Berkeley city council will start meetings with land acknowledgment | #citycouncil
The Indian Organization for Change held a gathering to save the West Berkeley Ohlone Shellmound on 4th Street on March 20, 2021 Photo: Pete Rosos Credit: Pete Rosos The Berkeley City Council will now begin all meetings with an Indigenous land acknowledgment, recognizing that the Ohlone people are the original inhabitants of Berkeley and that […]
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HIllary Schieve seeks another term as Reno Mayor
RENO, Nev. (KOLO) – “I think now more than ever we are going to see significant impacts; initiatives due to the infrastructure bill,” says Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve. “The things that are happening in Reno, like regionalizing fire, housing, the financial investment. It is going to be massive..what that takes is someone who truly reaches […]
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Republicans have cash advantage in Alabama legislative contests | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Republican candidates continue to enjoy large cash advantages in competitive state legislative races, though Democrats are making pushes in contests in Montgomery and Huntsville. GOP nominees in 43 state House races with at least two candidates finished last week with a median of $69,471 in their war chests, according to reports filed with the Alabama […]
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California Electric Car Sales 17.7% Of All New Cars
The California Energy Commission (CEC) released new zero emissions vehicle (ZEV) sales info on Wednesday, showing that 17.7% of all new cars in California have been ZEVs, a rise of 126.9% in ZEV sales since 2020 and climb that ensures that the state will meet their first electric car sale benchmark in four years. While […]
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Biden to release 15M barrels from oil reserve, more possible | #elections | #alabama
By JOSH BOAK and ZEKE MILLER, Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will announce the release of 15 million barrels of oil from the U.S. strategic reserve today as part of a response to recent production cuts announced by OPEC+ nations, and he will say more drawdowns are possible this winter, as his administration […]
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Sixty Years and the Final Leg of the Frying-Pan-Arkansas Project is Funded – by Jan Wondra
It has taken much more than half a century to reach this point, and hopefully only a few more years to finally complete it. Today Colorado’s U.S. Senators Michel Bennet and John Hickenlooper joined officials representing the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District Board to celebrate the announcement of $60 million in new funds from the […]
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FiveThirtyEight sours on House Democrats’ chances in Calif.
California Reps. David Valadao and Mike Garcia, two Republicans running for reelection in the U.S. House, are now favored to win their respective races again, according to the latest forecast from FiveThirtyEight, a multi-award-winning political opinion poll. Both races, which initially favored the Republican candidates but had been trending blue for weeks, switched back to […]
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Republican U.S. House candidates in Alaska continue to attack each other while urging voters to ‘rank the red’ | #alaska | #politics
Former Gov. Sarah Palin speaks at a rally Sunday at the Dena’ina Convention Center on October 9, 2022. (Marc Lester / ADN) In Alaska’s U.S. House race, the two Republican candidates are urging their supporters to “rank the red” even as they continue to attack each other, in an effort to unseat newly elected Democrat […]
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Morgantown High School holds mock city council meeting | #citycouncil
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WBOY) – Morgantown’s City Council regularly holds meetings every first and third Tuesday of the month, but this week the council chambers featured some young and potential future members of local government. Students at Morgantown High School experienced their own mock City Council meeting at the Morgantown Public Safety Building. Students played different […]
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California Expands the CFRA To Include Bereavement Leave | Perkins Coie
As part of more than 100 new pieces of legislation, on September 29, 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 1949. Effective January 1, 2023, AB 1949 adds section 12945.7 to the Government Code to require employers with more than five employees to provide eligible employees with five days of unpaid bereavement leave. Existing law […]
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