Decisions related to home building and zoning will now come under the purview of local leaders. An Obama-era housing rule that was terminated by the first Trump administration and revived by the Biden administration has again been canceled. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) said the regulation has led to excessive bureaucracy
The IRS’s free direct-file tax website is currently still online. The Trump administration has removed the team of federal workers who helped build the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) free tax-filing platform and reworked websites across government, a General Service Administration spokesperson said on March 1. GSA’s Director of Technology Transformation Services, Thomas Shedd, notified the
The IRS’s free direct-file tax website is currently still online. The Trump administration has removed the team of federal workers who helped build the IRS’s free tax-filing platform and reworked websites across government, a General Service Administration (GSA) spokesperson said on March 1. The GSA’s director of technology transformation services, Thomas Shedd, notified the employees
Like many parents this time of year, my wife and I have begun to look at colleges with our son (there’s a really good book about this). But a lot has changed since we both graduated—for instance, tuition. Take our alma mater, Georgetown University, which cost $23,000 a year in the 1990s. Annual tuition has skyrocketed to
The DOJ has filed a notice of appeal and is seeking a stay on the court order. A federal judge has ruled against President Donald Trump’s firing of Hampton Dellinger, the head of a federal watchdog agency, in the first ruling on a case that will test the scope of presidential power, after the Trump
The governor’s effort to re-employ federal workers comes as many of those federal employees are taking legal action to get their jobs back. As thousands of federal workers continue to face termination, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has announced several actions to help the impacted residents of his state get back on their feet. “Federal workers
If you thought law students hijacking classes for inane exercises in “naming the violence” was bad, just wait. While my law school experience did not involve scandals of national interest, it was punctuated by students attempting to do anything—lecture, agitate, yell—except learn from others. Here’s one story I’ll never forget, from the same criminal law