When the city moved its parking cops from the police department to the transportation department, it forgot to renew their ability to issue tickets.
The change represents a substantial reversal of civil forfeiture reforms aimed at protecting innocent property owners.
Congress has radically restricted the number of pilots without doing anything to increase safety.
Federal regulations make it more likely that a driver can be suspended or fired for drug use, regardless of whether they ever drove unsafely.
Research on the effects of Oregon's loosening of its self-service gas ban finds that allowing adults to pump their own gas increases supply and lowers prices.
Civil liberties groups argue that debt-based license suspensions are unfair and illogical since they deprive people of transportation, preventing them from earning money to pay off debts.
Politicians overstate the situation, and to the extent there is a problem, it’s their doing.
The administration is encouraging counterproductive "inclusionary zoning" policies that often raise housing prices and reduce supply.
The bill would penalize companies for price gouging during times of war, public health emergencies, or natural disasters—which would have encompassed all of the last two years.
A plaintiff in the class-action lawsuit says he had to declare bankruptcy after Chicago dumped $20,000 of ticket debts on him.
The state's new rules on vulgar vanity plates could amount to unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination.
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In criticizing the move, the New York Post got basic economics wrong.
The decision against the rule hinged on whether the agency had the power it asserted.
"We should still have masks on the subway system. New York is unique. We are densely populated," said the mayor at a press conference today.
The White House is making it harder for people to request waivers from cost-increasing Buy America requirements in the $1.2 trillion infrastructure law.
The decision holds that the CDC exceeded its legal authority. But it may be vulnerable to reversal on appeal.
The city's army of 160 speed cameras issued a ticket every 11 seconds during 2021 and generated $89 million in revenue.
Ridership is dismally depressed and a federal mask mandate for straphangers remains stubbornly in place.
The lawsuit raises some of the same issues as earlier successful challenges against the CDC's eviction moratorium. But, in this case, the federal government has a stronger legal rationale for its policies.
Once again, Washington is giving us every reason to believe it's selling favors to cronies even if it means everyone else loses.
The same agency that brought us security theater continues to enforce a rule that never made sense.
Azael Sepulveda is suing the city of Pasadena, Texas over its requirement that his autobody shop add 23 parking spaces he insists he doesn't need and can't afford.
Taxpayers will pay the tab for spruced-up bridges and rebuilt freeways, doubling down on a worrying trend.
The unions' support for hygiene theater is of a piece with their support for security theater.
Police seized more than $100,000 in cash from a 25-year-old Chicago woman for not correctly describing what her suitcase looked like.
Delta CEO Ed Bastian asked U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to create a special no-fly list for passengers convicted of creating onboard disruptions.
Someone should tell Pete Buttigieg that local governments use speed cameras more for revenue than for safety.
While the fatality rate rose substantially in 2020, it remained essentially the same in 2021.
Pennsylvania has one of the nation's highest gas taxes, but those user fees haven't helped fix the state's poor roads and bridges.
Nearly half of the $1 billion in RAISE grants awarded by Biden's Department of Transportation have gone to non-transportation projects.
"A future of bloodless global discipline is a chilling thing."
Surveillance clearly shows children nearby as strike was called on man mistaken for a terrorist.
The bumbling TSA and performative mask requirements are ineffective air-travel hassles.
The Federal Transit Administration says St. Louis officials either need to get its Loop Trolley back up and running or return $37 million in federal funds.
Our drones still patrol the skies, and our tax dollars will be paying off the costs of failed nation-building for decades.
A new, heavily investigated report shows a Pentagon uninterested in correcting its deadly errors.
And some state politicians are talking about asset forfeiture reform.
A police dog's alert prompted the search, and the money was seized via civil asset forfeiture.
But those numbers don’t include Afghanistan, and that’s a problem.
There are better ways to build trust in the community than by violating the Fourth Amendment.
California, which offers some of the most generous pension benefits in the country to its public workers, apparently isn't paying them handsomely enough, the federal Department of Labor says.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' proposed gas tax holiday and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu's fare-free bus plan will both require taxpayers to subsidize infrastructure they don't use.
Why hasn't a collapse in rail transit service produced nightmarish levels of traffic congestion? Thank working from home and flexible work schedules.
The agency is far more of a threat than the dangers from which it supposedly protects us.
Virginia spends around $35,000 per mile of state-controlled road. In New Jersey, it's $1.1 million. Both states are about to get a lot more federal funding.
