Across the country, land-use officials are grappling with chronic housing shortages — the result of longstanding legal and policy failures, including archaic zoning rules and ongoing labor and supply shortages. From Seattle to Key West, to Calabasas, there simply is not enough housing for the American people. Among the many potential solutions pro-housing advocates have proposed are so-called “build-to-rent” (BTR) developments — indistinguishable from traditional single-family tracts, except that their occupants are tenants instead of owners. That’s it.
Illinois has banned construction of new nuclear power plants for the past 36 years, since 1987. That’s a real predicament for a state that already relies heavily on that energy source for 53% of its electricity needs.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) told reporters Tuesday that it will be “practically impossible” to pass legislation providing more military aid to Ukraine before Christmas and urged President Biden to get more involved in the stalled negotiations. “All I have said is [it’s] practically impossible, even though we reach an agreement, to craft...
Members of the Biden administration met to discuss how to implement President Biden’s artificial intelligence executive order on Tuesday for the inaugural meeting of the White House AI Council, according to an official. During the meeting, the officials received a classified intelligence briefing from the president's national security team to discuss the international dimensions...
The Hill’s Rachel Frazin was selected by SEAL (Sustainability, Environmental Achievement, and Leadership) as one of 12 top environmental journalists for 2023. The SEAL Awards are administered by an environmental advocacy organization that honors leadership through corporate sustainability awards & environmental journalism awards. Frazin was named alongside journalists from Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe and...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (D-Ga.) fiercely rejected the idea that former President Trump, the 2024 GOP presidential front-runner, would pick rival Nikki Haley to serve as his running mate in the general election. “MAGA would revolt if Nikki Haley were to even be given an internship in Trump’s next administration,” Greene wrote on X, the...
Dozens of students were arrested at Brown University on Monday after they staged a sit-in demanding the school divest “its endowment from Israeli military occupation" amid the war in Gaza. Forty-one students were arrested after the Brown Divest Coalition organized a sit-in at University Hall that began Monday morning. The students were charged with “willful...