Nicole Yeatman

Equality and Opportunity

The Storyteller’s Role 

By the time I met Annette Hubbell in person at her sun-dappled home in a San Diego suburb, I’d already watched her on stage:...
Property Rights

Can New York City Force Homeowners to Sponsor Art? 

Before artists moved into SoHo, the neighborhood was known as “hell’s hundred acres,” says photographer David Lawrence. “It was full of warehouses and flop...
Regulation

Criminalizing Joy: The Dolphin Therapists of Hawaii 

Eliza Wille used to start her therapy sessions by inviting her patients to wade into the crystalline waters off Kona, Hawaii. The ocean was...
Economic Freedom

Nurse Forced to Pay $50,000 State Fee 

It is a special kind of science: the science of helping someone get well. Some doctors approach it with a sniper’s precision, zeroing in...
Environment

Alabama Family Punished for Conservation Efforts

It was the listing that spooked Gray Skipper’s family. If a threatened species is allegedly sighted on your property, it’s game over: You lose the legal ability to use your land the way you want.
Economic Freedom

Feeding the Homeless

On a gray afternoon at the train station in Newark, New Jersey, a dozen homeless men and women were panhandling when a large man entered the station without any luggage.
Property Rights

The Wild History of the New West

Cecil Andrus, Secretary of the Interior in the Carter administration, stood before a room filled with members of the National Wildlife Foundation. It was...
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John Harris, Farmer and Horse Racer

Midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, off I-5 on the Western edge of the San Joaquin Valley, sits Harris Farms and Harris Ranch—a...
Property Rights

There Will Be Rules 

Cameron Edwards wakes up with the sun every morning. His land in Logan County, Kansas, stretches over 7,000 acres purchased by his grandfather and...
Property Rights

Thrown to the Wolves

As the sun slips behind the mountain ridges in Sierra Valley, California, local ranchers fear their livestock won’t survive the night.   Nearly every inch of...
Property Rights

A Red Rock Legacy Under Threat

When you ask Chris Heaton how he feels about the land he works on, his voice changes.   “It’s literally home,” he says simply. “It’s sacred.”  The...
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Exploring the West 

John C. Frémont stood on a peak in the Rocky Mountains, dressed in buckskin. It was 1842. Frémont was a roguish Army topographer from Charleston, South Carolina, who had charm, no money, and a scandalous family history.
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She was in the hospital. The fines kept running.

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

Family Vineyard Fined $4 Million for Hosting Tastings

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

California Architect Faces Charges for Conceptual Drawing

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

Family Farm Fined for Watering Potatoes

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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.

Coastal Commission Fines Homeowner $2.5 Million Over Gates

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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.
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