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View More NewsHappy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. In keeping with the hot, sunny weather afflicting the D.C. region this week, this week’s newsletter focuses on a few sunny cases of housing reform making their way onto the books. That includes: Developers’ rush to make use of California’s new law allowing apartments near transit stops North Carolina’s sweeping abolition of minimum parking requirements across most of the state The final enactment of the federal housing bill It’s been two weeks since the California law allowing apartments near transit stops across most of the state went into effect, and…
from the taking-my-ball-and-going-home dept Paramount is now threatening California regulators that they’ll be taking their ball and going home (to Texas? Israel?) after California and 11 other states filed an antitrust lawsuit against the company’s unpopular $111 billion merger with Warner Brothers. Paramount leaked word of the nonexistent move to Semafor, which dutifully parroted the empty threat: “Ellison’s confidantes have pushed him to consider moving its corporate headquarters and reallocating much of its $30 billion in planned spending outside the state if California Attorney General Rob Bonta were to sue to stop the merger, according to people familiar with the…
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Four years ago, a colleague asked me whether I could chair a debate with some guy called ‘Gary Stevenson’, who was, apparently, an anti-inequality campaigner and a YouTube commentator of some description. I had never heard of Stevenson, but accepted. The debate went all right, even though it was mostly a case of talking past each other (which, given that I was the moderator, was probably my fault). It was otherwise not especially memorable. Britain does not exactly have a shortage of left-wing media figures and activists. In the first half of the 2010s, there was the campaign for a…
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from the it’s-all-corrupt dept Well, well, well. Last month we noted that Judge Kathleen Williams had agreed to reopen the incredibly sketchy case where…
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Gnosis is working to contain an exploit Monday affecting its Gnosis Pay product after co-founder Martin Köppelmann acknowledged an active hack involving the system’s…
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Today the Supreme Court summarily reversed an Eleventh Circuit capital case, Whitton v. Dixon. Justice Thomas dissented, joined for the most part by Justice Alito.…
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