Author: Constitutional Nobody

Amidst a housing affordability crisis, Las Vegas reportedly has over $7 billion in home value on the market. Redfin’s new report spelled out a record total value for the city’s real estate market. “What I think has happened, we have very high prices,” said George Kiprios, president of the Vegas Realtors Association. “Our market is…

Wisconsin’s Supreme Court overturned the state’s 1849 abortion law with a Wednesday ruling, stating that legislation since then should supersede and replace the law in a 4-3 decision. The ruling was written by Rebecca Dallet with concurrence by Jill Karofsky, Ann Walsh Bradley and Janet Protasiewicz. In dissent were Annette Ziegler, Rebecca Bradley and Brian…

Although the United States and Canada reached an agreement to scrap Ottawa’s controversial Digital Services Tax – estimated to cost U.S. companies $1 billion annually – a much larger and ongoing dispute over drug prices is getting less attention. Canada’s government is keeping the price of American-made pharmaceuticals artificially low while U.S. consumers and taxpayers foot the…

While Ohio’s new budget has been the legislative focus in the last two weeks, lawmakers continue to push to change the rules voters approved for recreational marijuana use. Many expected the House to pass changes earlier this month that would have cut in half the amount of home-grown marijuana allowed and given cities more power…

Wisconsin’s new budget includes $5 million that will re-start the state’s film tax credits and create a state film office as part of the Wisconsin Department of Tourism. Advocates, including Gov. Tony Evers, have pushed the tax credits as a way to have more movies and television shows film in the state, saying that will…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday encouraged Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to stay out of politics just one day after the billionaire announced his new political party. “The principles of DOGE were very popular – I think if you looked at the polling Elon was not,” Scott Bessent said on CNN’s State of…

Former U.S. Rep. John Fleming, R-La., is making his case that he has a more conservative voting record and is more aligned with President Donald Trump as he tries to out incumbent Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., in next year’s Republican primaries. “This is going to be a national election,” Fleming recently told the Just the…

In a win for the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted 5-1 to limit flu vaccines to only those free of thimerosal. The mercury-containing preservative, largely phased out of childhood vaccines by 2001, still lingers in some multi-dose flu shots. But with 96% of U.S. flu vaccines…

As the death count in the Independence Day flooding in central Texas has now surpassed that of Hurricane Harvey, with dozens of children reported dead and missing who were camping at Camp Mystic in Kerr County, Texans are asking why a warning system wasn’t in place and why the camp didn’t evacuate when others did….

The final version of President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” contains a series of tax policy changes that are taking effect now that Trump has signed the legislation into law. The impact of some of the changes will be seen from Main Street to Wall Street. Reducing Taxes on Tips The bill reduces taxes on…