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"The FDA's regulations related to animal testing no longer fully conform with applicable law," writes the Kentucky senator.
Bryn Green wants to start a sugaring business, but the state’s occupational licensing regime requires her to spend thousands on irrelevant training. Now she's suing.
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Los Angeles voters will decide in March whether to force hotels to report empty rooms to the city and accept vouchers from homeless people.
The Democrat-controlled Senate meanwhile is proposing to expand the program.
New York City no longer requires a permission slip to sell to the highest bidder.
Cities are asking for federal zoning-reform dollars to pay for plans that might never pass.
In the face of lawsuits and accusations of attempted "genocide," Green is restoring many homebuilding regulations he suspended in July.
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An emergency proclamation by Gov. Josh Green offers developers the opportunity to route around almost all regulations on building homes.
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S.B. 423 would prevent the state's powerful Coastal Commission from shooting down affordable housing projects that comply with local zoning laws.
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Sohrab Ahmari inadvertently gives even more reasons to reduce the power of the state.
On this one issue, the democratic socialist sounds a lot like a libertarian.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company cites regulatory costs and a lack of skilled workers as specific impediments. Biden and Congress can fix those without giving out billions of taxpayer dollars.
It's a familiar program. And it will result in higher prices, slower growth, and fewer jobs.
An examination of French firms associates labor regulations with lower innovation and consumer welfare.
The White House insists it doesn't want to ban gas stoves but still needs the power to do so.
The Fiscal Responsibility Act falls well short of solving America's permitting crisis.
A bill that would expand wine sales in the Empire State is meeting familiar resistance from entrenched interests.
The North Carolina–based biotech startup Pairwise will begin selling genetically modified and better-tasting mustard greens.
"The greatest thing that ever happened to me was to be born in a free country of modest means and to have opportunities," says the Nobel Prize–winning economist.
Other states would do well to enact similar reforms.
Excessive government interference in the market hurts consumers and thwarts policy goals. It also gets in the way of the government itself.
While the US Supreme Court continues to require judges to defer to administrative agencies' interpretations of law in many situations, numerous states have abolished or severely curbed such deference. The results should temper both hopes and fears associated with ending judicial deference to agencies.
The state will fast-track applicants who have out-of-state credentials or experience.
By legalizing homebrewing, Carter laid important groundwork for the entrepreneurs and investors who are the true heroes of the craft-brewing revolution.
A Netflix documentary series blames the SEC for missing the Ponzi scheme and then calls for giving the SEC more power.
Cannabis consumers should have the same commercial leisure spaces that alcohol drinkers do.
The airline will either clean up its act or go out of business. Meanwhile, the government plods along.
Ohio might be on the verge of making home distilling legal—but federal law will still prohibit it.
While not a cure-all, universal recognition reduces the costs and time commitments of mandated training.
While some Republicans may have had misguided motivations, a few disrupted McCarthy's campaign in order to enact fiscal restraint. Their colleagues were fine with business as usual.
Deregulated states may spend more on transmission, but that part of the market is still heavily regulated.
The mysteries of the mind are harder to unravel than psychiatrists pretend.
Reformers had two years of unprecedented victories—and then protectionists started using scare tactics to block them
Deregulation can help the millions of people who prefer flexible, independent jobs.
With the FORMULA Act soon to expire, the U.S. baby formula market is about to return to the conditions that left it so vulnerable to a shortage in the first place.
Fixing federal permitting rules and easing immigration policies would help companies like the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, which are interested in building more plants in America.
Alcohol-related ballot measures were in play in several states last week. The results were lukewarm.
From immigration to drug reform, there is plenty of potential for productive compromise.
The administration's draft regulations expand and complicate who the federal government considers an "employee."
Businesses are all in favor of competition, tax cuts, and deregulation only until they aren't—meaning only until subsidies might benefit them.
The West Virginia senator had proposed a series of exceedingly modest tweaks designed to speed up the yearslong environmental review process for new energy projects.
Government should not penalize investment, thwart competition, discourage innovation and work, or obstruct production.
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