New York Will Charge Drivers $15 To Enter Lower Manhattan
The new tolls are part of a congestion pricing scheme that's been years in the making.
The new tolls are part of a congestion pricing scheme that's been years in the making.
Lawmakers should consider a user-fee system designed to charge drivers by the mile.
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.
Only 536 people live in this Ohio town that issues 1,800 speeding tickets per month.
When everyone owns something, no one does.
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The regulation is part of a suite of new restrictions on hotels sought by the local hotel workers union.
We're often told European countries are better off thanks to big-government policies. So why is the U.S. beating France in many important ways?
Flagstaff keeps digging a hole over commercial free speech.
Students in four Oklahoma school districts are also required to wear their school ID on a lanyard and sit on their own team's side.
"I believe in empowering the individual and limited government. I chose to become a Libertarian on my registration because it spoke to who I was."
The folly of government-run grocery stores is sadly not a historical relic like the USSR.
"Ironically, the actions of the police department have only proven my point," Noah Petersen said after being handcuffed, arrested, and jailed for his speech.
Well over half of those funds remain unspent, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.
Despite their popularity, food trucks at the National Mall are paying a hefty price to operate.
Officials say that the "Dream Streetcar" is intended to boost ridership, even though the streetcar is free.
But will it solve the team's attendance woes? Probably not.
The people who could benefit from new housing stock aren't on this map—they're exiled to unincorporated areas.
A Chicago sandwich shop's survival depends on cutting through red tape.
The city wanted to bring in more money, in part for early childhood education. But such taxes are disproportionately paid by the poor.
St. Paul police officer Heather Weyker has thus far managed to get immunity for upending Hamdi Mohamud's life.
Among the indicted are a Southern Poverty Law Center attorney acting as a legal observer and three people who run a bail fund.
X-Dumpsters owner Steven Hedrick rents roll-away dumpsters to people, but now his city forces residents to contract with the county.
Geoffrey Swenson’s book Contending Orders tackles Afghanistan and Timor-Leste.
Can Caroline, New York, resist the imposition of its first-ever zoning code?
The Houston-area Aldine Independent School District is considering the use of eminent domain to seize a one-acre property owned and occupied by Travis Upchurch.
Apparently $600 million to improve a very nice stadium isn’t enough.
The 2013 bankruptcy filing didn't make the city more prosperous, more functional, or less corrupt.
Journalism is an activity shielded by the First Amendment, not a special class or profession.
Fault lines emerge as government gets involved in America's weirdest, fastest-growing sport.
State and local governments are moving forward with bans on gas stoves in new residences.
Rent control is getting a rhetorical makeover from progressive policy makers.
That's more than $21,000 per foot. And the tab doesn't include operating costs, which taxpayers will also heavily subsidize.
Massachusetts reformed its notoriously bad public records laws in 2020, but reporters are still fighting to get the police misconduct files they're legally entitled to.
The answer's more complicated than you might think.
The City of Edinburgh Council ordered a woman to repaint her door or face fines up to 20,000 pounds.
Often, it can be exactly the opposite.
The paper's editorial board is happy to endorse the centralization of decision making when it supports their liberal policy preferences.
Publicly funded leagues of cities are fighting zoning reforms in state capitals across the country.
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