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Could that end up costing more lives than it saves?
A new lawsuit from two YIMBY groups argues that the state failed to incorporate a jobs-housing balance when calculating the number of new homes the San Francisco Bay Area has to plan for.
There's a silver lining to partisan demagogues taking up peaceful entrepreneurship.
California grocers have filed three lawsuits against local laws requiring "hero pay" during the pandemic.
By the state’s own estimates, a two-month lockdown was less effective than a slow day of vaccinations.
When a metal monolith was discovered in the desert, all federal officials could see was a zoning violation.
The president has proposed spending $1.9 trillion on another pandemic relief bill. Moderate GOP senators are countering with a $600 billion plan of their own.
A Democratic White House and a Republican Senate might be the best of all worlds when it comes to federal housing policy.
The governor's order had banned outdoor dining and forbade Californians from socializing with members outside their household.
The lawsuit from three Orange County preservation groups argues that supposedly historic buildings should be afforded the same environmental protections as "air, water, and forests."
Biden's willingness to extend a nationwide eviction moratorium, while declining to mandate masks nationwide, demonstrates a worrying inconsistency in his views on presidential powers.
Trump did more than any recent president to pare back regulatory red tape, but the incoming Biden administration is eager to add more.
Eviction bans were enacted as an emergency public health measure. They’re quickly becoming a permanent policy.
Garden State lawmakers have unanimously passed two bills now allowing restaurants to keep their outdoor operations running so long as their indoor dining rooms are restricted.
But these lawmakers think they should be.
Yesterday's events at the Capitol building should be understood as a colossal law enforcement failure.
The president's weak pleading has done little to mollify demonstrators currently storming the Capitol.
Pence had been presiding over the tally of Electoral College votes before rioters broke into the Capitol Building, forcing him to flee.
A growing number of states are enshrining eviction moratoriums into laws that won't expire until well into next year.
Concord's ban on smoking and vaping in private apartments allows residents to take civil action against their neighbors for violating the policy.
Progressives want to spend an additional $435 billion to help people who've lost neither jobs nor income weather the pandemic.
"It truly is a disgrace," said Trump.
Congress' extension of a federal ban on evictions does little to address the legal problems with the policy.
New York quickly reversed its ludicrous bathroom ban following backlash from the hospitality industry and anyone with a little common sense.
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The new law layers more bureaucratic requirements on a hospitality industry trying to bounce back from its worst year on record.
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While these laws are intended to save children's lives in the event of an accident, Nickerson and Solomon argue that the effect on birthrates is much bigger.
The strange alliance proves once again that the one thing politicians can agree on is spending taxpayers' money.
Reason's writers and editors share their suggestions for what you should be buying your friends and family this year.
A tentative decision from Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant is yet another rebuke of officials trying to reimpose March-style lockdowns on a skeptical public.
Policymakers "must not penalize residents for earning a livelihood, safeguarding their mental health, or enjoying our most cherished freedoms," said Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes.
COVID-19 is reigniting old debates about zoning, public health, urban planning, and suburban sprawl.
The governor's latest order dials up restrictions on whole swaths of California's economy in an effort to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed.
Violators face fines of up to $1,000.
D.C.'s public transit agency has already received close to $1 billion in federal coronavirus relief funds.
The mayor is traveling to Mississippi to spend the holiday with his wife and daughter.
Little gray men encounter reams of red tape.
The president-elect's forthcoming nomination of Antony Blinken as the country's top diplomat suggests an appetite for continuing America's role as the globe's policeman.
The New York governor is getting a shiny award for playing a good governor on TV.
More spending doesn't necessarily mean better results.
Job losses and business closures loom as more cities and states once again shut down their hospitality industries.
A bill under consideration by the city's Board of Supervisors would ban smoking in private dwellings located in apartment buildings with three or more units.
Deutsche Bank has proposed a 5 percent income tax on people working from home, the revenue from which could be spent supplementing the lost wages of service workers.
The Secretary of State places himself among the ranks of Republican officials willing to humor, but not quite endorse, Trump's claims that he in fact won the election.
