Petoskey's draft ordinance would require both "legitimate" fortunetellers and people pretending to tell fortunes to be licensed, calling into question the sense of licensing at all.
Tawanda Hall's house was worth $286,000 more than her overdue tax bill. There was nothing she could do about it.
The state has 1,288 independent special districts. But we aren't hearing significant GOP complaints about anyone's but Disney's.
There is some confusion over what the response should be, but there is broad agreement that the officer acted inappropriately.
A town attorney threatened a local activist with a frivolous lawsuit so she would stop criticizing him. She complied, and he sued her anyway.
In Georgia, the difference between delta-8 and delta-9 THC is the difference between legal and illegal, but police are threatening store owners over both.
Curfews and alcohol rollbacks meant to mitigate danger actually hurt local businesses.
A Pennsylvania township's board of supervisors is refusing to seat elected auditors.
The same institution that's unable to run the Postal Service or Amtrak orchestrated our invasion and withdrawal of Afghanistan.
As it turns out, state and local tax revenues hardly collapsed.
If politicians want lower housing prices, they need to let people build more housing.
Government officials who wield land grabs to pick economic winners and losers now want to use them to kill disfavored businesses.
Revived federalism is a start, but it doesn’t go far enough.
Angelo Quinto's family has filed a wrongful death claim.
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Let people join with the like-minded to reject officials and laws that don’t suit them and to construct systems that do.
Michael Morrison used to be a boxer. Now he brawls with zoning boards and tax collectors.
Mask mandates are dangerous and unjust, regardless of which level of government imposes them.
Post-pandemic deregulation will be more complicated than it looks.
St. Louis tattlers discover their complaints about open businesses are public records.
A civil rights lawsuit alleges that the government violated Kathy Hay's constitutional rights when it shuttered her free pantry.
California lawmakers have introduced legislation to cap impact fees, change the way they are assessed, and give developers more tools to claw back unjustified charges.
Fairfax County, Virginia, allows home businesses but prohibits them from keeping inventory on site.
Three decades later, is it time for the city simulation game to get political?
The Hamilton County Attorney's Office later admitted that its policies conflict with the state's public records law.
A massive 15 foot tall Trump/Pence yard sign has unfortunately turned political.
The legislation would allow duplexes on any residential plot in the state.
Ridgetop no longer has any police officers after recordings captured city officials demanding that the department write 210 citations a month.
Jim Ficken was fined $29,000 for violations of his town's tall grass ordinance.
A judge has ruled that the town's Confederate monuments must stay.
Governing puts together a database of cities and towns addicted to money from fines and forfeitures.
The idea has some flaws, but would be a major improvement over the status quo. It also has much in common with a proposal for state-issued visas promoted by two Republican members of Congress in 2017.
Florida man may lose home because he didn’t cut his grass.
Local governments can't outlaw home vegetable gardens under a new Florida law.
A local development study didn't evaluate whether government incentives had anything to do with a business's decision to invest.
It will be called the "Missouri Task Force Task Force."
Initiative 300 takes aim at the city's incredibly broad anti-camping ordinance
The feds aren't the only ones capable of designing cringe-worthy mascots.
Most California cities already ban recreational cannabis stores. A few want to ban home deliveries as well.
Arlington County's free-speech-trampling sign code forbids businesses from depicting the goods they sell on exterior murals.
The market seems to be sending towns and cities a powerful message that there is no need to recycle all the things all the time.
A new Reason Foundation report finds cities in Texas and Florida have the highest degrees of economic freedom.
Government has repaid acts of service with exorbitant fines and misdemeanor charges.
Burn victim. Demon. Half-brother to The Undertaker. Knox County Mayor.
Developer claims politicians blocked their project to favor a crony who helps the politicians.