Detroit council member says Jeep plant still has odor issue | #citycouncil
A Detroit City Council member wants Stellantis officials to appear before council to explain why residents are continuing to smell noxious odors from one of the company’s Jeep plants on the east side despite a reported fix for the issue. Friday’s announcement from Council Member Latisha Johnson, who represents District 4, comes less than three […]
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Seating for NYC Mayor Adams’ Staten Island town hall filled in 4 days
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — It seems Staten Islanders want the ear of Mayor Eric Adams. Seating for a Monday town hall event at Curtis High School, 105 Hamilton Ave., St. George took just four days to reach the 250-person capacity, a City Hall spokesperson said. Friday. RSVPs for the event opened July 7 and closed […]
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Arkansas neighborhood comes together to clean up tornado damage
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — It’s been almost four months since a tornado in Central Arkansas damaged hundreds of homes and businesses. Some areas, like Walnut Valley in West Little Rock, are still cleaning up the March tornado’s aftermath. On Saturday, the whole community of Walnut Valley rallied together to clean up a park, cutting weeds […]
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Heat wave could push temperatures as high as 130 degrees this weekend
CNN — An already dangerous weekslong heat wave will only worsen this weekend as a heat dome intensifies and reaches peak strength over parts of the Western United States. The heat dome is so formidable the National Weather Service in Phoenix called it “one of the strongest high pressure systems this region has ever seen.” […]
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Triad City Beat | Winston-Salem city council selects a new city manager, despite differing preferences | #citycouncil
These republishing rules DO NOT apply to all of our content. The CityBeat is a nonprofit-funded position that specifically reports on city council business in Winston-Salem and Greensboro. You are free to republish all content from the CityBeat under the following conditions: Featured photo: William Patrick Pate is Winston-Salem’s new city manager (courtesy photo) On […]
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Chattanooga native Mrs. Universe Juanita Brown Ingram receives proclamation from city mayor
Reigning Mrs. Universe Juanita Brown Ingram received a proclamation signed by Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly on Friday that recognizes her accomplishments and contributions to the community. Ingram, a native of Chattanooga, won the title of Mrs. Universe representing Singapore, the country in which she resides, at the pageant’s 2022-23 ceremony in Miami Beach, Florida, becoming […]
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Trial over Alabama transgender care ban for minors delayed until 2024 | Elections Ap | #elections | #alabama
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Drama on child trafficking bill
There’s policy, then there’s politics. That played out Thursday in some high drama at the Legislature — during its last day before a month-long summer vacation — as lawmakers resuscitated a contentious criminal justice bill. Assembly Republicans tried to force a floor vote on the bill — which won unanimous approval in the state Senate […]
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I’m ‘the symbol of black manhood’
Metro By Rich Calder July 15, 2023 | 10:42am Mayor Eric Adams declared himself “the symbol of black manhood in this city, in this country” during a speech last week at a Brooklyn church, where he again defended his outsized reaction to a 84-year-old Holocaust survivor who dared to question him at a community forum. […]
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Park Rapids City Council denies fire fee waiver – Park Rapids Enterprise | #citycouncil
The Park Rapids City Council on Tuesday, July 11 denied a landscape contractor’s request to waive the $500 fee for a fire department response. At the council’s June 27 meeting, Shannon Henrickson with Touch of Eden Landscaping described a situation arising after a controlled burn on a client’s property, where the earth had been turned […]
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