California has failed to protect private property from squatters. Desperate owners are turning to katana-wielding enforcers to reclaim their homes.
Bar owners warn that the proposed smoking ban could force closures, threaten jobs, and damage San Francisco’s nightlife.
Plus: the damage done by inclusionary zoning, total YIMBY victory at California gubernatorial forum, and Trump's reversion of build-to-rent
Plus: AOC attacks billionaires, Trump heads into Xi talks weakened by the Iran conflict, and redistricting battles escalate nationwide
The state’s attempt to overhaul its antiquated 911 system resulted in delays and lost calls.
The commission has tormented property owners and localities ever since it was created in 1976. Finally, legislative and legal efforts are undoing some of its abuses.
An initiative that would streamline California's development-killing environmental review law appears to be headed to the ballot.
How heavy-handed state regulations led to one farmer suing the state for $3 million in damages
The restrictions are often framed as a crime prevention measure. But the fine print points to a different motivation: adding union jobs.
After California made this same mistake in 1999, it took 12 years to dig out of the hole. Taxpayers footed the bill.
The term “hate speech” gets thrown around a lot, but it’s legally protected in the U.S.
Mere proposals can change the risk calculus for business and investors. Politicians, and the public, should be wary.
The owners of the house that Marilyn Monroe died in claim in a lawsuit that the city took their property when it landmarked it.
Author Brian Barth explores the makeshift tent cities of Silicon Valley.
Plus: California fails to unmask ICE agents, the illogic of medical-only marijuana rescheduling, driverless cars in D.C., and more...
The State Department and ICE claimed to have caught Islamic Republic nepo babies “enjoying a lavish lifestyle.” Instead, they tore apart an innocent family.
California politicians’ policy choices are making the state unaffordable and unattractive.
Instead of confronting the problems with the state's heavily regulated insurance market, lawmakers are looking for a scapegoat.
The city has created a network of nearly 500 cameras that routinely monitor innocent people as they go about their daily lives.
Seems weird no one reported on the numerous sexual misconduct allegations in 2020.
The Justice Department is permanently blocked from prosecuting Californians who fail to register when the state no longer requires it.
While many of the states that are growing are currently seen as safe red territory, today's Republican-voting states could be tomorrow's swing states.
Plus: Iranian negotiations fail, the U.S. blockades Iranian ports, the president picks a fight with the pope, and more...
Tech companies that create social media apps should not be blamed for the complex mental issues of everyone who might use them.
The 18-year-old college freshman had to have his right eye surgically removed after a federal agent allegedly shot him in the head with a less-lethal weapon.
"For the first time since California came into the union," the publisher and businessman says, "they're having out-migration."
Two petitions ask the Supreme Court to uphold the remedy required by the Fifth Amendment.
Rep. Jimmy Panetta says Democrats have "learned the hard way" that handing over so much tariff authority to the executive branch is a bad idea.
Increasing income taxes almost always results in less revenue and less economic activity.
Comedian Adam Carolla discusses how soft journalism destroys media credibility, why California is losing residents, and the importance of meritocracy.
Accused of rape and sexual abuse, the late labor organizer's UFW mercilessly bilked its members and taxpayers for years.
California initiatives will fuel an already fiery November election, and the state's top-two primary might end up excluding Democrats in the governor's race.
The state's funding crisis is driven by a third-party payment system in which roughly 90 cents of every American health care dollar is paid by someone other than the patient.
Plus: Mullin vs. Paul, the metaverse lives, the Pentagon wants $200 for the war in Iran, and more...
The problem is not that the government collects too little. It's that the government spends too much.
"If Californians approve this measure in November, they may discover too late that the wealth they hoped to tax has already left the state—with jobs and economic opportunities not far behind."
A transfer tax on high-value real estate transactions is reducing the number of homes on the market and limiting new construction.
Plus: the same ole hawkish lies, a familial connection to Barry Goldwater's nomination, and the future of media is prediction markets on Substack.
The newspaper’s plan to address marijuana abuse would compound the disadvantages that state-licensed suppliers face in competing with the black market.
All of San Francisco's public schools were shut down Monday thanks to the United Educators strike.
Across advanced economies, they have repeatedly been narrowed or even repealed after delivering disappointing revenue, tax avoidance, capital flight, and costly administrative battles.
“We’re standing up not just for ourselves, but for the principle that government must respect property rights.”
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