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.
In practice, these programs have empowered local governments to use eminent domain to seize property to redistribute to developers.
The Institute for Justice has launched a project to reform land use regulation.
A bill backed by the Conference of Mayors would let courts issue restraining orders when people “harass” officials with information requests.
One man’s overgrown yard became a six-year struggle against overzealous code enforcement.
A report from Good Jobs First found that 80 percent of state development agency revenue comes from fees: The more tax money they give out, the more they get to keep.
Angela Prichard was murdered after Bellevue police officers repeatedly refused to enforce a restraining order against her abusive husband.
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."
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."
State governments have until the end of 2026 to spend the cash, even though Congress ended the COVID-19 emergency declaration last year.
Officials claim the policy is intended to prevent people from smuggling in contraband, but it allows shipments from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
The local prosecuting attorney in Sunflower, Mississippi, is seeking to take away Nakala Murry's three children.
A proposed ordinance would empower people to sue supermarkets that close without giving the city six months' advance notice.
Jackson County, Missouri, voted not to extend a sales tax that would have benefited the Chiefs and the Royals.
Jackson County, Missouri, residents should not be billed for the undertakings of private businesses.
Two class-action lawsuits say Michigan counties take cuts of the exorbitant costs of inmate phone calls while children go months without seeing their parents in person.
All too often, admission is only open to students whose families can afford a home inside the districts’ boundaries or pay transfer student tuition.
Efforts to revamp the tourist hot spot ignore the reality for local business owners.
An AP survey found that most states have no mechanism to appeal denials of records requests, outside of filing a lawsuit.
Kristy Kay Money and Rolf Jacob Sraubhaar are now suing the city of San Marcos, Texas, saying they're being forced to keep a Klan-linked symbol on the front of their house is a physical taking.
The Beehive State joins a growing wave of defiance aimed at Washington, D.C.
Salina, Kansas, restaurant owner Steve Howard argues in a new lawsuit that the city's sign regulations violate the First Amendment.
"Nobody's ever reported that to me," Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey said after his deputies admitted to brutalizing innocent people.
The judge found that Food Not Bombs' activity was clearly expressive conduct under the First Amendment.
The Supreme Court supposedly put an end to “home equity theft” last year. But some state and local governments have found a loophole.
Smokestack-chasing is out. A diversified economy based on environmental protection is in. But will it work?
It was integrated, it was unionized—and it was a company town.
The bill, which has thankfully been withdrawn, was an unnecessary state intrusion into Coloradans' lives.
The surveillance yielded 49 arrests, of which 42 were for possession or sale of narcotics.
"Why isn't there a toilet here? I just don't get it. Nobody does," one resident told The New York Times last week. "It's yet another example of the city that can't."
Kids were jailed for minor offenses, as detailed in The Kids of Rutherford County podcast.
It's taxpayers who lose when politicians give gifts, grants, and loans to private companies.
According to a report from Good Jobs First, St. Louis' public schools took the brunt of the loss at nearly 65 percent of the total.
Johnny Jackson had just had surgery for his prostate cancer when three officers arrested him with "brutal force" over his expired vehicle registration.
Peter and Annica Quakenbush are suing Brooks Township for the right to operate an environmentally friendly cemetery.
L.A., Portland, and other cities are spending millions to house homeless people in outdoor "safe sleeping" sites.
Blame local government parking minimums for the overabundance of parking in the U.S.
The clients get a confusing maze and a lot of incentives to stay on welfare.
Republican senators say the change is "mind-bending and deeply concerning."
The colorful, mostly libertarian history of Key West.
Motorists complain about long lines at charging stations as civil servants queue up in city-owned electric vehicles.
