Day: November 17, 2023

City Council

Philadelphia City Council looking for people to join Reparations Task Force – NBC10 Philadelphia | #citycouncil

Philadelphia is starting the process of studying what reparations could look like for the city. City Council announced on Friday the new details for the structure of the new Reparations Task Force and is inviting members of the Black community to join. “Until we look into our past with the determination to uncover the entire […]

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California

California Wants to Ban Your Choo-Choo

Gavin Newsom wants to be President, but in some respects the Governor already is, as the Biden Administration lets California impose its climate rules on the other 49 states. In the latest example, the Environmental Protection Agency has green-lighted Sacramento’s plan to outlaw diesel locomotives. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) in April approved a […]

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California

California makes it harder for schools, farms and…

California regulators have ordered changes to the state’s shared-solar programs that critics say will ruin the economics of rooftop solar on apartment buildings, schools and farms across much of the state. And while the new regulations approved by the California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday have been modified from the rules proposed earlier this year to […]

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Mayor

Houston Mayor’s 2016 beef with KPRC 2′s Amy Davis

HOUSTON – A tense moment between KPRC 2 Investigates’ Amy Davis and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner over the city’s water billing and infrastructure problems has gone viral. We’ve gotten a lot of comments and questions about what Mayor Turner was referring to in his comments on Nov. 15. Mayor Sylvester Turner: You are very rude […]

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California

California Urban Fire: Gavin Newsom’s Third-World Governance

A highway fire near a homeless encampment shows more third-world incompetence on the part of California’s government. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE {L} ast Saturday, an early-morning blaze near a Los Angeles homeless encampment quickly engulfed the I-10 freeway. It burned with such intensity that it closed one of the nation’s busiest interstates, the primary route linking […]

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Arkansas

Central Arkansas school district drops library’s digital learning tools, citing lack of ‘filter’

More than 11,000 Pulaski County students are unable to access online educational materials through their local public library as a legal precaution, according to school district administrators, in light of the statewide debate over what content children should be able to access in libraries. The Pulaski County Special School District, which covers the rest of […]

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City Council

Salinas City Council will not change cannabis ordinance | #citycouncil

Salinas City Council will not change cannabis ordinance Updated: 2:49 PM PST Nov 17, 2023 Salinas will not be seeing more dispensaries in city limits any time soon. At Tuesday night’s city council meeting, leaders took no action on recommendations to increase the number of permits for dispensaries. They also took no action to decrease […]

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Mayor

Salisbury elects Randy Taylor as new mayor

SALISBURY, Md. – Friday, Randy Taylor learned he will be the next mayor of Salisbury; winning by a slim margin of only 50 votes ahead of opponent, Megan Outten. With the race finally coming to a close, Taylor said he’ll begin strategizing his plans for the city. “It’s been a long week, waiting for these […]

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California

California High-Speed Rail and Burbank Airport agree to settle lawsuit, work together on construction

The Hollywood Burbank Airport is seen in a file photo from 2003. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) The California High-Speed Rail Authority and the agency that represents the Hollywood Burbank Airport have reached an agreement that dismisses a lawsuit filed against the high-speed rail project on behalf of the airport authority. The Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority filed the […]

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Alabama

Your vote, your freedom, your future | #elections | #alabama

This is a guest opinion A few weeks ago, special run-off elections were held to fill vacant seats in the Alabama Legislature for House Districts 55 and 16. The combined average for voter turnout in these two districts was a dismal 9.11 percent. Let that sink in for a moment. Of the 66,860 eligible voters […]

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