Biden undid Trump-era rules for independent contractors, but the new rule will likely last only until another Republican is elected president. This is no way to regulate an economy.
California made carry permits easier to obtain but nearly impossible to use.
Plus: Fort Collins tries passing zoning reform for the third time, Coastal California cracks down on Airbnbs, and state lawmakers try to unban rent control.
The state's law, which a federal judge enjoined last month, prohibits firearms in most public places.
Gavin Newsom supported a ballot initiative to legalize recreational marijuana in California but rejected a social consumption measure.
More than 20 people died while in custody of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department last year.
After a federal judge deemed the state's location-specific gun bans unconstitutional, the 9th Circuit stayed his injunction.
The long-planned tunnel will bring water from the Sacramento River to the state's dry southern regions.
Pizza Hut announced plans to lay off 1,200 delivery drivers on Wednesday.
Two women reported attacks and threats from abusive ex-partners to the police. A lawsuit claimed they were ignored.
California is facing a projected deficit of $68 billion, a larger amount than the entire annual budget of the state of Florida.
The good news: Regulators have exercised unusual restraint.
An error-prone investigation in search of a fugitive led police to Amy Hadley's house.
Plus: Austin's newly passed zoning reforms could be in legal jeopardy, HUD releases its latest census of the homeless population, and a little-discussed Florida reform is spurring a wave of home construction.
He could save $98 million by dodging California's state income taxes with his unusual, eye-popping contract.
Plus: Segregationist Christmas parties, California cops, Israeli gun licenses, and more...
Blame lingering pandemic-era restrictions that make it harder for people to find a dog or cat they'd like to adopt.
Poker player Annie Duke says grit is overrated and walking away from bad choices is an underappreciated virtue.
Every dollar wasted on political pork, fraud, and poorly considered infrastructure makes the country’s fiscal situation even worse.
Some of the worst-performing elementary schools in California retrained teachers to teach reading with phonics. A new paper says the change worked.
On Thursday, a federal appeals court will hear about the FBI's "blatant scheme to circumvent" the Fourth Amendment.
The late Supreme Court justice eloquently defended property rights and state autonomy.
Plus: the U.S. Justice Department says zoning restrictions on a church's soup kitchen are likely illegal, more cities pass middle housing reforms, and California gears up for another rent control fight.
Plus: an unexpected digression into the world of Little Debbie dessert snack cakes.
Over 2 million Americans have moved to Florida since COVID began. Where did they come from?
By banning firearms from a long list of "sensitive places," the state is copying a policy that federal judges have repeatedly rejected.
Too bad that was only a small part of the 90-minute affair.
The regulation is part of a suite of new restrictions on hotels sought by the local hotel workers union.
Plus: Send your questions for the editors to roundtable@reason.com ahead of this week’s special webathon episode!
Higher prices created by a $20 minimum wage for burger joints will lead to fewer customers, reduced profits, fewer restaurants, and a loss of jobs.
Los Angeles voters will decide in March whether to force hotels to report empty rooms to the city and accept vouchers from homeless people.
Instead of looking like a future president, Newsom comes off as just another small man in a big office.
The appeals court is reviewing an injunction by a judge who concluded that the law is inconsistent with the Supreme Court's Second Amendment precedents.
State officials seem to delight in how much money they "invest" in different priorities, without worrying too much about outcomes.
The state housing officials who performed the audit describe San Francisco's approval process as a "notoriously complex and cumbersome" mess.
Over the last several years, they have worked nonstop to ease the tax burden of their high-income constituents.
He insists that he's not running for president, but his vetoes of the fringiest measures suggest otherwise.
Since departees tend to be high earners, their absence threatens to wreck the state's swollen budget.
The Golden State's new rules—which Pennsylvania's Environmental Quality Board opted to copy—will increase the cost of a new truck by about one-third.
A 2019 Reason investigation detailed a long string of police abuses in Vallejo. Things have only gotten worse since then.
Plus: Inflation issues, California's "Ebony Alerts," and campus macroaggressions...
Newsom vetoed both reforms, which he deemed excessively permissive.
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