Mudslides, floods strike parts of California following storm
An intense storm continues to tear through drought-stricken California, bringing an onslaught of rain, floods, mudslides and power outages to areas all throughout the state. The National Weather Service issued a flood watch for a large portion of Central California as a result. According to forecasts, most of the precipitation is expected to fall by Tuesday night. […]
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City Council president seeks review of Judge Caprio’s TV show ‘Caught in Providence’ | #citycouncil
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – The new president of the Providence City Council has asked the city’s top lawyer to review Providence Municipal Court Chief Judge Frank Caprio’s reality show “Caught in Providence,” amid questions about his future and connections with the program. Council President Rachel Miller sent a letter to City Solicitor Jeff Dana on […]
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Midland introduces their newly elected Mayor
MIDLAND, Texas (KOSA) -Today, the City of Midland introduced Lori Blong as the newly elected Mayor and is the first female mayor for the “Tall City”. Lori Blong has served as a city council member for the last three years and over that time has led Midland through the Covid Pandemic while improving essential city […]
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In a dysfunctional family setting, Marjorie Taylor Greene prevails – SaportaReport | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
By Tom Baxter Last week we got to see the U.S. House of Representatives not as two warring factions of idealists — which is the way they pitch themselves to the suckers they raise money from online — but as one enormous, dysfunctional family stuck in the same room together. They could have been waiting […]
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Montecito residents told to flee deadly downpour
California is still reeling from last week’s severe weather California’s elite coastal enclave of Montecito has been ordered to evacuate amid a major storm that has landed most of the state under flood watch. Heavy rain was lashing the community near Santa Barbara, home to celebrities such as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex – […]
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Big names produce Gator Bowl win for Amelia Island tourism | #elections | #alabama
If you want a glimpse on the inner workings of the media behemoth that is college football and Disney-owned ESPN, a recent meeting on Nassau County tourism cast light on the subject. In times gone by, it would be a newsworthy event when a man wearing a sport coat, emblazoned with a bowl game logo, […]
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Arkansas lawmakers say education top issue as session starts
Photo: Arkansas lawmakers gather in the House of Representatives chamber at the state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark. on Monday, Jan. 9, 2023. The state Legislature convened for the first day of the 2023 session, a day before Sarah Huckabee Sanders was set to be sworn in as the state’s 47th governor. (AP Photo/Andrew DeMillo) […]
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Everyone in California’s Montecito ordered out amid deluge
Rain-weary Californians grappled with flooding and mudslides Monday as the latest in a series of powerful storms walloped the state, prompting widespread evacuations, toppling trees and frustrating motorists who hit roadblocks caused by fallen debris. Tens of thousands of people remained without power, and some schools closed for the day. An evacuation order for the […]
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California: Entire community of Montecito ordered to evacuate as storms continue to batter state | US News
The entire community of Montecito and surrounding canyons have been ordered to evacuate after California was hits by severe storms. The evacuation order, affecting about 10,000 people, came on the fifth anniversary of a mudslide that killed 23 and destroyed more than 100 homes in the coastal enclave. Montecito is home to a host of […]
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City Council hears presentation on COVID-19 aid money, flood plans | News | #citycouncil
Star file photo At its Jan. 3 meeting, San Marcos City Council received a staff presentation about the reallocation of COVID-19 response money into new programs for COVID-19 issues. The Community Development Block Grant-Entitlement (CDBG) is a program that provides grants to communities to develop areas. San Marcos has $188,443 from CDBG to reallocate to […]
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