San Francisco and Los Angeles insist in suit that likely tens of millions have been illegitimately squeezed from small businesses by ADA plaintiffs without proper legal standing.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu seems hellbent on making things difficult or impossible for city restaurants.
The punishment is a bit rich considering the government's own mishandling of pandemic cash.
Limited resources create enormous vulnerability.
The city's restrictions threaten one of the world's most vibrant music scenes.
Zoning officials concede Robert Balitierrez's drive-thru window isn't causing any problems. But they say it's a code violation and has to close anyway.
Though the American economy still looks bleak, there are silver linings.
Necessity became opportunity for many who started businesses.
Family-owned burrito chain El Farolito will have to change its branding or pick a new neighborhood to open up its 12th location if it wants to avoid being ensnared in the city's restrictions on "formula retail."
Business owners in the Bronx respond to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s vaccine passport mandate.
The same institution that's unable to run the Postal Service or Amtrak orchestrated our invasion and withdrawal of Afghanistan.
One of America's most isolated communities has struggled to weather the pandemic.
Officials would rather if everybody were masked than vaccinated.
Jigisha Modi can't hire her own mother-in-law—who has decades of eyebrow-threading experience—because of Kansas' occupational licensing rules. Now she's suing.
It would require our enormous government to become less gluttonous with the people's resources.
Corporations can afford robots. Their competitors often cannot.
The hasty work behind the PPP and other relief loans shows the limits of big government.
Plus: Georgia's voting roll purge draws media hype, Florida's drug law hypocrisy, and more...
Even a critic who doesn’t love singing or dancing succumbed to its charms.
The penalty for employing 18- to 20-year-olds to work nude, topless, or "in a sexually oriented commercial activity" is now 2 to 20 years in prison.
Iowa smoke shop owners say the tax would be "a ban without being an outright ban."
Like so many well-intentioned policies, it hurts the people it's supposed to help.
Do small businesses need another punch in the gut?
Fewer low wage businesses also means fewer job opportunities for low wage workers.
One complainer managed to shut down a popular local business.
Entrepreneurs discouraged by red tape even before COVID-19 need officials to leave them alone.
New York's unemployment rate is nearly 10 percent and roughly one-third of small businesses in New York City may have closed forever. Seems like a great time to make it more expensive to employ people, right?
The governor's latest order dials up restrictions on whole swaths of California's economy in an effort to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed.
The top Democrats originally supported a $2.2 trillion measure.
Restaurant owners speak out about the "crippling" order, which will last at least three weeks.
Job losses and business closures loom as more cities and states once again shut down their hospitality industries.
California's COVID-19 business closures have turned Ghost Golf into a shadow of its former self. Its owner is now suing the governor for the right to reopen.
Turns out some of the federal government's PPP loans ended up going to people who didn't need them quite as badly.
Prop H will make it easier for businesses to set up shop or readapt their space, all while preventing nosey neighbors from bringing everything to a halt.
A government survey finds that prepping for hard times can have wide benefits.
How local governments bully your favorite local shops and services.
The PPP hasn't worked as planned, and one cheery exception does not disprove the rule.
"I just wanted to help out my community and family," said Miguel Lozano.
In the face of the greatest challenge in generations, America's chefs, bartenders, and restaurant owners are reinventing their food, their businesses, and themselves.
Data from Yelp shows that the long-term economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic is only starting to be realized. And federal unemployment data shows layoffs are climbing again.
Even if it's true, taxpayers paid $58,000 for each saved job.
Making a living is a right, not a privilege, and should be respected as such.
The Small Business Administration will always fail the people it's meant to help.
Plus: Justin Amash's quick reversal, Ronan Farrow's flaws, and more...
Making businesses close early will not stop the spread of COVID-19.
In a nation of edicts, we serve at the pleasure of the king.
Gov. Greg Abbott made the change after a Dallas salon owner was jailed for reopening her salon.
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