(The Center Square) — New York’s “scaffold law” is driving up insurance costs and draining billions of dollars from the state’s economy, according to a new trade industry report, which is renewing calls for reform.  The analysis released Wednesday by the Building Trades Employers’ Association said the law, which dates back to 1885, continues to impose “absolute […]

(The Center Square) – Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson, on Wednesday, held a press briefing to announce he has requested a disaster declaration from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to address widespread flooding across Western Washington after several days of near-record rainfall. Even as the governor spoke, several flood-prone communities were in the midst of evacuating […]

EXCLUSIVE — A prominent conservative legal firm with close ties to the Trump administration took aim on Wednesday at a little-noticed Environmental Protection Agency rule from the Biden administration that it says created an improper, preferential fast-track for certain public records requests under the banner of “environmental justice.” America First Legal, the firm founded by […]

The Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday with how courts consider multiple intelligence quotient tests when evaluating if a person is sufficiently intellectually disabled to be disqualified from the death penalty, as Alabama seeks to reverse a lower court that blocked the execution of a convicted murderer. The justices heard arguments in Hamm v. Smith over […]