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As a licensed geriatric nurse practitioner and former tenured professor, I have served Kansans for more than three decades. I have seen thousands of patients and have never had a complaint filed against me. But in November 2024, the Kansas State Board of Nursing punished me for giving public talks on dementia, claiming I was practicing nursing w ...

With energy and housing costs climbing, the need to construct more power infrastructure and housing is urgent. However, that straightforward mission is often thwarted by layers of red tape, including permits, environmental reviews, and other procedural hurdles, which can delay or even halt projects capable of creating jobs, lowering costs, and expa ...

There's only one nuclear power plant left in California: the Diablo Canyon plant, which sits near Avila Beach in San Luis Obispo County and provides almost 10% of California's energy. The California Coastal Commission will allow the plant to remain open for five more years—but only because the plant's owner, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), ...

A decade ago, the Pung family of Isabella County, Mich., was hit with an improper property tax bill totaling $2,240, which included interest and fees. Rather than own up to its mistake, the government foreclosed on the Pungs' property, confiscating the whole home for a tax that never should have been due. What followed was a bureaucratic torture ...

On this day 234 years ago, the Bill of Rights was officially ratified. With two centuries of examples showing us how willing governments are to ignore even these enumerated rights, it's astonishing that those first ten amendments almost didn't make it into the Constitution at all. If not for a small group of determined Anti-Federalists—and the ...

Within months of the Declaration of Independence, the new states created a shell of a government, shaped by their experience under British tyranny. But the Articles of Confederation were weak and defective: The primary problem was a powerless federal authority, a government that was more like a union of independent nations than a single, unified co ...

In 2024, the Plaquemines Port Harbor & Terminal District—a political subdivision of the state of Louisiana—launched a troubling campaign against a property owner by attempting to seize private land on the cheap via eminent domain, lease it to a private company, and pocket the profit. On December 5, Pacific Legal Foundation filed an amicu ...

As the Senate prepared to vote on the funding bill to reopen the federal government earlier this month, Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) warned that passing the legislation would "regulate the hemp industry to death." Buried deep inside the continuing resolution was a provision that would completely reverse nearly seven years of industry progress—and pot ...

Two years ago, the Supreme Court struck down Harvard and UNC's discriminatory racial preferences as unconstitutional, banning affirmative action in college admissions. But in the wake of that decision, schools and government entities often resorted to discrimination by proxy, including proxies for race like ZIP Code and income. In a new law revi ...