2011
• Miami Voters Fire Lousy Mayor, Matt Welch, March 16, 2011
• The Rasta Man vs. the State, Jesse Walker, March 15, 2011
• No Protection for Police Whistle Blowers, Ct'd..., Radley Balko, March 14, 2011
• Tennessee Cops Posed as a Defense Attorney To Get Suspect To Incriminate Himself, Radley Balko, March 8, 2011
• Bell, California, Police Memo Outlines Rules for Motorist Baseball, Radley Balko, March 1, 2011
• Mayor Orders Code Inspectors to Home of Blogger Critic, Radley Balko, March 1, 2011
• Short But Sweet, Radley Balko, February 24, 2011
• Wisconsin? Needs More Gaddafi., Radley Balko, February 23, 2011
• How Hard Is It To Fire a Police Officer?, Radley Balko, February 16, 2011
• Former Sen. Dick Swett Unavailable for Comment, Radley Balko, February 16, 2011
• Canadian City Reluctantly Agrees That It's Permissible To Celebrate Your Freedom on Your Own Property Without First Getting Government Approval, Radley Balko, February 15, 2011
• I Believe the Germans Have a Word for This, Radley Balko, February 11, 2011
• More Fights Over Red Light Cameras, Radley Balko, February 7, 2011
• Looks to Me Like You've Been Doing Some Unlicensed Figurin', Radley Balko, February 4, 2011
• The Biotech Park That Never Was, Jesse Walker, February 1, 2011
• Lose an L.A. County Job For Being No Good At It, Get Another County Job at Same $260,000 Salary, Brian Doherty, December 16, 2010
• Red Light Cameras Working as Intended: They're Making Money., Radley Balko, December 6, 2010
• Progressives for State-Sanctioned Corporate Monopoly, Radley Balko, November 9, 2010
• Reason.tv: The Legal Way to Rig an Election - Filmmaker Bill Mundell on Gerrymandering, October 29, 2010
• Reason.tv: The Big Government Conspiracy - Q&A with Steve Malanga, Jim Epstein, October 25, 2010
• Where's the Michigan Militia When You Need It?, Jesse Walker, October 14, 2010
• What's Wrong With This Picture?, Radley Balko, October 12, 2010
• California City Redevelopment Agencies: Waste, Abuse, What Else is New?, Brian Doherty, October 4, 2010
• Today in the Blogosphere..., Jesse Walker, September 8, 2010
• Repubs Like Outcome of Boxer-Fiorina Debate, Tim Cavanaugh, September 2, 2010
• In Bell, CA, Overpaid City Officials Become Overpaid Retirees, Robby Soave, July 23, 2010
• Volunteers Take Better Care of Detroit Than Elected Officials, Robby Soave, July 8, 2010
• California Election Primer, Matt Welch, June 8, 2010
• One Important Reason Why We Are Out of Money, Matt Welch, June 1, 2010
• How to Save Cleveland, Non-Reason Version: Force Parking Lot Operators to Provide Bike Racks, Spend Money on Public Showers, Nick Gillespie, May 17, 2010
• How States Fail (Fiscally), Brian Doherty, May 6, 2010
• City of Jacksonville Being Undone Not by Budget Woes But by Sweepstakes Games!, Nick Gillespie, May 4, 2010
• Reason Morning Links: Five Flavors of Disaster, Two Flavors of Politician, Jesse Walker, May 3, 2010
• I Know That Frisco's Expensive, But Jesus Christ!, Matt Welch, April 26, 2010
• Saturday Night Live's "Public Employee of the Year", Matt Welch, April 26, 2010
• Brown Water and Red Ink In the Yellowhammer State, Tim Cavanaugh, April 19, 2010
• The Colorado Springs Experiment, Jesse Walker, April 13, 2010
• More Scenes From the Class War, Matt Welch, April 7, 2010
• We Are Out of Money, L.A. Edition, Matt Welch, April 7, 2010
• "Unions have priced themselves out of a job", Matt Welch, April 2, 2010
• Why Cities (and States) Are Broke: They Spend Too Much. Or, Yet Still More on the Coming War on Public Sector Spending..., Nick Gillespie, March 29, 2010
• "Unanswered" Questions That Answer Themselves in the Very Next Line, Matt Welch, March 11, 2010
• Fed Funds for More State Worker Overtime in Massachusetts, Brian Doherty, March 5, 2010
• The Man Bites Dog-Owners, Matt Welch, February 24, 2010
• Even More on The Coming War Over Public-Sector Pensions, Nick Gillespie, February 21, 2010
• When You Lie Down With Fill-in-the-Blanks, You Wake Up With Fill-in-the-Blanks, Matt Welch, January 4, 2010
• D.C. to AT&T: All Your Unused Minutes Are Belong to Us, Radley Balko, January 3, 2010
• As Predicted, Irresponsible States Stay Irresponsible, Lobby for Stimulus II, Matt Welch, December 30, 2009
• The Following Blog Post is Dedicated to the People of San Francisco, Who May Not Know it But They Are Very Poorly Governed..., Brian Doherty, December 17, 2009
• Tuesday Morning Fun Link, Jesse Walker, December 1, 2009