It is hard to imagine a more convoluted set of review and approval procedures than those in the state's new housing law.

​In the U.S., cities such as Seattle and New York now permit new single exit stairway buildings, as does the state of Hawaii.

For the past 12 years, Shabir Kamal, 58, has been a nurse in the emergency room at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital. He’s a tall ...