L.A. Plans To Scrap Its Genuinely Good Outdoor Dining Program and Replace It With Rules, Fees, and Paperwork
The L.A. City Council saw a good thing happening and decided government wasn't involved enough.
The L.A. City Council saw a good thing happening and decided government wasn't involved enough.
Floridians will bear the cost of DeSantis currying favor with immigration restrictionists.
The Richmond City Council unanimously approved a resolution to study applying tougher zoning restrictions to new shops as a way of cutting down on crime.
Fintech platforms facilitated fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program, according to a new congressional report.
A million hypotheticals bloom in arguments over when and where the government may compel speech.
The G Word, a new documentary, only occasionally covers serious issues. But it opts not to do honest reporting.
The governor made these claims on Monday while also putting a February 2023 end date on the state's emergency public health order.
A new report takes an illustrative look inside the Small Business Administration, which was clearly overwhelmed by the obligation to push unprecedented piles of money out the door quickly.
Many conservatives no longer appear to care much for fiscal conservatism.
A new state law prohibits localities from prohibiting or licensing "no-impact" home-based businesses. That's allowing a Des Moines couple to sell guns from their house located just across the street from the governor's mansion.
Atlanta, Sioux Center, and too many other cities and towns are still treating food trucks like second-class businesses.
Many states allowed restaurants to sell to-go cocktails during COVID-19. Research shows that change is not linked to an increase in drunk driving deaths.
There is seldom any meaningful accountability for government incompetence.
The state’s unemployment rate is well above average, yet there’s a ballot initiative hoping to push the minimum wage to $18 an hour.
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.
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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.
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