Health Affairs

Criminalizing Substance Use And Homelessness Harms Public Health And Safety

A wave of new “tough-on-crime” state laws across the country criminalizes substance use and homelessness, raising serious public health concerns. For example, 2024’s “Safer Kentucky Act,” imposes ...
Reason

More Historical Evidence Showing that the Public Use Clause of the Fifth Amendment Does Not Allow Takings that Transfer Property to Private Parties

The Supreme Court's controversial 5-4 ruling in Kelo v. City of New London (2005), held that private "economic development" is enough to satisfy the Fifth Amendment requirement that the government can ...
East Oregonian

Umatilla National Forest moves to Phase A public use restrictions

PENDLETON — The U.S. Forest Service is implementing public use restrictions on the Umatilla National Forest due to increased fire danger and dry weather conditions. The Forest Service in a press ...
Health Affairs

Transforming Public Health Practice With Generative Artificial Intelligence

Public health is what a nation does together as a society to create and ensure the conditions in which everyone can be healthy. 1 Periodically, circumstances call for a dramatic shift in the ways in ...
wtvr

Henrico County waives fees for public-use areas after icy conditions impact trash collection

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. — Henrico County is temporarily waiving fees for residents to use its public-use areas after winter weather caused icy conditions throughout the county, impacting trash collection.