Jordan Stevens' application to legalize her Happy Goat Lucky Yoga business was denied by Hamilton County's Board of Zoning Appeals last month.
"The quality of life we have even during COVID is so much higher than anything humanity experienced, and it's only going to get better."
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Neither politician is willing to tolerate deviation from the one business policy he thinks is best.
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"You have showers where I can't wash my hair properly. It's a disaster!" said Trump in 2015.
Donald Trump legalized energy-hungry short-cycle dishwashers. The current administration is undoing that progress.
Upstart competitors can’t hope to match the resources required to compile a list of banned individuals and organizations.
Most Americans are not consuming excessive amounts of sodium.
If teenagers like an e-liquid flavor, the agency seems to think, adults should not be allowed to buy it.
The experience with the Texas Heartbeat Act offers a preview of what that means.
The White House is undoing changes to the National Environmental Policy Act that were supposed to speed up the delivery of infrastructure projects.
The failure of legal challenges obscures an ongoing scientific debate.
In much the same way that zoning laws are wielded by NIMBYs to block new development, Certificate-of-Need laws can be used to impose costly delays on building new medical facilities.
An extended symposium engaging with an important new book on the use and misuse of cost-benefit analysis in regulatory review.
The fines for failure fall not on the unvaccinated, but the people serving them.
"Do you really want to live in a country where government bureaucrats, based on whim and personal preference, can censor whatever they don't like?"
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Those much-maligned single-use plastics had a brief reprieve during the pandemic. Now they're back in politicians' sights.
How far do "emergency powers" really extend?
The agency seems inclined to ban the vaping products that former smokers overwhelmingly prefer because teenagers also like them.
The FTC challenged a licensing scheme that it says limited consumer choice and excluded new providers.
Although Raja Krishnamoorthi says "adults can do what they want," he is determined not to let them.
Though domestic crypto transactions were banned back in 2017, today's move signals that Chinese authorities are making good on their threats from earlier this year.
Innovation should be more important than regulation.
E-cigarette regulations and taxes threaten an industry that could prevent millions of premature deaths.
Both Los Angeles and San Francisco struggle with restrictive land use regulations that raise the costs and completion times of housing projects. That same red tape is now hobbling projects aimed at helping alleviate homelessness.
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A broad standard with no exceptions better serves his goals, but it will be harder to defend in court.
Old rules and odd enforcement are pushing opportunities overseas.
Meanwhile, the threat posed by the lawsuits that S.B. 8 authorizes has dramatically curtailed access to abortion in Texas.
The agency's decisions so far reflect a bias against the flavored e-liquids that former smokers overwhelmingly prefer.
Convenient online sports betting is legal and live in 14 states.
Congress can start by letting the U.S. Postal Service deliver booze to adults.
OSHA has rarely used this option, which avoids the usual rule-making process, and most challenges to such edicts have been successful.
Emergency OSHA rules are frequently struck down by courts.
Biden's sudden embrace of a federal vaccine requirement seems inconsistent with his acknowledgment that he cannot mandate every COVID-19 precaution he'd like people to follow.
If they're good enough for Europeans, surely they're good enough for Americans.
Because the Supreme Court so far has not intervened, post-heartbeat abortions are now illegal in the Lone Star State.
Labor unions have been lobbying federal regulators to mandate that all freight trains operate with two-person crews in the cab. But automation renders this largely pointless.
Getting a law passed is not the same thing as getting people to obey.
States like Alabama that give government regulators control over the number of hospital beds tend to have less of them. That's bad even when there isn't a pandemic.
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Remember, the "open internet" that regulatory rules purportedly preserve emerged from a world without net neutrality rules.
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Gov. Greg Abbott's position on private vaccination requirements is confused and confusing.
Hawaii Gov. David Ige issued an executive order yesterday imposing a raft of new restrictions on businesses and social gatherings.
Gov. Ron DeSantis' embrace of the law contradicts his avowed commitment to economic freedom.
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