State-Sanctioned Drug Use Goes South?

“I remember saying … I feel so sick I need to go home.” This is how a young woman, identified only as Adele, began describing the time she overdosed after injecting heroin many years ago. She went on, saying that as she rested on her ex-partner’s bed “suddenly, I’ve gone into this overdose.” She was...

Squatter’s rights do not exist; property rights do.

On May 15, 2024, Texas Public Policy Foundation’s James Quintero testified before the Senate committee on the issue of “squatter’s rights.” McCaw Property Management (n.d., para 1) defines a squatter as “somebody who is living on a land or in a building that is either unoccupied, abandoned, or foreclosed without the legal consent of the...