Role of Government

Lawmakers in New York just passed a bill to ban certain bitcoin mining operations that run on carbon-based power sources.

The U.S. government promised Native tribes in the Pacific Northwest that they could keep fishing as they’d always done. But instead of preserving wild salmon, it propped up a failing system of hatcheries. Now, that system is falling apart.

New Zealand will help pay for lower-income families to scrap their old gas guzzlers and replace them with cleaner hybrid or electric cars.

PPP was roughly equivalent in size to the entire recovery package from the 2007–2009 financial crisis.

Metro Detroit food trucks got a boost from Detroit's city council on Tuesday that allows them to expand into other Detroit neighborhoods.

The bill will let dealerships be open for less than 30 hours a week for up to four weeks a year. They were previously required to be open for 30 hours a week year-round.

California's new law does not outlaw boys and girls sections, but large stores must now add "a reasonable selection" of gender-neutral products.

Editor’s note: What follows is a lightly edited version of a North Korean defector’s true story, which was originally a presentation at the AAS Committee on Teaching about Asia workshop for educators at George Washington University in March 2018. The author requested that her name not be published. I am a North Korean defector currently […]

First they impose restrictions, then a moratorium

The mayor wants to be rid of short-term rentals, including through Airbnb and Vrbo. Owners of second homes in the tourist town say their property rights are at stake.

The legislation would give a big boost to unionized shops. Nonunion automakers aren't happy.

The cards were never formally approved by Muskegon city commissioners, though the city manager said he got the blessing of four commissioners.

The collapse of a local furniture chain helped prompt an effort by a lawmaker to make Michigan only the second state to guarantee severance to workers who lose their jobs when their employer scales down or closes its doors altogether.

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has completed a 100-day review of supply chains and will form a task force to address the bottlenecks in the semiconductor, construction, transportation and agriculture sectors.Administration officials said their goal is to increase domestic…

Two Michigan bills that could change the way cities approach short-term home rentals have created intense debate around who gets to determine how to regulate these dwellings, more popularly known as Airbnb or vacation rentals.The issue has put interested groups such as the Ann Arbor-based Michigan…

Civil Rights leaders point to historic criminalization of drug and alcohol bans

With a strong push from taxpayers, Southwest Airlines is the first major U.S. airline to report a profit since the pandemic started, and airlines executives say that the industry is on course to recover from a financial crisis caused by the pandemic. Southwest Chairman and CEO Gary Kelly said Thursday that his airline has seen steady improvement in U.S. leisure-travel sales since mid-February. He credited rising vaccinations and falling new cases of COVID-19. “We believe the worst is now finally behind us," Kelly said.

While Saugatuck's pilot lasts, people can order to-go drinks and consume them while strolling downtown Saugatuck or sitting in a public park.

Norwegian Cruise Line wants to start US cruises again on July 4, and it's willing to require all passengers and staff to be vaccinated before it sets sail.

American manufacturing continues to pour on the momentum as the first quarter draws to a close — despite supply-chain woes and surging materials costs that are driving the inflation debate.Freshly released March data show an increasing number of factory purchasing managers are reporting…

Despite heavy opposition from physicians, the Michigan House passed a bill that would give independence practice rights to certified registered nurse anesthetists.The House approved House Bill 4359, the Access to Safe Anesthesia Act, in a 82-25 vote on Wednesday. Support for the CRNAs included the…

An underreported fallout from seemingly interminable government COVID rent moratoriums and rental assistance programs is the impact that more than a year of "bad" rental debt is going to have down the road for both landlords AND tenants. Ironically, contrary to what has been reported, rent…

The emerging response to a catastrophe that caused one of the worst outages in U.S. history is not the usual one in Texas: demands for more regulation

Louis DeJoy testified about shortfalls at the U.S. Postal Service. Despite calls for his resignation, DeJoy said he plans to follow through on an overhaul plan. "Get used to me," he said.

Paul Krugman writes that the crisis in Texas proves that deregulation of such life-and-death commodities as electricity are not a good candidate for deregulation.

Never before in the NHL’s history has a tail so wagged the dog.

The state's Pure Michigan program subsidizes a tourism industry by running expensive advertisements out of state in order to lure tourists to Michigan. Research shows the program is expensive and ineffective. It's also unfair and may be undermining attempts to control the COVID-19 pandemic. The…