After spending late summer in a picturesque town in the Pacific Northwest, I’m eager to get home to California and enjoy the sunshine and warm weather. But it’s not just the climate that I miss. There’s something fabulous about our varied scenery. The drive past Mount Shasta and into the Central Valley always stirs my […]
The California Legislature is rounding out its session by giving final approval to two bills that eliminate regulatory constraints on building housing on church lands and in cities falling behind on their state-set housing production goals. On Monday, the state Senate gave final approval to S.B. 4, requiring local governments to approve affordable housing projects […]
Democracy is under threat, we’re told, and it’s hard to shake the impression that the greatest danger is posed by democratically elected officials who refuse to accept limits on their power. New Mexico’s Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham isn’t the first officeholder to decide that the normal give and take of debate and legislation is too […]
A Minnesota woman has resuscitated her effort to sue a police officer who jailed her as a teenager for two years on false charges associated with a sham sex trafficking investigation that the FBI once billed as its largest human trafficking crackdown. The case is another example of the legal labyrinth victims are required to […]
Colorado has a popular Democratic governor, Jared Polis. He’s a rare Democrat who says, “I’m for more freedom and lower taxes.” But is he really? At least he’s willing to come to Stossel TV to debate. Refreshingly, Polis supports charter schools. He even founded two. Unfortunately, his state’s school choice program only applies to government […]
One of the more entertaining aspects of the state’s battle to open up housing development to reduce California’s housing shortage is the degree to which it has united officials in liberal coastal cities with those in conservative ones. Although Left and Right typically use different rhetoric to evade new housing bills, they are strangely aligned in […]
COVID-19 cases are up. Hospitalizations climbed 24 percent last week. But the media make everything seem scarier than it is. The headline “Up 24 Percent!” comes after dramatic lows. Hospitalizations are still less than half what they were when President Joe Biden said, “The pandemic is over.” Yet the shallow media keep pounding away: “It […]
In this week’s The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch and Katherine Mangu-Ward welcome special guests Eric Boehm and Zach Weissmueller for a post-mortem examination of the first Republican presidential primary debate last week and to discuss reactions to former President Donald Trump’s mug shot. 0:42: First Republican presidential primary debate 23:08: Donald Trump’s interview with […]
Starting September 5, many nurses moving to Pennsylvania will be able to bypass the state’s time-intensive licensing process, a change with enormous benefits not just for those nurses but for patients. Created by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) is a standardized system through which a nurse licensed […]
What may become the most famous mug shot in history is slated to be taken tonight. You’d be forgiven for forgetting why such images are taken in the first place. That amnesia might be particularly pronounced after the last 24 hours, as a slew of defendants in the Georgia indictment related to allegations that former […]