California's Floods Another Reminder of Failed Water Management Policies
In drought or flood, bad environmental policy is making Californians miserable.
In drought or flood, bad environmental policy is making Californians miserable.
Justice Department regulations threaten people with prosecution for failing to register even when their state no longer requires it.
The city has not granted a single permit since the Supreme Court upheld the right to bear arms last June.
Is it good public health policy to deny charity to people experiencing homelessness?
The issue is the result of a districtwide policy of de facto grade inflation.
California's economy is growing despite Gov. Gavin Newsom's policies, not because of them.
"She never spoke a word to me after this," the staffer, Sasha Georgiades, tells Reason.
Landlords say that nearly three years of eviction moratoriums is forcing some property owners out of the rental business entirely.
S.B. 58, which emulates an initiative that Colorado voters approved last month, would legalize the use of five psychoactive substances found in fungi and plants.
A Government Accountability Office report last year documented hundreds of ICE actions involving potential U.S. citizens.
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If all Californians bought E.V.s tomorrow, it would be a nightmare.
Golden State lawmakers have refused to fix the California Environmental Quality Act. Now it could cost them a brand new office building.
The city of Vallejo, California, has paid millions in recent years to settle excessive force lawsuits against its heavy-handed police force.
S.B. 4 would let religious institutions and nonprofit colleges skip the typical environmental review and red tape when building low-income housing on their property.
"You have this looming power over you that essentially can end your career," says Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya.
Until next year's, because capitalism is always making things better.
The state is threatening to punish doctors whose advice deviates from the "scientific consensus."
Nashville is the latest city to eliminate minimum parking requirements while simultaneously capping how much parking developers are now allowed to build.
"Engineers are really good at making things better, but they can't make them better than the laws of physics permit."
By making e-cigarettes less appealing, it will discourage smokers from switching to a much less hazardous nicotine habit.
Two chapters of the organization say the law violates the First Amendment.
Lighter regulation is one likely explanation.
People with money on the line try harder than pundits to be right, and they adjust quickly when they've made a mistake.
Apocalyptic attack ads about crime failed to drive a red wave, and criminal justice reform candidates were still successful in several local races around the country.
Voters in California, Michigan, and Vermont embraced constitutional amendments to protect abortion rights, while Kentuckians rejected an anti-abortion amendment.
Bring on the black market.
Republican Governors Ron DeSantis and Brian Kemp made a name for themselves opposing COVID mandates.
California police seized more than $17,000 from Vera and Apollonia Ward and accused them of laundering drug money, all without charging them with a crime. The two sisters were trying to start a dog-breeding business.
It's about protecting adults from themselves, which should be none of the government’s business.
The law authorizes regulators to discipline physicians who deviate from the "contemporary scientific consensus."
Voters in Orange County, Florida, and Pasadena, California, will vote on ballot initiatives that cap rent increases at, or below, inflation.
Many politicians who want to ban gas-powered vehicles appear to misunderstand the science.
California's governor is following Carter's disastrous energy policies at a time when the state's residents are suffering from already high prices.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill in September that will chip away at a policy that has long been criticized as enabling racially-motivated policing.
Voters have shown a propensity to veto the meddlesome efforts of lawmakers in the past.
Local officials argue that the eye-popping sum is necessary due to rising construction costs, but experts disagree.
Hundred Acre's lawsuit alleges heavy-handed and extralegal enforcement by county environmental regulators.
Having a city council secretly dominated by people with racist views is troubling, but having an entire political system controlled by one special interest group is also scandalous.
Carry permit applicants would have to prove they are not dangerous, and guns would be banned from myriad locations.
The Golden State promises a progressive, environmentally conscious, labor-friendly war on weed.
The governor made these claims on Monday while also putting a February 2023 end date on the state's emergency public health order.
Democrats are in favor of reducing the power of government over property owners, while Republicans want bureaucrats to rule.
The New York Times newsroom illustrates what happens when you listen to the New York Times editorial board.
A lack of transparency doesn't make politicians better people.