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.
When the state won't shade you, buy a hat.
A good example of why so few stadium deals end up on the ballot.
A pilot proposal to levy civil fines based on income is being considered by the City Council.
Opposing sides of the debate around a New York City subway homicide have found unlikely common ground.
Politicians in the last century accused pinball of being mob activity.
Steven Hedrick rents out roll-off dumpsters to people and hauls them away after. A new city ordinance is mandating that people use county services instead.
Just days after the release of an autopsy showing an activist may not have fired on officers before being shot to death, police arrested activists for putting flyers on mailboxes.
A win for Geraldine Tyler, who is now 94 years old, would be a win for property rights.
It's one small victory for free speech and due process, but similar battles continue to play out elsewhere.
Geraldine Tyler's case is not unique; home equity theft is legal in Minnesota and 11 other states.
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If a municipality fails to approve or deny a permit by state-set deadlines, developers could hire private third parties to get the job done.
Arlington's successful passage of a modest missing middle housing reform bill after an intense debate raises the question of whether YIMBY politics can practically fix the problems it sets out to address.
Alvin Bragg's case against Donald Trump has put the once-obscure position of district attorney into the national spotlight.
A 9-year-old backed out of a deal to sell her pet goat for slaughter. Local officials and sheriff's deputies used the power of the state to force her to go through with it.
Handouts for tourist-trap museums will be part of the federal funding battleground in the next two years.
He did "what any dad would—he went to hug his crying kid," says former town councilman Keith Kaplan.
"If I disagreed or offered another opinion, I was told I had cognitive dissonance," Josh Diemert says.
Fairytale Farm Animal Sanctuary's work caring for abandoned and disabled animals is imperiled by a demand from the Winston-Salem city government that the nonprofit stop hosting on-site fundraisers and volunteer events.
Legislators will increasingly argue over how to spend a diminishing discretionary budget while overall spending simultaneously explodes.
Now a judge has cleared him of wrongdoing and struck down the rule used to justify the arrest.
"My intention is to ensure that all Americans from the wealthiest millionaire to the poorest homeless person can exercise these rights without fear of consequence from our government," said Jeff Gray.
Out of 19 suspects arrested on terrorism charges, at least nine are accused of nothing more serious than trespassing.
"Everybody should have an expectation that they can put a sign in their yard and speak on a certain topic," a lawyer for the couple said.
"The Town has routinely detained, cited, and forced Mr. Brunet to go to trial to vindicate his constitutional rights, taking the extraordinary step of adopting a boldly unconstitutional local Ordinance to silence him," the complaint reads.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear 94-year-old Geraldine Tyler's case challenging home equity theft.
Is it good public health policy to deny charity to people experiencing homelessness?
Multiple factors contribute to housing shortages, but zoning constraints are mostly to blame.
Living without government services isn't necessarily cheaper or easier, but it sure beats putting up with municipal bureaucracies.
"My opinion is no exceptions should be made," says the chief of the police.
