What do you actually cover?
Laws and regulations that change how a business operates, at the federal, California, and local level. We launched with a Los Angeles and Orange County edition because the smaller cities in this region have almost nobody covering city hall for business owners.
Where does the information come from?
Primary sources only: bill text, adopted ordinances, agency regulations and guidance, court opinions, and official rate schedules. Every article lists the sources it relies on, with links, so you can check us.
We do not rewrite other outlets' reporting. Facts are not copyrightable but articles are, and a publication built on summarizing other people's work has nothing of its own to offer.
What does neutrality mean here?
We describe what a rule says, who it applies to, and when it takes effect. We do not tell you whether it is good policy. When a law is contested, we describe the dispute and cite the arguments rather than picking a side.
This is not neutrality about facts. If a rule is in force, we say so plainly. It is neutrality about whether it should be.
Do you use automation or AI?
Yes, and we would rather say so than be found out. An automated pipeline monitors published agendas, ordinances, and agency feeds across 124 jurisdictions and flags items that appear to affect business operations. It decides what a human looks at. It does not decide what gets published.
No article is published without a person reviewing it against the primary source. We do not publish on a fixed schedule regardless of whether anything happened, because that produces filler, and filler in a compliance publication is worse than silence.
What will you not do?
- Give legal advice. We are journalists, not counsel. No article creates an attorney-client relationship.
- Take payment for coverage. No sponsored articles, no paid placement, and no coverage in exchange for anything. We do carry clearly labeled sponsor modules, including affiliated placements for Rehost, which shares an operator with Federal Weekly. A placement never buys a topic, angle, source, conclusion, correction, or preview of an unpublished article. Every commercial relationship is disclosed on the ownership page.
- Overstate certainty. Where the law is unsettled or a rule is being litigated, we say so rather than implying a clean answer.
- Scare readers into action. Much of the existing writing in this space is law firm marketing, and it is calibrated to alarm. We report exposure accurately, including when it is low.
How do I challenge something?
Our corrections policy explains how errors are reported, fixed, and disclosed.