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Recent Articles

In Los Angeles County, the housing type amounted for 37 percent of all new housing units certified for occupancy in 2025. All in all, the total number of ADUs permitted in California increased by 15,334 percent between 2016 and 2022.
A consistent federal framework could make it significantly easier for technology companies to scale their products and operate efficiently across the country.
The Cato Institute shows that the rich pay the vast majority of federal taxes. The bottom 50 percent of taxpayers, by contrast, account for just 3 percent of federal income tax revenue.
That goal may sound reasonable on paper. In practice, CEQA has increasingly become a tool for obstructing housing development, exacerbating California’s housing shortage and keeping costs stubbornly high.
We allow people to eat sugary foods despite the adverse health effects. The same respect for individual choice should extend to other risky behaviors.
A family pulled their daughter from a school that shut them out. When an Arkansas amendment threatened that choice, parents kept it off the ballot.
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