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: …
April 4, 2016
Governing March 25, 2016 By Alan Greenblatt St. Louis can’t get a break from its own state. Last year, Missouri enacted a law preventing St. Louis and other cities from setting their own minimum-wage rates and from banning plastic grocery bags. This year, state lawmakers have spent a considerable amount of …
November 17, 2015
In November 2014, we posted our state preemption predictions for the 2015 legislative sessions. We based our predictions on the history of state preemption strategy and on trends in preemption legislation filed or adopted in 2014 and earlier. We also considered past experience with industry lobbyists and front groups, as …
February 13, 2015
The following interview was originally published in the November/December 2014 issue of NFPA Journal®, the magazine of the National Fire Protection Association (Vol. 108, #6) copyright © 2014. All rights reserved. Perhaps no other state has a stronger history of home fire sprinkler use than California. In 1979, the city of San …
October 28, 2013
San Jose Mercury-News — Joshua Melvin and Thomas Peele A Redwood City apartment building lacking a key piece of fire-safety equipment burned last week — the second such incident since July — raising questions about the need for fire sprinklers. Like tens of thousands of Bay Area apartment buildings, the 73-unit …