New York

Preliminary Injunction Against New York Bans on Licensed Carry 0
- Other Courts
- November 7, 2022
Originally published on Reason.com Today U.S. District Judge Glenn T. Suddaby issued a preliminary injunction against many portions of New York’s recently enacted “Concealed Carry Improvement Act.” The act had been passed shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, which upheld the Second Amendment right to
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NY Governor scared of his eco-left flank 0
- Archive, ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT, Legal
- January 9, 2013
For the last four years, the state of New York has imposed a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing supposedly to give Governor Andrew Cuomo time to study the process before making a decision on whether or not to lift it. Four years seems like a long time to study a process that has been around for
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If We Only Had a Few Billion Dollars . . .0
- Miscellaneous
- November 1, 2012
If only New York officials had heeded the warnings by building levees and other storm barriers, they could have avoided much of the damage caused by Sandy–at least, according to the New York Times. Hindsight is 20-20 vision, but those warnings were about the sea-level rise that is supposed to accompany global warming, not the […]
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Should New York Rebuild the Subways?0
- Miscellaneous
- October 31, 2012
After Hurricane Katrina, some people argued that we shouldn’t rebuild New Orleans, not simply because it was below sea level but because the city was economically and politically dysfunctional. The same argument could be made for the New York City subway system, which was so heavily damaged by Sandy that repairing it could cost “tens […]
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