California cities ditching online comments due to surging hate speech
Anti-semitic comments disrupted the Calabasas City Council meeting on Oct. 25, 2023. (City of Calabasas) LOS ANGELES – It all unraveled in the span of about six minutes. The Calabasas City Council had just begun its scheduled meeting on Oct. 25 and invited residents to weigh in on matters that were not on the formal […]
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Tuberville unmoved by GOP pressure campaign over blockade and dismisses Republican concerns over military readiness | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Jack Gruber/USA Today Network Sen. Tommy Tuberville. a Republican from Alabama, listens during a hearing on September 14, 2023 in Washington, D.C. Republicans who have grown angry at Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s blockade of military nominees had hoped that their new public pressure campaign would force the Alabama Republican to back down. But Tuberville indicated Monday: […]
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In Darien, Election Day is Battle of the Bubbas | #elections | #alabama
DARIEN — As residents here go to the polls on Tuesday, the biggest question won’t be whether to extend a 1% sales tax to support local schools, important though it is. Instead, it’s “Which Bubba?” The mayoral race in this Coastal Georgia town of some 1,460 people pits two Bubbas against each other: Hugh Bubba Hodge […]
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Arkansas Advocate : Arkansas 2024 candidate filing period opens Monday for state, federal offices | Regional News
The 2024 election cycle officially begins in Arkansas on Monday with the week-long candidate filing period. Secretary of State John Thurston plans to open the state Capitol rotunda to candidates at noon Monday. Pomp and circumstance usually rules the first half hour, and some candidates race to be the first filers of the year. In […]
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Mayor Scott vetoes City Council redistricting plan | #citycouncil
Mayor Brandon Scott vetoed City Council President Nick Mosby’s competing plan to rewrite Baltimore district lines Monday, informing the council of his decision just minutes before the council’s last chance to override the decision and ensuring that his own map takes effect. The move to veto the counter proposal prolongs a dispute between the two […]
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Camden County’s Center for Community Nutrition will be named after Lawnside Mayor Mary Ann Wardlow
Wardlow, the longtime mayor of the borough, has been ensuring that seniors are cared for since moving to Lawnside five decades ago. “I have spent more than half my life supporting my town and the community around me,” said Wardlow, adding she got involved because she knew at some point she would become a senior. […]
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California AG releases report prior to Supreme Court gun case
California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Monday released a report on the links between domestic violence and shootings, one day before the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in a case that could restrict the power of federal lawmakers to regulate gun possession nationwide. At the heart of the Supreme Court case, U.S. v. Rahimi, is […]
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‘Aggressive shark behavior’ shuts down California beach
FILE – A whale with shark bite marks washed up on Sunset Beach in Huntington Beach, Calif., near lifeguard tower 22. This file photo was captured on Sept 10, 2015. Chel R. via Yelp LATEST, Nov. 6, 2:40 p.m. A pygmy sperm whale that washed up off Huntington Beach with a shark bite was euthanized at […]
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WSJ, Anchorage Daily News Editorial Boards Support Sullivan-Led Effort to Confirm Military Nominees | #alaska | #politics
11.06.23 WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan’s (R-Alaska) efforts last week to confirm nearly 370 military nominees received support from the Wall Street Journal and Anchorage Daily News Editorial Boards. “Some on the right are unloading on Sen. Sullivan and Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst for disagreeing with a fellow Republican,” the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board wrote. […]
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Alabama can execute inmate with nitrogen gas, court says | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
A divided Alabama Supreme Court said the state can execute an inmate with nitrogen gas, a method that has not previously been used carry out a death sentence. What You Need To Know A divided Alabama Supreme Court has said the state can execute an inmate with nitrogen gas. The method never been used carry out […]
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