Day: December 18, 2022

City Council

Council purchases replacements for 5 park bathrooms | #citycouncil

Brand new bathrooms are coming soon to a Lubbock park near you. During a recent regular meeting, the Lubbock City Council moved forward with an ongoing plan to improve parks infrastructure by approving five purchase orders with Dallas-based CXT, Inc. to “manufacture, transport, deliver, and install five concrete restroom buildings at five City of Lubbock parks.” […]

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Mayor

NYC Mayor Eric Adams calls for federal, state help after Title 42 ends

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is warning that the city is expected to receive over 1,000 asylum-seekers each week, with Title 42 set to be lifted on Wednesday. Although he does not say what authority has warned of the incoming surge of migrants, he said that NYC would see more people entering the shelter […]

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Arkansas

Asa Hutchinson will make 2024 presidential decision ‘the first part of next year’

Washington CNN  —  Arkansas Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson says he will decide in “the first part of next year” if he wants to mount a campaign for president in 2024. “The fact that President [Donald] Trump has already announced accelerates everyone’s time frame,” Hutchinson told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “So the first quarter […]

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City Council

Westfield City Council approves labor contract with police patrol officers | #citycouncil

WESTFIELD — After a year of negotiations and arbitration, the City Council last week approved the recently signed Westfield Patrol Officers Coalition Succession Agreement for July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2025. In presenting it to the council on Dec. 15 for a vote, Councilor Brent Bean II said the agreement had originally been signed […]

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Mayor

Atlanta shootings have left 4 children dead in a 3-week span. Mayor says this is an unacceptable trend

CNN  —  In the span of three weeks, shootings in Atlanta have killed four children between the ages of 11 and 16, and Mayor Andre Dickens said Sunday the recent trend is unacceptable. “A week before Christmas, families should be preparing to celebrate,” Dickens wrote in a statement. “Instead, we have parents in Atlanta doing […]

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Alabama

Sample ballots for the August 23, 2022 municipal elections in Huntsville, Scottsboro | #elections | #alabama

NORTH ALABAMA (WHNT) — Voters in Huntsville and Scottsboro will head to the polls on Tuesday to elect their next city leaders. The election will be held on Tuesday, August 23, 2022. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Which countries are the biggest sources of immigrants to Alabama? WHNT News 19 […]

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City Council

Federal judge expected to rule on city council, school board redistricting proposal this week | #citycouncil

A federal judge is expected to decide the future of the county’s redistricting maps on Monday. Right now, it remains up in the air how Duval County districts will be drawn. This decision will have a big impact on whether Jacksonville will lean Republican or Democrat. The redistricting maps will also impact how school board […]

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Mayor

Mayor Karen Bass to light menorah at citywide Hanukkah ceremony

Mayor Karen Bass and several other city officials are scheduled to celebrate the beginning of Hanukkah on Sunday, lighting the menorah at sundown at a citywide ceremony on L.A.’s Westside. The ceremony, which is scheduled to begin at 4:45 p.m., will be held on Pico Boulevard between Doheny and Wetherly drives. The lighting is part […]

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Alaska

As eligibility trial continues, Eastman defense resembles prior Oath Keepers hearings | #alaska | #politics

By James Brooks, Alaska Beacon Updated: 2 hours ago Published: 4 hours ago In this Alaska Court System screenshot, Rep. David Eastman, R-Wasilla, takes the witness stand (bottom left window) on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022, during his legislative eligibility trial in Palmer. (Screenshot) As Alaska Rep. David Eastman defends himself against a lawsuit claiming that […]

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Alabama

A Supreme Court Case That Threatens the Mechanisms of Democracy | #elections | #alabama

Before last month’s midterm election, progressives—and centrists, and socialists, and anyone, really, who thought that it was a bad idea to put election deniers in charge of state elections—braced for a red wave. When it didn’t hit, many of those people, for a moment, felt something like relief. And yet, for anyone inclined to commemorate […]

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