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Supreme Court handed California chance to lower housing costs

New housing construction in a neighborhood in Elk Grove on July 8, 2022. Thanks to a recent blockbuster U.S. Supreme Court ruling on excessive and often arbitrary local fees, reform may be on the way that could help ease California’s worsening housing crisis. But critical unanswered questions from the ruling could also lead to an unproductive […]

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Will Less Homework Stress Make California Students Happier?

This article was originally published in CalMatters. Some bills before California’s Legislature don’t come from passionate policy advocates, or from powerful interest groups. Sometimes, the inspiration comes from a family car ride. While campaigning two years ago, Assemblymember Pilar Schiavo’s daughter, then nine, asked from the backseat what her mother could do if she won. […]

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Alderwoman Amy Roelke Re-Elected As Columbus City Council President | #citycouncil

(Columbus) Alderwoman Amy Roelke was re-elected as president of the Columbus City Council at a recent meeting. She was initially elected to fill the role in May 2023. Other candidates included alderwomen Sarah Motiff and Molly Finkler, but Roelke won with four votes, with Motiff and Finkler receiving one vote each. The combined final tally […]

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Ray Patlán, muralist and mayor of SF’s Balmy Alley, dies at 77

Raymond Michael Patlán, an internationally esteemed Chicano muralist once dubbed mayor of San Francisco’s Balmy Alley, died on April 15 in Oakland. He was 77. Friends remember Patlán as a “dynamic force.” His powerful, politically outspoken murals about labor, the Central American crisis and inequality have not only adorned the walls of the Mission District […]

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More names revealed in Arizona fake-elector case | The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Advertisement Advertisement Today at 5:07 a.m. by JACQUES BILLEAUD The Associated Press FILE – Attorney John Eastman, the architect of a legal strategy aimed at keeping former President Donald Trump in power, talks to reporters after a hearing in Los Angeles, June 20, 2023. A judge has recommended that conservative attorney Eastman lose his California […]

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Batesville City Council approves zoning changes for former Batesville Country Club property | White River Now | #citycouncil

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Arcola City Council candidate feels threatened by Mayor

Chris De Los Santos, a lifelong Arcola resident, now running for city council, believes the current Mayor has threatened him. In a video, on Facebook, Mayor Fred Burton does seem to take issue with De Los Santos: “You need to tell him to get out this race, they play for keeps in politics, he’s got […]

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Ukraine jails agriculture chief | The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

KYIV, Ukraine — A Ukrainian court on Friday ordered the detention of the country’s farm minister in the latest high-profile corruption investigation, while Kyiv security officials were assessing how they can recover battlefield momentum in the war against Russia. Ukraine’s High Anti-Corruption Court ruled that Agriculture Minister Oleksandr Solskyi should be held in custody for […]

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I moved from California to Portugal as a single mom of 2. Here people actually care about kids.

Aisha Canfield is a single mom of two daughters aged 6 years and 22 months She moved from California, to Lisbon, Portugal in August 2023. She says it’s hard to parent in the US when there’s so much individualism. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Aisha Canfield. It has been edited for […]

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