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Here are the picks for this week: Can the city of Savannah fine or jail people for leaving guns in unlocked cars? A judge weighs in | AP News Mayor’s Order Stops Enforcement of Illegal Commercial Use of Residences | CAPITOL HILL CORNER How much do Utah book bans cost taxpayers? It turns out, thousands ( sltrib.com ) Florida Supreme Court takes up DeSantis abortion 'interference' case ( tallahassee.com ) Clarkston attorney: New state law on arrests may burden DeKalb cities – D

Montana becomes eighth state with ballot measure seeking to protect abortion rights | AP News Council passes subsidized housing tenant’s rights resolution • St Pete Catalyst Israel Boycott Ballot Question To Be Withdrawn - USA Herald New Orleans is waging a war on the poor and small businesses | The Latest | Gambit Weekly | nola.com Next Billion-Dollar Startups: This Kinder, Gentler Bill Collector Is Helping People Keep The Lights On ( forbes.com ) NRA-ILA | AG Paxton Directs

We'll be taking a two week break for some R&R before the fall rush starts. Here are the picks for the week. Back soon. Play Streets for Kids Are Magic—For Adults - The Atlantic Residents Can’t Challenge City Traffic Fine And Jailing Practice ( bloomberglaw.com ) Memphis gun control referendum may draw fire from state ( msn.com )   Will Courts Continue to Favor State Control Over Home Rule?  | State Court Report   Hochul Is Using Public Money to Defend Cuomo | The Nation   Ch

We're please to share this announcement from Robert Williams, the dean of State Constitutional Law: State Constitutions & The Limits of Criminal Punishments Click here to register! October 24, 2024 8:30 am – 6:15 pm Rutgers Camden Campus Center – Multipurpose Room This symposium will engage with the growing legal and intellectual movement to challenge excessive criminal punishments—broadly understood to include both prison terms and conditions of confinement—via the anti-puni

You can pan for gold at Wall Drug in South Dakota. Locals need it as a pharmacy, too : NPR Inside the two-year fight to bring charges against school librarians in Granbury, Texas ( yahoo.com ) Meet the Man in Charge of Reopening Baltimore's Port ( governing.com )   California Cities Rethink Homelessness Tactics After Supreme Court Ruling - Bloomberg Minnesota prepares for influx of patients from Iowa as abortion ban takes effect | AP News How Americans Get Local Political New

Here are the picks for this week. Just a typical sleepy summer week, right? Many high-ranking Detroit officials don’t live in city, analysis shows ( freep.com ) Empty Storefronts? Let Entrepreneurs Make Things There. ( governing.com ) Record Climate Disasters Are Putting FEMA Aid to US Cities at Risk - Bloomberg Cash program for moms and babies expected to expand across Michigan ( bridgedetroit.com ) New power plant will stop sewage from spilling into city streets. But neighb

Opinion | Why Are Housing Costs So High? The Elevator Can Explain Why. - The New York Times ( nytimes.com ) A Remarkable Comeback - The New York Times ( nytimes.com ) Voters in Several States Can Cut — or Abolish — Property Taxes This Fall ( governing.com ) The Elle is D.C.’s first completed office-to-housing conversion project - The Washington Post   Utah’s Highest Court Safeguards the People’s Right to Direct Democracy | Bolts ( boltsmag.org )   A Trump Ally Is Training 75

Here are the picks for the week.   Vending machines selling bullets at grocery stores - cleveland.com Kansas’ top court strikes down 2 anti-abortion laws, reaffirms previous stance on state constitution | PBS News Rural Republicans Pushing Back Against School Voucher Expansions — ProPublica   Commuting to New York City from New Jersey Is Harder and More Expensive - Bloomberg 7,300 Migrants to Get Food Debit Cards as New York City Expands Program - The New York Times ( nytimes

SCOTUS end of term opinion releases may claim the attention of most, but lots of other stuff is happening at the same time. Here's a sampler. We'd welcome your takes on the Grant's Pass case, Loper Bright and local governments, or other end-of-Term commentary on topics state and local. Supreme Court rules cities can ban homeless people from sleeping outdoors – Sotomayor dissent summarizes opinion as ‘stay awake or be arrested’ ( theconversation.com ) Missoula Passes Homeless

To successfully unlock FEMA funding for extreme heat emergencies, states and localities need to start tracking the true costs of responding

