A revision to the municipal code made it illegal for groups of four or more people to convene in public spaces for commercial recreational activities without a government stamp of approval.
It isn't about stopping crime—it's about protecting a favored constituency's jobs.
In practice, these programs have empowered local governments to use eminent domain to seize property to redistribute to developers.
Why do environmentalist ideologues oppose research on a possible emergency backup system to cool the climate?
The Institute for Justice has launched a project to reform land use regulation.
California has just 72 percent of the assets needed to make payments to retired public workers, many of whom get to collect six-figure annual payments.
Nominated stories include journalism on messy nutrition research, pickleball, government theft, homelessness, and more.
School officials falsely accused the boys of posing for a photo in blackface.
The areas where you need FAA approval to fly a model plane or drone are surprisingly large.
Proposed AI legislation would enshrine tech-killing precautionary principle into law.
Why work extra hard when you won't be able to get an A? Why try to improve when you won't get worse than a C?
No technology exists today to enable railroads to comply with the state's diktat, which villainizes a mode of transportation that is actually quite energy efficient.
Victor Manuel Martinez Wario was jailed for a total of five days, spending three of those in special housing for sex offenders.
Plus: California's landmark law ending single-family-only zoning is struck down, Austin, Texas, moves forward with minimum lot size reform, and the pro-natalist case for pedestrian infrastructure.
A newly-obtained intelligence memo shows that the feds took a keen interest in Trump-era campus speech controversies.
Instead of trusting parents to manage their families, lawmakers from both parties prefer to empower the Nanny State.
Which is bad news for anyone hoping to rent a place to live.
The university has a history of suppressing speech from both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Plus: Time to ax NPR's funding, African migrants get mad at New York City, Gavin Newsom gets smart, and more...
San Francisco's prohibitionists worried that opium dens were patronized by "young men and women of respectable parentage" as well as "the vicious and the depraved."
In 2021, the Associated Press uncovered rampant sexual abuse at FCI Dublin. After three years of failing to fix the problem, the Bureau of Prisons is shutting it down.
San Francisco's prohibitionists worried that opium dens were patronized by "young men and women of respectable parentage" as well as "the vicious and the depraved."
A similar law in California had disastrous consequences.
A proposed ordinance would empower people to sue supermarkets that close without giving the city six months' advance notice.
Bruce Frankel was tased by a police officer in 2022 after his fiancee called 911 seeking medical help. Now he's suing.
Instead, the White House is pushing for similar job-killing regulations on the national level.
Concerns about public safety will eventually recede, but Big Brother will still be watching.
Plus: Evil tech bros want to teach kids math, Utah and Texas tackle DEI, Trump loves Sinéad, and more...
The entrepreneur, who founded the Cicero Institute to fix government and the University of Austin to fix higher education, wanted space to flourish.
Plus: The White House's rent controls, San Francisco's bad-to-worse turn on housing, and the latest unintended consequence of eviction moratoriums
Giving the state control over insurance rates turned pricing into a Byzantine regulatory process.
Hiking wages through law is a crowd-pleaser, but it kills employment unless you’re a robot.
Plus: New York refreshes rent control, AOC and Bernie Sanders call for more, greener public housing, and California's "builder's remedy" wins big in court.
Plus: A listener asks about Republicans and Democrats monopolizing political power in the United States.
A change that promised to be a moderating influence on politics has instead made campaigns more vicious than ever.
The whole project was supposed to cost $33 billion when it was initially proposed.
The judicially approved Brookline ban reflects a broader trend among progressives who should know better.
The project might determine whether new generations will be able to take part in the American Dream.
In California, which has a slew of renewable energy regulations, the cost of electricity increased three times faster than in the rest of the U.S.—and the state still doesn't even get reliable energy.
Charlie Lynch’s ordeal is a vivid reminder of a senseless prohibition policy that persists thanks to political inertia.
Plus: More reactions to the Supreme Court's other decision in the Trump ballot disqualification case, D.C.'s continued minimum wage confusion, California's primary elections, and more...
Gov. Gavin Newsom's response to allegations of favoritism only serve to underline how the entire fast food minimum wage law was a giveaway to his buddies.
A federal judge ruled that three men who committed nonviolent felonies decades ago are entitled to buy, own, and possess guns.
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