Day: July 30, 2023

City Council

Amarillo City Council to Consider Spending $5.1 Million — The Amarillo Pioneer | #citycouncil

Amarillo City Council is set to consider just over $5.1 million in spending items during their next regular election, scheduled for Tuesday, August 1st. The most expensive item on the agenda is item 8N, which is consideration of a $1.6 million purchase of 9 heavy-duty trucks from Premier Truck Group and Roberts Truck Center. Close […]

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Mayor

How much will Denver mayor’s homelessness plan cost?

Mayor Mike Johnston’s ambitious plan to address homelessness is beginning to take shape, though there is still uncertainty about the cost. On Friday, the Denver Housing Authority announced its commissioners had approved plans to purchase the Best Western hotel near I-70 and Quebec in Central Park for $26 million. The City plans to convert the […]

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California

California forbids most workplaces from banning masks • Long Beach Post News

CalMatters is a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom committed to explaining California policy and politics. For at least another year and a half, California employers won’t be able to follow In-N-Out’s lead in banning workers from wearing masks on the job. The state’s COVID-19 workplace rules protecting workers’ rights to decide for themselves whether to wear face coverings […]

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Arkansas

Arkansas Democrats approve lower filing fee for legislative candidates in 2024

WEST MEMPHIS — The Arkansas Democratic Party’s state committee on Saturday approved lower filing fees for candidates running for seats in the state Legislature in 2024 in an effort to get more people to run. For candidates who are not incumbents and are running for seats not held by or being vacated by Democrats, the […]

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California

Little has changed in Half Moon Bay six months after mass shooting

In the wake of the Jan. 6 riots, intensifying global conflicts and a pandemic that killed millions, perhaps your food was the last thing you felt you could control. Grabbing a paper bag of pristine chanterelles at the farmer’s market might have felt like the least fraught thing a person could do. That was until […]

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City Council

Questions on affordable housing enter City Council debate on stadium development | #citycouncil

CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – The need for affordable housing was at the center of a recent City Council debate over the Vulcan Mixed Use and Entertainment District. The development was brought forward by Charles Hand and his family, who are looking to rezone around 30 acres of land from General Industrial District (M-2) to […]

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Mayor

Former mayor drops lawsuit against Burley concerning temple water and sewer agreement | Local

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Alabama

GOP leaders strike out on getting Tuberville to bend | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

Senate GOP leaders didn’t want it to get to this point. They tried and tried to get Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) to lift the holds he’s placed on hundreds of military promotions — which have opened Republicans up to attacks from the Biden administration.  But their efforts have failed, and they are now in a […]

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California

Something is wrong with state’s homelessness spending – Marin Independent Journal

Clusters of tents belonging to homeless residents line the banks of Coyote Creek near Tully Road on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, in San Jose, Calif. A ruthless winter storm bore down on the Bay Area and Northern California on Wednesday, prompting emergency proclamations, school closures and multiple hazard warnings of potential flooding, debris flows and severe winds. […]

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California

Homeless Camps Are Being Cleared in California. What Happens Next?

John Janosko recently moved into a tiny cabin in Oakland, Calif., after the city and the state shut down the sprawling homeless encampment where he had resided for most of the past eight years. City officials consider the shed-size unit — with a bed, a folding chair, a desk and a mini fridge — a […]

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