Some city landlords have begun prohibiting tenants from smoking inside their apartments, because of the dangers of second-hand smoke.
via Gothamist.
Dec 06
Dec 03
WASHINGTON — If you are the owner of beachfront property and the state comes along and widens the beach, do you own the new land or does the state?
“You could have televised spring-break parties in front of somebody’s house,” said Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., arguing that property values were not the only thing at stake in a case the Supreme Court heard Wednesday.In an argument studded with references to spring break, amusement parks and hot dog vendors, the Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled with that issue.
via NYTimes.com.
[HT: Attorney Tristan Pettit]
Dec 03
I just received a letter from the city saying that I was being fined for “Recyc in Rubbish.”
via Philly
Dec 01
Dec 01
“Brownfield cleanups create jobs,” Jackson said, citing $110 million in federal money available for environmental remediation job training. “Doing right by the environment is doing right by the economy. Once that process of cleaning up sites is complete, the sites themselves go to work.”
via NOLA.
