RICHMOND, Va, — After some three hours of arguments on whether Dylann Roof, who in 2015 killed nine people in a South Carolina church, should have his death sentence overturned
April 30, 2021 1:15 PM, EDT
Pennsylvania Panel Explores Alternatives to Bridge Tolls, Gas Taxes
I-95 s mile-long double-decked Girard Point Bridge in Philadelphia. (Matt Rourke/Associated Press)
It’s not clear yet if Pennsylvania drivers will pay $1 or $2 to cross major bridges, but Pennsylvania needs billions of dollars from somewhere for transportation, state Rep. Mike Carroll said.
“So whether those nine bridges get tolled is an open question, but for those who say, ‘No,’ my question is, ‘What instead?’ ” Carroll said to other members of the state Transportation Revenue Options Commission during a teleconference April 29.
A day earlier, the Senate passed a bill requiring Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration to restart the process that devised the plan for tolls on bridges, including spans on I-80 at Nescopeck Creek in Black Creek Township and at the Lehigh River in White Haven.
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Since last summer, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have used an obscure federal regulation to impose a nationwide moratorium on a huge chunk of residential evictions. This is constitutionally dubious, to say the least. But the CDC just extended it through June.
The moratorium’s proponents argue that federal authority over interstate commerce permits this move. But the Interstate Commerce Clause isn’t a plenary power over all areas of life simply because everything, at a certain point, can be linked to commercial activity. The Tenth Amendment makes clear that all powers not expressly delegated to the federal government are left to the states. Still, the Commerce Clause has been used to justify a myriad of regulations that involve no commerce “among the several states,” and in some cases no “commerce” at all. Notable examples include prohibiting cannabis grown in your backyard for personal medical use, or stopping the control of a rodent populati
Wyoming State Representative Scott Heiner (R-HD18) provided the following update on the 2021 legislative session.
This week we began to work on the Supplemental Budget on the House and Senate Floors. The debate was often ‘spirited’ with a lot of good discussion. All Legislators are trying to do the best for the future of Wyoming as best they can. After the Governor spent many months making painful Step 2 and Step 3 cuts to the Budget, many of my colleagues in the House wanted to put much of the funding back in. While speaking with the Governor about the budget on Thursday night, he commented that if all this funding is restored, he may be forced to make cuts again during the next year and ripping the band-aide off a 2