Will the Shreveport City Council vote to allow smoking in casinos again? | #citycouncil
FILE – This March 28, 2019 photo shows cigarette butts in an ashtray in New York. On Tuesday, March 9, 2021. Lung cancer is the nation’s top cancer killer, causing more than 135,000 deaths each year. Smoking is the chief cause and quitting the best protection. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File) SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Members […]
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Mayor Adams addresses possibly fabricated story about asylum seekers in Orange County
Mayor Adams addresses possibly fabricated story about asylum seekers in Orange County – CBS New York Watch CBS News New York Attorney General Letitia James is looking into claims that veterans were kicked out of a hotel in order to house asylum seekers. CBS2’s Jessica Moore reports. Be the first to know Get browser notifications […]
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NY played a key role in the slave trade, but California’s leading on reparations
New York was a vital cog in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, but it’s California where those pushing for reparations to the descendants of enslaved people are making progress. A task force in California has proposed a series of recommendations for compensating descendants of the formerly enslaved, including cash payments that could top $1 million, for […]
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Missouri bank opens 2nd Arkansas branch
Missouri-based Sterling Bank, a $1.37 billion-asset lender headquartered in Poplar Bluff, opened a new, 16,000-square-foot facility in Rogers at 1101 S. 52nd St. on March 23. Sterling Bank is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sterling Bancshares Inc. The company entered the Arkansas market in 2020 by opening a loan production office at 1607 N. College Ave. […]
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Budget hearing comes before Asheville Council May 23 | #citycouncil
After a public survey, half a dozen work sessions and hours of discussion and public comment, this year’s Asheville city budget process is on its final lap. During their meeting of Tuesday, May 23, members of Asheville City Council will conduct a public hearing on City Manager Debra Campbell’s $239.7 million proposed operating budget for […]
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Transcript: Mayor Adams Appears Live on MSNBC’S “The Sunday Show With Jonathan Capehart”
May 21, 2023 Jonathan Capehart: The migrant crisis at the southern border is having a profound impact on cities thousands of miles away. In New York City officials report that in the past year, the city has welcomed more than 60,000 asylum seeking migrants, more than 4,200 arrived just in the past week. Thousands of […]
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DC Black Pride Returns In Full Force for 2023 | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Black Pride Opening Reception 2019 – File Photo: Ward Morrison READ THIS STORY IN THE MAGAZINE “I tell folks that some of us work at the intersectionality of Black and queer, or Black and gay. So everything we do is in that vein, where we are actually creating spaces for us to be able to […]
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Mobile City Council authorizes $34 million in funds for civic center | #citycouncil
On Tuesday, the Mobile City Council appropriated $40.5 million in city funds for capital projects around the city, the majority being $34 million for the Mobile Civic Center. The lion share of the civic center funds was $29 million, which will go to construction of a parking facility on the civic center site. The parking […]
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Transcript: Mayor Adams Appears on CBS’ “Face the Nation”
May 21, 2023 Margaret Brennan: We go now to New York City and its Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat. Mr. Mayor, good morning to you. Mayor Eric Adams: Good morning to you as well. Brennan: You said that the president and the White House have failed New York City and that you don’t have access to […]
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Alabama’s first woman governor: Lurleen Wallace | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Kay Ivey is Alabama’s second female governor. Lurleen Wallace was the first. Appropriately, Kay Ivey’s idol and impetus for striving to be governor was Lurleen Wallace. Kay’s first involvement in state politics was as a campaign worker for Governor Lurleen’s 1966 race for governor when Kay Ivey was a student at Auburn. It was 55 […]
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