Houston has seen a gentle density revolution since the 1990s. Allowing neighborhoods to opt out of citywide reforms was crucial.
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Seattle’s law mandating higher pay for food delivery workers is a case study in backfire economics
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US Supreme Court denies California’s plea for immunity for COVID-19 deaths at San Quentin prison
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California junk fee ban could upend restaurant industry
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Florida is the first state to ban lab grown meat - Ron DeSantis
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Book ban fight in Nevada would create LGBTQ section of libraries
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European Commission approves creation of an environmental zone in the city centre of Stockholm, where petrol and diesel cars will be banned entirely from 2025
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San Francisco sues Oakland over proposed airport name change
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US state North Carolina medical marijuana sales begin at Cherokee nation store
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Maui wildfire report: Officials declined extra help before a deadly inferno engulfed Lahaina, killing more than 100 people
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California sets nation-leading limit for carcinogenic chromium-6 in drinking water
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Copenhagen and Paris mayors exchange lessons learned after huge fires destroy landmarks
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Networked geothermal is catching on in Minnesota
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Google blocks some California news as fight over online journalism bill escalates
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Idaho libraries must move materials deemed harmful to children, or face lawsuits, under new law
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Texas is replacing thousands of human exam graders with AI
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Chechnya 'bans music that is too fast or too slow'
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Arizona governor signs bill approving human composting burials
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German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice
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Families of people buried in pauper's field next to Hinds County Penal Farm near Jackson, MS, are calling for a federal investigation into the burials, which took place without families being notified
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Phoenix passes historic ordinance giving outdoor workers protection from extreme heat
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California is preparing to defend itself — and the nation — against Donald Trump 2.0
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Florida latest to restrict social media for kids as legal battle looms
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San Francisco city leaders look to bring back emergency sirens by end of 2024
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America's first right-to-repair bill that bans parts pairing
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Why ban books when you can ban book awards? Suburban Illinois district cancels youth chosen Caudill Awards.
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Connecticut, USA wants to penalize insurers for backing fossil-fuel projects
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California must triple its rate of carbon emissions reductions to reach 2030 target, report says
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US libraries struggle to afford the demand for e-books and seek new state laws in fight with publishers
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350,000 Californians are now on the FAIR Plan, the last resort for fire insurance. Now what?
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The problem with California Prop 1
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Denmark's second-largest city is trialling a first-of-its-kind deposit scheme to tackle single-use coffee cups
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US Federal Trade Commission and eight states sue to block supermarket merger between Kroger and Albertsons
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One of the world’s biggest cities may be just months away from running out of water
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California's push for mandatory ethnic studies classes runs into the Israel-Palestine conflict in designing a curriculum
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Florida official letter: "Misrepresenting" gender on drivers licenses is fraud, changes now banned
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Ohio, Michigan Republicans in released audio: "Endgame" is to ban trans care "for everyone"
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A landslide of contaminated soil threatens environmental disaster in Denmark. Who pays to stop it?
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Ohio pastor charged for housing the homeless
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You don't need a license to walk
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British Columbia, Canada: Family pets will no longer be considered property during divorce proceedings
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West Virginia bill would mandate "curing" trans people under 21
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Legislators in Kentucky and other fossil states charge EV drivers more than double in taxes than internal combustion engine drivers
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ABBA's holographic dancing queens have had a tangible impact, adding over £320 million of money, money, money to London's economy in its first year
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Why a 100-year supply? How Arizona got its famous, yet arbitrarily numbered groundwater rule.
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Panel settles on Minnesota flag's final design
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California gas tax revenue will drop by $6 billion, threatening roads
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Does your flag fail? CGP Grey grades the state flags of the USA.
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The red US state brain drain isn’t coming. It’s happening right now.
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Amsterdam to cut speed limits 40% to improve road safety
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