“Local control” sounds like a conservative principle. But it is not a conservative principle unless it protects liberty. And the groups fighting for the power of cities don’t seek to protect liberty. Typically, they fight for…
There is less than a 30% chance that a rape victim in most major Texas cities sees justice served. According to FBI clearance rate data collected from city police departments, the city of Austin only cleared about 27% of rape…
Shawn Fleetwood writes for the Federalist about efforts to root out bureaucratic waste in governments run by conservative elected officials. The general political consensus is that, because a state is run by Republicans, it’s…
Major tech companies have shared data from over 3.5 million user accounts with the U.S. government between late 2024 and early 2025, according to a report from digital privacy firm Proton.Proton’s report focuses on Apple,…
The Certificates of Obligation Act of 1971 allows certain governmental entities—like cities, counties, and select special districts—to go into debt without voter approval for the purpose of funding public projects, including …
Washington state's housing crisis is real. High home prices, limited supply, and families squeezed out of homeownership. But the legislature's response in Senate Bill 5496 (E2SSB 5496) is a misguided overreach that…
Government entities at every level fail to modernize critical information technology systems, then blame private contractors when projects collapse. This is not incompetence. It is a racket—a deliberate, systematic fleecing…
For most of American history, the United States – and Michigan – had no zoning at all. Detroit, Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor, and other major cities grew rapidly before municipal zoning codes existed. The most stringent forms of…
In 1996, former President Bill Clinton declared, “The era of big government is over.”Three decades later, the left has a different message. In his victory speech, NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani declared, “We will prove that…
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