FDA Plunges Ahead With Menthol Prohibition
The Food and Drug Administration is plowing ahead with a proposal to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes. The agency says its goal is to “significantly reduce disease and death”…
NYC Puts Limits on Qualified Immunity
It’s a rare day when New York City does something that advances accountability and civil liberties, but the city council there did both when it approved a measure limited qualified…
New York Pols and Unions Want Tax on Online Purchases to Support Transit System
A New York Assemblyman is proposing a $3 tax on items residents order online, and using the revenue to prop-up New York City’s creaking mass transit system. In a New…
Cuomo to NYC Restaurant and Bar Owners: Drop Dead
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo continues to find new ways to alienate the little guy, this time threatening to close outdoor dining at…
New York City Erects Checkpoints to Warn Travelers to Self-Quarantine or Face $10,000 fines
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. New York City has established checkpoints and begun stopping non-residents to warn them they must self-quarantine for 14 days of facing fines of…
De Blasio Mobilizes NYC Regulators and Law Enforcement to go After…Fireworks
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio has turned his attention from welding shut the gates to city playgrounds to confronting that other great…
NYC Welds Playground Gates Shut
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. New York City Mayor (and one-time Democratic presidential candidate) Bill DeBlasio’s ongoing feud with the city’s Hassidic community got even more heated, as…
State and Local Governments use Threats of Fines, Arrest, Lost Licenses to Bolster Containment Orders
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. Some state and local governments have decided to use scarce law enforcement resources to enforce social distancing. According to news reports, Chicago Mayor…
NYC Will Fine you $250,000 for Using Term ‘Illegal Alien’
Article from Reason by Robby Soave. Last week, New York City’s Commission on Human Rights declared that using the term “illegal alien” pejoratively to describe an undocumented person violates laws designed to…
New York City’s Minimum Wage Hike Goes Exactly How You’d Expect
Article from Town Hall by Timothy Meads. This story is a tale as old as time. Or well, it’s at least as old as the Fight for $15 movement, which…