Nicole Yeatman

Sandra Hoopes stared at the piece of paper in her hands, transfixed by the numbers glaring back at her. Six hundred thousand dollars.

Lindsay Hoopes is a small business owner facing nearly $4 million in fines for hosting wine tastings. At her licensed winery.

Jeffrey Hagen destroyed no buildings. He harmed no one. His offense, according to the State of Nevada, is submitting design drawings.

Robin and Ron Fodé can pinpoint the date and exact time the troubles began for their family-owned farm of over 40 years. It was February 14, 2017, at 3:30 in the afternoon. Valentine’s Day.

The long report was a recommendation to commissioners: to fine John Levy, a Carlsbad homeowner, $2.5 million over two locked gates. A hearing was thirteen days away.

Not only is the American Revolution the most important event in American history, but it may very well be the greatest event of the modern world. The Revolution changed everything.

Jerry W. P. Schauffler, longtime Pacific Legal Foundation trustee, former Board of Trustees chair, and Bay Area developer, passed away in the San Francisco...

In Massachusetts, anyone who does their own plumbing without a license is breaking the law. 

“The nuclear family was a mistake,” David Brooks declared in The Atlantic in 2020. He meant it not as an attack on the family but as nostalgia for multigenerational living.

There are sudden home invasions and then there are slow ones, the kind that unfold over months or even years, by increments so small you don’t realize you’ve lost control of your home until it’s too late. That’s what having a nightmare tenant is like.

In Rhode Island, it seems, the storm is just the beginning. The real damage to your home comes afterward, at the hands of the State. 

Marc and Tia Pung were in the middle of remodeling their home in Isabella County, Michigan, when they lost the house to the government.