Governor Newsom Announces Appointments 12.13.22
SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the following appointments: Mark M. Tollefson, 40, of Rancho Cordova, has been appointed Undersecretary at the California State Transportation Agency. Tollefson serves as Senior Counselor on Infrastructure and Fiscal Affairs in the Office of Governor Gavin Newsom, where he has been a Deputy Cabinet Secretary since 2019. Tollefson […]
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Pittsburgh City Council makes several changes to city’s proposed budgets | #citycouncil
Pittsburgh City Council made a series of changes Tuesday to its proposed 2023 budgets, including amendments to refund the Land Bank, keep the city’s cable bureau and print shop out of the mayor’s office and nix plans for several new positions. Council preliminarily voted to move $4 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding from […]
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Nancy Dahlstrom has spent most of her 20-year political career out of the spotlight. Now she’s second in command. | #alaska | #politics
Lieutenant Governor Nancy Dahlstrom on Dec. 9, 2022. (Elyssa Loughlin/Alaska Public Media) Nancy Dahlstrom’s entry into politics was an unusual one. In 2002 she challenged then-Rep. Lisa Murkowski for a state House seat encompassing part of Eagle River and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. Dahlstrom, a Republican, ran to Murkowski’s right, and lost. A year later, Gov. […]
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Who’s In, Who May Still Run – NBC Chicago
With the midterm elections rapidly receding into the rearview mirror, the 2023 Chicago mayoral election is looming in the distance, with 11 candidates currently vying for the position. Highlighting the list is Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who will seek a second term in office. She has drawn a number of challengers in this year’s race, including […]
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19 GOP-led states ask appeals court to delay end of Title 42 border restrictions | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Washington — Nineteen Republican-controlled states filed an emergency legal request late Monday to try to delay the termination of pandemic-related restrictions that have allowed U.S. border authorities to swiftly turn away certain migrants on public health grounds. A coalition of Republican attorneys general asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit […]
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McConnell blames Trump for ‘candidate quality’ issues in midterms | #elections | #alabama
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) on Tuesday blamed the power former President Trump exerted in GOP primaries for the “candidate quality” issues his party struggled with in key races. Speaking to reporters a week after Republicans lost the Senate runoff in Georgia, which expanded the Senate Democratic majority to 51 seats, McConnell said his […]
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California group begins development of 2 industrial pellet plants
Golden State Natural Resources, a California-based nonprofit public benefit corporation, is developing two industrial wood pellet projects within the state as part of its effort to increase forest resiliency and reduce the risk of catastrophic forest fires. GSNR has purchased sites in Tuolumne County and Lassen County to develop the proposed projects. The planned […]
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Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality and Hot Springs Retreat Center Enter into Consent Administrative Order | Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, P.L.L.C.
Download PDF The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Arkansas District Council of the Assemblies of God (“District Council”) entered into a November 21st Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (“NPDES”) permit. See LIS No. 22-113. The […]
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How ‘historic’ UC strikes could ignite a new labor movement in California
On the first day of the University of California strikes, Jason Rabinowitz threw on his black satin Teamsters jacket and made his way to UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza, a brick-patterned square long known as a center of student activism and, on that morning, a gathering place for the thousands of academic workers who had just […]
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Yelm City Council Discusses YMCA During Study Session | #citycouncil
By Jacob Dimond / jake@yelmonline.com During the Yelm City Council’s study session on Tuesday, Dec. 6, Mayor Joe DePinto provided an update about a potential YMCA location in the city, which would provide residents with a long awaited pool. DePinto said there have been discussions about a potential YMCA at different Yelm City Council meetings throughout […]
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