These New York Agencies Benefit From Giving Away Taxpayer Money
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.
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.
The needless complexity of affordable housing programs are hurting people they're supposed to help.
Since Donald Trump's alleged falsification of business records happened after he was elected president, he clearly was not trying to ensure that outcome.
Plus: Zoning reform in Minnesota stalls, a New York housing "deal" does little for housing supply, and Colorado ends occupancy limits.
The leading possibilities are all problematic in one way or another.
Plus: Problems for Saudi Arabia's The Line, Hawaii considers a short-term rental crackdown, and when affordable housing mandates get you less affordable housing.
The state’s policies and practices seemed designed to strangle the legal cannabis supply.
Too many property owners are having trouble asserting their rights, but not everything is "squatter's rights."
New York's botched recreational marijuana rollout just keeps looking worse.
Thanks to "squatters' rights" laws, evicting a squatter can be so expensive and cumbersome that some people simply walk away from their homes.
Plus: New York refreshes rent control, AOC and Bernie Sanders call for more, greener public housing, and California's "builder's remedy" wins big in court.
Three years after the state legalized recreational marijuana, unauthorized weed shops outnumber licensed dispensaries by 23 to 1.
Peter Moskos, criminal justice professor and former Baltimore police officer, discusses ways to reform policing and turn failing cities around on the latest Just Asking Questions podcast.
State officials “jawboned” financial firms into cutting ties with the gun-rights group.
The defamation lawsuit is the latest in Trump's campaign of lawfare against media outlets, but all of those suits have failed so far.
A story about a young man who just wants to legally work, if only the system would let him.
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Neither Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg nor New York Attorney General Letitia James can explain exactly who was victimized by the dishonesty they cite.
Plus: A listener asks if the editors have criteria for what constitutes a good law.
Thomas agreed with the Court's decision to not take up two challenges to New York's rent stabilization law but said the constitutionality of rent control "is an important and pressing question."
The law that Attorney General Letitia James used to sue the former president does not require proof that anyone was injured by his financial dishonesty.
Despite brazenly lying on financial documents and inventing valuations seemingly out of thin air, Trump's lender did not testify that it would have valued his loans any differently.
The essence of the case, the Manhattan D.A. says, is that Trump "corrupt[ed] a presidential election" by concealing embarrassing information.
The credit "is at best a break-even proposition and more likely a net cost" for the state.
R. Anthony Rupp III was cited and detained after he called a police officer an "asshole" after the cop nearly drove into two pedestrians.
Plus: rent control behind financial problems at NYCB, public housing's corruption problem, and New York City's near-zero vacancy rate.
The freedom to protest is essential to the American project. It also does not give you carte blanche to violate other laws.
It's taxpayers who lose when politicians give gifts, grants, and loans to private companies.
"I have encountered many things," one witness told the grand jury, "but nothing that put fear into me like that."
The plan will help provide “university-sponsored visas that allow them to continue performing and commercializing research without leaving the state.”
Plus: Libertarian populism, library wars, Latin American soft power, and more...
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Plus: the Supreme Court weighs housing fees and homelessness, YIMBYs bet on smaller, more focused reforms, and a new paper finds legalizing more housing does in fact bring costs down.
Plus: Fort Collins tries passing zoning reform for the third time, Coastal California cracks down on Airbnbs, and state lawmakers try to unban rent control.
Plus: Adult activists, Fani Willis' love life, Catholic crackdown, and more...
The United Federation of Teachers argues that the near-5,000 page environmental report on New York's congestion pricing plan isn't thorough enough.
Plus: Inheritance taxes, lady gadgets, a stabbing in South Korea, and more...
The year's highlights in blame shifting.
The ACLU will represent the gun rights group in a case with widespread relevance for free speech.
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The court upheld several other location-specific gun bans, along with the state's "good moral character" requirement for a carry permit.
Plus: Austin and Salt Lake City pass very different "middle housing" reforms, Democrats in Congress want to ban hedge fund–owned rental housing, and a look at GOP presidential candidate's housing policy positions.