Washington, D.C., Banned Bird E-Scooters: 'Arbitrary and Capricious,' Says Company
The company scored 445 points on the city's checklist—one fewer point than a company that did receive a permit.
The company scored 445 points on the city's checklist—one fewer point than a company that did receive a permit.
Congress' end-of-the-year omnibus bill was delayed by arguments over where to build the new facility.
Lighter regulation is one likely explanation.
A minimum wage increase passed in Nebraska and appears to have done the same in Nevada. In D.C., tipped workers will get a possibly unwelcome increase as well.
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The G Word, a new documentary, only occasionally covers serious issues. But it opts not to do honest reporting.
"There's a new special interest group in town: parents."
Even if credentialed teachers help kids learn more, it’s not worth making D.C. day cares prohibitively expensive and pushing experienced teachers out of jobs.
The CDC and FDA, when confronted with scarce vaccine supply, refuse to learn from their COVID-19 mistakes.
It would signal that the transportation future involves decentralization and rapid change rather than Washington-style command-and-control.
Climate protesters who blocked an interstate outside D.C. likely cost a man his parole.
In his new book, James Kirchick focuses on homosexuals' relationship with national politics during a time when gays were banned from working for the federal government.
New bills passed earlier this week require landlords to give tenants 180 days' notice before raising rents and pay relocation expenses to low-income tenants who move in response to rent hikes.
Officials would rather if everybody were masked than vaccinated.
Do we really need the state to step in over an unfortunate tragedy?
Legislators cannot have it both ways.
A new antitrust suit targets third-party seller agreements.
More than 5,000 members of the National Guard descended on Washington, D.C., following the January 6 riot.
Condemns “violence, lawlessness, and mayhem” by his supporters at the Capitol.
“This is banana republic crap we’re watching happen right now.”
D.C.'s public transit agency has already received close to $1 billion in federal coronavirus relief funds.
Voters came out for legalizing marijuana, removing criminal penalties for psychedelic use, and treating drug addiction as a public health concern.
The ballot measure applies to noncommercial production, distribution, and possession of "entheogenic plants and fungi."
The reformers who canvassed for signatures for the initiative say they're optimistic it will pass despite objections from Congress, which controls D.C. spending.
A new lawsuit argues that the city and state's eviction bans are an unconstitutional impairment of contracts unrelated to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Why do progressives who worry about unequal justice support policies that are bound to make that problem worse?
Armed agents of the state shouldn't be enforcing mask mandates.
The Decriminalize Nature D.C. initiative has gathered enough signatures to land on the ballot this November.
The House voted to recognize the District of Columbia as a state, but many obstacles still lie ahead.
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Police unions exist to protect cops at the expense of the public.
A heavy but hands-off militarized police presence squared off with demonstrators in the nation's capital tonight.
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Tonight's anti-police protests in the nation's capital saw fewer incidents of fires and vandalism, but also a heavy dose of aggressive police tactics.
They still were a lot better-behaved than officers elsewhere.
If there's a silver lining for the bars and restaurants that have been hit by the COVID-19 lockdowns, it's the widespread loosening of liquor laws.
Staying inside forever and going back to normal today aren't the only choices.
A civil rights lawsuit alleges that the government violated Kathy Hay's constitutional rights when it shuttered her free pantry.
Lawyers, inmates' families, and correctional officers worry the jail is ill-prepared to handle an outbreak.
Councilmember Charles Allen has proposed giving every D.C. resident a $100 monthly subsidy for bus and train rides.
A recent Inspector General's report found the agency had serious problems tracking and managing its inventory.
D.C. cops appear to have a thing for illegally probing butts.
The officer was suspended for only six days.