Election 2023: San Antonio City Council runoff election results | #citycouncil
SAN ANTONIO — Voters in San Antonio’s City Council runoff elections Saturday were set to choose one — and possibly two — new council members. The District 7 race involved two newcomers, while the District 1 contest pitted an incumbent against a challenger. >> VIEW ELECTION RESULTS PAGE << Here’s a look at all of […]
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Mayor Greenberg and more than 150 volunteers commemorate New Directions Repair Affair’s 30th anniversary
Mayor Greenberg and more than 150 volunteers commemorate New Directions Repair Affair’s 30th anniversary Updated: 7:13 PM EDT Jun 10, 2023 Mayor Craig Greenberg joined New Directions Repair Affair to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Repair Affair Saturday morning. More than 150 volunteers went to multiple low-income senior and disabled homes in Louisville and Southern […]
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Migrants say Florida contractors pushed to get them to board planes to California
Migrants enter a makeshift shelter at Sacred Heart Church in El Paso on Friday after being released by border agents at the Mexico-Texas border. (Ivan Pierre Aguirre / For The Times) María had traveled more than 2,800 miles from Venezuela to reach the United States in early May. Once crossing the border, however, she’d only […]
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes 28th Amendment to the Constitution to combat gun violence
California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed Thursday adding a 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which he said will address the country’s gun violence crisis. The amendment would raise the minimum age to purchase a gun from 18 to 21, mandate universal background checks, institute a reasonable waiting period for all gun purchases and bar civilians […]
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Honolulu City Council passes resolution regarding Red Hill cleanup | Local | #citycouncil
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Sitting down with North Tonawanda’s first openly gay mayor
We are talking about Pride Month this weekend on In Focus. JoDee Kenney was joined by North Tonawanda Mayor Austin Tylec, who took office as the city’s first openly gay mayor at age 29 in 2022. Tylec says the city’s Oliver Street Pride Fest is slated for Sat., June 17, with shops and restaurants downtown […]
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New voting districts could change again in some states before the 2024 elections | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
The 2022 elections marked the first using new voting districts drawn from updated census data. Those districts typically last for a decade, but they could be short-lived in some states. Court challenges could force lawmakers or special commissions to draw yet another set of maps before the 2024 elections for representatives in Congress and state […]
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Federal officials are keeping a close eye on Arkansas’s hasty Medicaid purge
Mike Wickline of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports today on critical comments made by Daniel Tsai, a top Medicaid official in the Biden administration, regarding Arkansas’s push to “unwind” health coverage for tens of thousands of people enrolled in the government-funded insurance program under special pandemic-era rules that have since expired. The state Department of Human […]
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Measures and propositions that have qualified for the California ballot in 2024
(KTXL) — The 2024 general election is still nearly 18 months away, but California’s statewide ballot is starting to get defined, with at least three ballot measures already qualifying. One is an amendment to the California Constitution that was passed by the state Legislature and needs to be approved by the public. The other two […]
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California Bill Would Redefine ‘Infertility’ To Give Men Access to Pregnancy Treatments
California lawmakers are advancing a bill that would redefine the inability of men to get pregnant as “infertility” and entitle them to insurance-covered fertility treatments. The legislation, which passed in the Senate late last month and is about to be taken up by the Assembly, would require employer-sponsored insurance plans to cover in vitro fertilization, […]
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