December 3, 2019
Iosco County News-Herald, Mitch Hotts, December 2, 2019- A Michigan gun rights organization Monday filed a lawsuit against the City of Eastpointe over an ordinance that bans storage of a firearm in an unlocked motor vehicle. Dearborn Heights-based Michigan Gun Owners and Eastpointe resident Lance DeVooght filed the suit in …
December 2, 2019
TribLive, Jennifer Rafanan Kennedy & Corey O’Connor, December 1, 2019- It has been nearly 11 years since Pennsylvania’s Legislature took any action to raise the state’s depressed minimum wage. While states all around us passed laws raising wages, Pennsylvanians have been stuck at the lowest level allowed by federal law, …
December 2, 2019
Highlands News-Sun, Jim Saunders, December 1, 2019- Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office Tuesday urged the Florida Supreme Court to reject an appeal in a battle about the city of Coral Gables’ attempt to ban the use of Styrofoam food containers. Coral Gables took the dispute to the Supreme Court after …
November 7, 2019
Florida Politics, Ryan Nicol, November 6, 2019- Democratic state Reps. Anna Eskamani and Michael Grieco are once again pushing a bill (HB 6043) that would allow local municipalities to ban single-use plastics such as plastic bags. Florida law currently blocks local governments from acting on the issue. “[N]o local government, local governmental agency, or …
October 8, 2019
Republic Report, Evan Vorpahl, October 7, 2019- In a new white paper by Local Solutions Support Center (LSSC) and Illumination Investigations, Evan Vorpahl and Lisa Graves document how Juul has flooded statehouses with lobbyists to advance T-21 legislation – bills to raise the purchase age of tobacco to 21, but …