Few things are more difficult to eradicate in our system of modern governance than a government-sanctioned monopoly or oligopoly. A recently passed bill in Tennessee, which will allow…
Read more Tennessee alcohol wholesalers are grabbing control of the state’s hemp marketCrews install portraits of state capitol buildings ahead of the National Conference of State Legislatures annual summit on Aug. 4 in Boston. NCSL has asked the Trump administration…
Read more State lawmakers ask Trump administration to end its review of state regsThe state of Florida has asked the federal government to reimburse it for the costs of its “Alligator Alcatraz” immigrant detention camp, despite a recent appeals court ruling…
Read more Florida applies for federal reimbursement for ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ costs despite court warningThe federal government owns about a third of America. Since we’re on a path to bankruptcy, it would be smart to sell some unused property. President Donald Trump’s…
Read more The feds own half the western U.S.—and can’t take care of itMinnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz announced on Tuesday plans to hold a special legislative session to introduce new statewide gun control measures, including a ban on “assault weapons.”…
Read more Walz’s gun plan wouldn’t stop shootings, but it might shred civil libertiesIn the fall of 2024, I predicted that America might be on the brink of having its “raw milk moment” given now Secretary of Health and Human Services…
Read more Raw milk debates are turning sour in FloridaSome parents abuse their kids. Child welfare workers are supposed to stop that to protect the kids. But bad things often happen while they watch. “Children have a…
Read more Should we take more kids from their homes or fewer?In an aerial view, the remains of the Francis Scott Key Bridge are seen as salvage crews continue to work to clean up the wreckage after the bridge…
Read more $2 billion Baltimore bridge rebuild is test case for new national debate over infrastructure spendingMayors in cities across the U.S. want to loosen rules that can slow the pace of office-to-residential conversions. In some instances, cities have offered generous tax abatements to…
Read more East Coast mayors call for more office-to-apartment conversionsShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email Some U.S. mayors are loosening up rules that determine how developers convert office buildings into…
Read more Here’s what’s stopping cities from converting offices into apartmentsFederal prosecutors told a judge Monday that a life prison sentence would be justified for the leader of a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, saying his…
Read more Prosecutors in Whitmer kidnap plot say life sentence fitsSALT LAKE CITY — Ludovic Michaud was driving around the scenic red rock landscapes of Utah’s Arches National Park on a windy spring day in 2020 when something…
Read more Trial begins over death of Ugandan woman killed in Utah parkLEESBURG, Va. — A special grand jury convened at the direction of Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has issued a scathing report against a northern Virginia school system accusing…
Read more Report blasts Virginia schools’ handling of sex assaultsSecretary of Defense Lloyd Austin introduces the B-21 Raider stealth at Northrop Grumman Friday, Dec. 2, 2022, in Palmdale, Calif. America’s newest nuclear stealth bomber made its debut…
Read more Keep COVID military vaccine mandate, defense chief saysDENVER — More than a year before police say Anderson Lee Aldrich killed five people and wounded 17 others at a gay night club in Colorado Springs, Aldrich…
Read more EXPLAINER: What do we know about the Colorado bomb threat?When the closely watched Georgia Senate race went to a runoff, nonprofit organizations that educate voters strained to ramp up operations again after Election Day. “It’s not just,…
Read more Nonprofits strain to support voters in Georgia Senate raceHONOLULU — Prayer. Bombs. Walls. Over the decades, people have tried all of them to stanch the flow of lava from Hawaii’s volcanoes as it lumbered toward roads,…
Read more Prayers? Bombs? Hawaii history shows stopping lava not easySACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s Department of Justice mistakenly posted the names, addresses and birthdays of nearly 200,000 gun owners on the internet because officials didn’t follow policies or…
Read more Report: California gun data breach was unintentionalCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — In a crowded brewery, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis embraced Richard Fierro, the veteran hailed as a hero after tackling a shooter who killed five…
Read more Colorado governor visits shooting site as community healsDETROIT — The Michigan Supreme Court on Tuesday postponed the January trial for the parents of the teenager who killed four students at his high school, a victory…
Read more Oxford school shooting trial delayed by appeal by parents
