December 2, 2018
The Preemption Watch Preemption Map tracks state preemption of eight major public health and safety issues. Click on any one of the eight issues to see which states preempt local control. Click on your state to see whether local authority has been preserved or preempted across the eight issues. Discrimination: …
September 10, 2018
Journal Star Bill Knight, September 6, 2018- Courts can safeguard against legislative or executive powers and overreach, but judges can’t be relied on, especially when the Trump administration is packing courts at the federal level – from local districts to the Supreme Court. Sometimes, judges stand up for justice, of …
September 6, 2018
KIRO 7 News, Graham Johnson, September 3, 2018- At a Labor Day event in Burien, union leaders stumped for Initiative 1634, which would block Seattle-style soda taxes. “It supports affordable groceries,” said Nicole Grant of the Martin Luther King, Jr. County Labor Council. I-1634 leaves Seattle’s controversial sugary beverage tax alone but would …
August 30, 2018
The Pew Charitable Trusts, Jenni Bergal, August 29, 2018- Last month, Massachusetts became the sixth state to boost its legal smoking age to 21. While two dozen other states considered similar bills this legislative session — and many likely will do so again in 2019 — much of the groundswell …
August 6, 2018
Ed Source, David Washburn, July 31, 2018- It had, in many respects, become the little movement that could. After more than a decade of failed attempts at both the state and local levels to impose soda taxes, health advocates scored a watershed victory in 2014 when Berkeley voters approved by a two-thirds …