Introduction New York employers will be required, for the first time, to hand employees a copy of their personnel file on request and to tell workers when something damaging is put into it. Governor Kathy Hochul signed S3460 into law on September 9, 2026 as Chapter 293 of the Laws of 2026, adding Section 210-b...
Four restaurants in the United States are currently serving salmon that was never caught, never farmed, and never alive as a fish. It is grown from Pacific coho cells in steel vessels in San Francisco, harvested, and combined with plant-based ingredients into something that looks and cuts like a fillet. Eight states have made selling...
This article reflects the court record as of September 13, 2026. In the space of eleven days this summer, three American courts confronted nearly the same legal question about three mothers who had killed their children. Each case was a homicide in which no one disputed who caused the deaths. Each turned entirely on whether...
Second in a two-part series. Part I examined the antitrust exemption bill filed five days before the “Pacing the Frontier” letter. On Sept. 10, the AI company Anthropic published a 154-page threat intelligence report. Buried in it was an account of an Iran-linked account using the company’s Claude model to assemble what the report called...
More than a thousand employees of the companies building the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence signed a public statement on July 28 asking the United States government to help build the tools to slow them down. The signatures ran to the top of the industry: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki, Meta...
Introduction In January 2026, Kaohly Vang Her was sworn in as mayor of St. Paul — the city’s first woman and first Hmong American mayor. She had entered the race the previous August with no institutional backing, against an incumbent endorsed by both of Minnesota’s U.S. senators and the governor. She won by fewer than...
Property tax growth is capped. Ticket quotas are a crime. Red light cameras are banned. Code enforcement is none of those things which is exactly where the cameras went. Second of two parts. Part One examined Dallas’s AI “blight score” program: 100 cameras on 50 sanitation trucks, more than 21,000 properties flagged in four months,...
The city mounted 100 cameras on sanitation trucks, flagged 21,000 properties in four months, and set a target of 5,200 enforcement notices a year. Homeowners on fixed incomes are the ones holding the notices. Twice a month, a brush and bulky-waste truck rolls past a house in southern Dallas. It does not stop. Mounted on...
Missouri voters cast primary ballots on August 4 in congressional districts drawn by House Bill 1. One month later, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled unanimously that HB 1 never took effect and has never been the law of the state. Both statements are accurate. Reconciling them is the whole of Missouri’s redistricting fight, and the...
In February, Denver told Flock Safety it would not renew the contract for the license plate readers used by its police department. Mayor Mike Johnston, who had unilaterally approved that contract a year earlier over public objection, reversed himself. The city then hired Axon to do the same job. Denver’s replacement contract is genuinely tighter...