Florida's Department of Economic Opportunity is suing the city of Gainesville to block its legalization of small "missing middle" apartment buildings in single-family neighborhoods.
Lawmakers are reportedly planning to undo legislation that would have revoked Disney's special tax and governance status.
Eventually the player realizes nothing is getting built and quits.
Backyard chickens are slowly making headway, but not without tradeoffs.
Monique Owens shouted over critical speakers at a September city council meeting, claiming it was her "First Amendment right."
The ordinance governing how food can be shared is designed to make it next to impossible to share food.
Big cities like New York, Baltimore, and others use strict definitions of family to restrict housing.
A lack of transparency doesn't make politicians better people.
A new ordinance passed by the city's Board of Supervisors allows police to request live access to private security cameras even for misdemeanor violations.
A new ordinance in Franklin will restrict evening and weekend protests and subject violators to misdemeanor charges.
The police admitted wrongdoing, but Denver moved forward with a plan to reduce crowds and crimes downtown—by targeting food trucks that did nothing wrong.
When one police officer's racist text messages surfaced online earlier this month, local officials found that city law prevented the outright firing of the officers involved.
Perhaps, as we relearn the virtues of local decision-making, we'll also reacquire a taste for individualism.
Somerville still has costly regulations on the books even though New Jersey has legalized the sale of home-baked items.
The inconvenient truth behind all the COVID-19 relief fraud and waste is that these government programs never should have been designed as they were.
The federal bailout of state and local governments padded the paychecks of many public employees.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to end a wildly successful half-century experiment in municipal governance.
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.
