Alan Greenblatt

6 days ago | governing.com | Alan Greenblatt

Effective immediately, House Bill 1217 caps residential rent hikes during a 12-month period at 7 percent plus inflation, or 10 percent, whichever is lower. The limit will last 15 years. The bill also restricts manufactured home rent increases to 5% with no expiration date.

6 days ago | governing.com | Alan Greenblatt

But the 82,000 rides taken each year allow people without cars to get to work, help those with disabilities get around and connect patients with crucial health care. “The value of those rides is unmeasurable, because the people that are using our system need our system,” said Brian Horinka, the city’s transit superintendent. Compared with major American cities, the ridership on public buses in Minot, North Dakota, can seem relatively minuscule.

6 days ago | governing.com | Alan Greenblatt

The California Privacy Protection Agency was under pressure to back away from rules it drafted. Business groups, lawmakers, and Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom said they would be costly to businesses, potentially stifle innovation, and usurp the authority of the legislature, where proposed AI regulations have proliferated. In a unanimous vote last week, the agency’s board watered down the rules, which impose safeguards on AI-like systems.

6 days ago | governing.com | Alan Greenblatt

This article is part of Governing's Inside Politics newsletter. Sign up here. Term Limits Come to a Small Southern City: Twenty or 30 years ago, when voters in more than a dozen states approved term limits for legislators, they not only liked the idea of kicking out long-serving politicians but often had particular targets in mind.

1 week ago | governing.com | Alan Greenblatt

Of the more than 1,000 National Science Foundation grants killed last month by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, some 40 percent were inside its education division. These grants to further STEM education research accounted for a little more than half of the $616 million NSF committed for projects canceled by DOGE, according to Dan Garisto, a freelance journalist reporting for Nature, a peer-reviewed scientific journal that also covers science news.