Here are the picks for the week. And if you are feeling the heat, we also will have a feature this week on FEMA and heat emergencies. Stick with us. ‘Too many old people’: A rural town reckons with population loss - The Washington Post San Francisco fire stations prone to flooding, millions over budget ( sfstandard.com ) New study highlights stark racial wealth gap in the New Orleans area | The Latest | Gambit Weekly | nola.com American Bankruptcy Law Already Undercuts Accoun

Texas court continues ban on Harris County guaranteed income ( chron.com ) Indicted Gibson Co. Sheriff directed $1.4M to company he owned through inmate labor scheme • Tennessee Lookout ‘It’s unbearable’: in ever-hotter US cities, air conditioning is no longer enough | Extreme heat | The Guardian Phoenix Is a Vision of America’s Future - The Atlantic More than 225,000 Mass. students attend substandard segregated schools, new report finds ( bostonglobe.com ) New Urbanism Fans

There is a lot going on, but for some of us, at least, New York Governor Kathy Hochul's sudden about-face on congestion pricing in New York City is big news. If anybody out there wants to opine for the blog, give us a holler. Wild stuff. N.Y. Lawmakers End Session Without Replacing Congestion Pricing Revenue - The New York Times ( nytimes.com ) Spokane tiptoeing around state preemption on local firearm regulations | Washington | thecentersquare.com   Summerfield NC Staff Resi

We hope everyone had a meaningful Memorial Day weekend. Is something going on in Foley Square New York City? There is an aura of tension.... Indiana Court Rules Tacos Are Sandwiches, Highlighting Zoning Code Absurdities ( reason.com ) Uvalde Settles With Victims’ Families Over School Shooting - The New York Times ( nytimes.com ) Minnesota Bill to Ban Book Bans On Governor's Desk ( bookriot.com ) Fisherman’s Wharf businesses call new lawsuit 'absurd' ( sfstandard.com ) Chicago

llegal Votes Trigger Re-Do in Houston Judicial Election ( bloomberglaw.com )   After Houston police chief retired amid scandal over dropped cases   ( nbcnews.com )   Houston area led nation in issuing building permits for housing in 2023 | Kinder Institute for Urban Research | Rice University   Business titans privately urged NYC mayor to use police on Columbia protesters, chats show - The Washington Post Do Children Have a “Right to Hug” Their Parents? | The New Yorker St. L

A Highway Split Their Community. Efforts to Fix That Face Opposition. - The New York Times ( nytimes.com ) A decade after water crisis, Flint residents still haven't been paid ( freep.com ) The city made him hide his boat — so he had it painted on his fence - The Washington Post   Colorado Lawmakers Pass First-in-Nation Mandate for Voting Centers in Jails | Bolts ( boltsmag.org ) SFUSD budget crisis: State tells district to admit ‘there's a problem’ ( sfstandard.com ) New Mar

Americans give federal, state, local governments lower marks than in past years | Pew Research Center California law that ended single-family zoning struck down for 5 cities - Los Angeles Times ( latimes.com ) Ohio pastor says new charges coming over homelessness ministry – Deseret News Iowa law cuts local governments out of guaranteed income programs ( desmoinesregister.com )   DeSantis signs ban on lab-grown meat in Florida, says 'elites' are pushing it • Florida Phoenix Il

Great symposium at Yale this weekend on state and local government law! Kudos to the YLJ Board for producing a great event, and at the start of finals week. Swan and managing editor commend the upcoming YLJ symposium issue. Here are this week's picks. Louisiana Will Get a New City After a Yearslong Court Battle - The New York Times ( nytimes.com ) Banning Guaranteed Income Programs Undermines American Values | Urban Institute Supreme Court Case on Criminalizing Homelessness

Fresh picks. The New York Times op-ed would make a great reading for your local government law class. Homicides Are Plummeting in American Cities - WSJ Guaranteed income programs spread as more cities expand the anti-poverty safety net ( nbcnews.com ) 22-lane highway through Austin's center? We can do better. | Opinion ( statesman.com ) US Supreme Court Skeptical of Another Public Corruption Law (1) ( bloomberglaw.com )   Police Oversight in Florida Is Already Weak. The State

And God Said, Let There Be Housing ( residenturbanist.com ) Court tells wealthy NJ town: We'll decide where you'll put affordable housing - Gothamist   Pay A Toll To Use DuSable Lake Shore Drive? UChicago Students Float Ideas To Solve City's Pension Crisis ( blockclubchicago.org ) Staring down the wrecking ball, these Brooklyn grandmothers won’t be moved ( whatimreading.net ) Division in Oregon highlights growing political rift between rural and urban areas | PBS NewsHour Sac