Police Misbehavior Is a Crucial Threat to Liberty
Cops in Los Angeles killed a young girl in a department store dressing room by accident while firing at a suspect armed with nothing more than a bike lock.
Cops in Los Angeles killed a young girl in a department store dressing room by accident while firing at a suspect armed with nothing more than a bike lock.
Omicron patients were much less likely to have severe symptoms.
The Golden State's legalization of accessory dwelling units has produced a glut of new housing. New York area policymakers are trying to replicate the success.
The new taxes lawmakers are proposing to fund a universal health care system will likely drive even more Californians out of the state.
The plan will rely on giant tax hikes on businesses and Californians.
The lonely crusade against government hubris.
A new 2022 law will punish anybody “aiding and abetting” unlicensed dealers. It will most certainly harm low-level workers.
From California to Washington, D.C., new restrictions on gas-powered landscaping equipment are blanketing the nation.
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Distillers have been granted emergency regulatory relief—for now.
The pandemic has served as a nice reminder of the merits of federalism, where states are the laboratories of democracy that can try regulatory approaches that conform to local attitudes and conditions.
Breweries and wineries can still do it, though.
If only they would apply that lesson to other goods and services.
Financial pressure is the main reason why people say they move, and pandemic-era public policy created a lot more financial pressure in certain places.
Jurisdictions around the world are trying to address high housing costs by eliminating regulations on new housing construction.
California's leaders can take the recent rise in property crime seriously without repeating the same "tough on crime" mistakes of the past.
The state’s “reforms” have saddled merchants with oppressively expensive permitting demands.
Gavin Newsom is exploring legislation to authorize private civil actions against people who sell "assault weapons" or gun kits.
Nearly 90 years after the 21st Amendment ended America's failed experiment with banning alcohol, our leaders are still trying to tell us what to do.
Despite such magazines being widely and lawfully used, and with the ban having been tossed out by other courts and court panels, the 9th Circuit thinks the ban does not violate the Second 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.
California is leading the country in student vaccine mandates that will disproportionately harm the education of poor and minority students.
Perhaps Newsom doesn't want to do anything because the real solutions will anger his union and environmental allies.
The otherwise positive proposals are undermined by affordability requirements and density restrictions.
Undertreatment of pain is a real problem, and bona fide patients rarely become addicted to their medication.
The Golden State is terribly run, but that's not the main reason from my move. Most of life isn't about politics, thankfully.
The land was taken in 1924 in order to kick a black family out of Manhattan Beach, California.
Legalizing a market isn’t enough; you have to set the participants free.
But at least state lawmakers also passed some useful criminal justice bills and policing reforms.
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Newsom makes the smart move by preserving liberalized alcohol policies.
Newsom's opposition to a judge's order requiring vaccinations for prison staffers lays bare the hypocrisy of the governor.
One of two ballot measures already proposed for 2022 in California takes on some of the most powerful special interests in state politics.
A state court has apparently placed a cap on UC Berkeley enrollment increases due to inadequate environmental review.
A panel has unanimously determined the First Amendment isn’t violated if state regulations keep independent writers from landing work.
The government confiscated Bruce's Beach at racists' behest.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed S.B. 2 into law, despite some objections from police unions.
How far do "emergency powers" really extend?
San Diego becomes latest school district to require teen jabs. But is it good policy?
An academic field rife with hostility to private gun ownership now gets to know the address of every California owner of a weapon, a weapon part, or ammo.
Doubling down on stridently conservative messaging in a state where conservatives are a dwindling and fleeing minority doesn't seem like a winning strategy.
Media persists in pediatric scare stories even while the country's largest dataset shows tiny yet still-declining rates, including among the needlessly quarantined.
Both Los Angeles and San Francisco struggle with restrictive land use regulations that raise the costs and completion times of housing projects. That same red tape is now hobbling projects aimed at helping alleviate homelessness.