The First Amendment Right To 'Greenmail' Developers
Plus: The Montana Supreme Court rescues zoning reform, and a new challenge to inclusionary zoning.
Plus: The Montana Supreme Court rescues zoning reform, and a new challenge to inclusionary zoning.
At least eight states have already enacted age-verification laws, and several more are considering bills.
Plus: An interview with Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte, Minnesota lawmakers try to save Minneapolis zoning reform from excess environmental review, and the White House's new housing supply action plan.
Plus: The man who would build an ADU, the zoning theory of child care, and tiny home red tape in Hawaii.
The decision likens the federal law to Reconstruction era restrictions on firearms near polling places.
Plus: More local "missing middle" reforms pass in Maine and Virginia, Colorado court blesses crackdown on student housing, and Florida tries to escape its slow growth past.
The ban, scheduled to take effect on January 1, is likely unconstitutional in multiple ways, the judge held.
The law makes it a felony to possess a firearm within 1,000 feet of a school, which covers the sidewalk in front of Gabriel Metcalf's house.
Meanwhile, big, partisan "everything bagel" zoning reform bills that tried to squeeze through the entire YIMBY agenda floundered.
Publicly funded leagues of cities are fighting zoning reforms in state capitals across the country.
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Montana's sweeping new zoning reform is both good in itself and a potential model for cross-ideological cooperation on this issue elsewhere.
This week's Republican revolt against Kevin McCarthy is actually a rank-and-file revolt against the top-down process that both parties have used to control the House in recent years.
Voters in California, Michigan, and Vermont embraced constitutional amendments to protect abortion rights, while Kentuckians rejected an anti-abortion amendment.
Media elites ignore the heartland-themed show, and the real issues behind it, at their own peril.
Cops thought Hoang Vinh Pham, who received a 15-year prison sentence, was suspicious because he stared at a police van full of marijuana.
Dispatching a state trooper to a hospital seems a bit excessive.
Two states have passed laws requiring court approval before the cops can use genetic genealogy services to track down a suspect.
Oklahoma, Alabama, and Montana are the latest states to deregulate homemade food sales.
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If left unamended, the bill could have crushed much of the nascent industry.
Now 14 states have legislation explicitly protecting free speech on campus.
The ballot initiative allows recreational consumers to grow their own or buy cannabis from state-licensed stores.
And in a three-way race for governor in Indiana, Libertarian Donald Rainwater gets more than 13 percent and wins more than 20 counties.
Two states are voting to permit medical marijuana. Four are voting for legalization.
The debate over flavored vapes really is a debate about whether adult smokers will still have access to products that could save their lives.
Making businesses close early will not stop the spread of COVID-19.
Kendra Espinoza's daughters rely on a state-supported scholarship program to attend the school of their choice.
Bills introduced in Montana, Florida, and Washington would either ban or restrict plastic straws.
Montana L.P. candidate Rick Breckenridge says he was misinterpreted by a reporter.
Republicans are comparing the band to Kathy Griffin.
And restricts how long data can be held.
Inconsistent federal agency policies end in denial of access to water.
Two lawsuits and action in Congress indicate wasteful, unconstitutional mandates may be on their way out.
A man who faced federal distribution charges argued the state's possession prosecution was double jeopardy.
Greg Gianforte joins a pantheon of violent politicians who don't want to answer questions from journalists
New bills in Montana and California would make it easier for small food entrepreneurs to thrive and for consumers to have more choices.
The anti-Trump Republican would like to bring his anti-spending, pro-Fourth Amendment philosophy to Congress.
The ruling strengthens civil asset forfeiture reform laws passed last year by the legislature.
With pot on the ballot in nine states, support for allowing recreational use is strongest in California, while Florida looks likeliest to permit medical use.
Longtime activist and "godfather of third-party politics" had run in every Montana election for 20 years
Some states bar people from harvesting dead animals. But Montana has gotten good results from lifting its ban.