Sacramento Wants to Boost Rail Ridership By Banning Drive-Throughs and Gas Stations Near Transit
The logic of the policy is perplexing.
The logic of the policy is perplexing.
Good intentions can make for awful policies.
San Francisco is facing a housing crisis, but overturning current limits on rent-controlled apartments threaten to make the problem worse, not better.
Golden State gun owners may soon be an endangered species, and no one is talking about why.
But they swear the new regulations will actually save homeowners money.
A neighbor thought they were robbing the place.
Rahm Emanuel wants to do the thing that critics of drone surveillance fear most.
Even the nanniest of Nanny Staters are coming around.
How cowardly politicians avoid telling voters that they should pay more for the privilege of driving
Fontana called them "zoning fees." They were actually demanding that residents repay the cost of prosecuting them for minor crimes.
$2.4 billion of new gas tax revenue will go to light rail and electric bus networks.
If Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom wins in November, will he punish charters for their efforts?
Bans of flavored tobacco products end up leaving smokers with few options for kicking the habit, and do little to improve public health.
Given the pension funds' fiscal condition, it's hard to understand any serious opposition to these modest measures. But don't hold your breath.
SB 827 would have opened up swaths of California's cities to new construction. Now it's dead.
A bill in the California senate could legalize street vending across the state.
The therapists would be mandatory in middle and high schools.
A state senator wants to crack down on "economic crimes" in the state's underground economy.
Calculating comments come back to haunt Donny Youngblood as his re-election approaches.
A flawed law has nonetheless improved San Francisco's absurd building approval process.
If you want to avoid conflict among hostile groups, decentralize power-preferably to individuals.
Rental-car companies are facing the same challenges as other established businesses in the internet age. One state lawmaker wants to protect them from change.
But California regulations will let people sue your coffee roasting business into oblivion.
Law enforcement is already resisting.
SB 827 is a progressive-backed mix of climate change goals and tenant protections. It is also a major free market reform.
This is not how you rebuild those community ties.
"The situation in the market is pretty dire," one major cannabis seller told us.
Lawmakers have tried to counter the powerful law enforcement lobby and failed.
Proposal to verify online "bots" is security theater that will make it harder for small online firms to compete with the likes of Facebook.
California unions and their allied politicians need to learn to respect the rights of California's government workers.
An ICE spokesman resigning because he "didn't feel like fabricating the truth" should be a wake-up call about the White House's factually untethered approach to immigration policy.
Immigration, federalism, and the 10th Amendment
The Justice Department wants to block three laws that it says hamper immigration enforcement.
The current regime makes it hard for licensed cannabusinesses to compete with the black market.
Policymakers need to focus more on harsh realities if they want real solutions.
"Time is truly of the essence here," said a lawyer for women imprisoned at Santa Rita Jail.
Proposed water restrictions will do little to solve the state's water woes.
In California's Santa Rita Jail, pregnant inmates were pressured to have abortions, forced to go without food, and made to live in unsanitary conditions, a new lawsuit alleges.
California's gun registration program is a mess.
A municipal scheme with a private prosecution firm leads to outrageous fines in the California desert.
Josephine, in the Bay Area, linked aspiring food entrepreneurs with hungry neighbors.