US Southwest heatwave brings dangerous temperatures to California | Weather News
Officials urge residents to plan for scorching heat and advise against hiking or being outside for long durations. After a historically wet winter and a cloudy spring, California’s summer has been in full swing as a July heatwave brings high temperatures and an increased risk of wildfires to much of the southwest United States. Blistering […]
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For today, racism is bad for the GOP | #elections | #alabama
White nationalists are racists, Sen. Tommy Tuberville suddenly came to realize on Tuesday. That fairly obvious epiphany, unfortunately, didn’t come to Alabama’s senior senator until after he spent some time on Monday evening explaining to CNN anchor and Alabama native Kaitlin Collins that labeling white nationalists as racists was some sort of a Jedi mind […]
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Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders appoints Ken Bragg to Arkansas State Board of Education
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced on Thursday that she has appointed former Arkansas State Representative Ken Bragg to serve on the Arkansas State Board of Education. The appointment marks the governor’s first to the Board of Education. Bragg is set to replace Ouida Newton, and his term will expire on […]
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Another bus of migrants from Texas arrives in Los Angeles
A bus carrying 35 migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas arrived in Los Angeles on Thursday, the third in a series launched by Gov. Greg Abbott and sent to California. Volunteers with the L.A. Welcomes Collective, a network of nonprofit, faith and immigrant rights groups, were waiting along with a representative from the mayor’s […]
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Kansas City’s mayor and city council gave themselves a 15% pay raise — their first in 4 years | KCUR | #citycouncil
Kansas City Council members and Mayor Quinton Lucas marked the final day of the legislative term by voting to give themselves a 15% pay raise. The ordinance passed 11-1, and will take effect Aug. 1, 2023, when many new council members take office. This is the first pay raise for city leaders in four years; […]
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Longmont Mayor Joan Peck to seek re-election
Mayor Joan Peck speaks during a ground breaking ceremony on July 28, 2022. Peck has announced she will be seeking re-election. (Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer) Longmont Mayor Joan Peck made up her mind about whether or not to run for re-election after speaking with family and considering some unfinished business. The verdict? “Yep,” Peck said in […]
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California replaces textbooks canceled by Temecula school board
“Cancel culture has gone too far in Temecula: radicalized zealots on the school board rejected a textbook used by hundreds of thousands of students and now children will begin the school year without the tools they need to learn,” Newsom said in a statement. A spokesperson for the school district could not immediately be reached […]
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Opinion | Party unity is overrated | #elections | #alabama
The Alabama Democratic Party has been feuding. Some say we’re wasting time, arguing with each other when we should be arguing with the Alabama Republican Party. I get it. I, too, wish the argument had been settled already so we could focus our attention on solving Alabama’s very real problems. But I’m not ashamed to […]
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California’s constitution doesn’t recognize same-sex marriage. That could change in November
California voters will have the chance in November to remove language from the state constitution that says marriage is only valid between a man and a woman. After the legislation passed the Senate on Thursday, voters will decide whether to accept ACA 5, introduced by Assemblymember Evan Low, D-Campbell, to remove the language from the […]
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Ken Bragg appointed to Arkansas State Board of Education today – SWARK Today
PRESS RELEASE LITTLE ROCK, Ark. –Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders today announced that she has appointed Former Arkansas State Representative Ken Bragg to serve on the Arkansas State Board of Education. This is Governor Sanders’ first appointment to the Board of Education. Bragg is replacing Ouida Newton, whose term expired, and his term will expire on June 30, 2030. “It […]
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