Day: December 2, 2023

City Council

Not even close: How Longmont rejected three ballot issues | #citycouncil

From left: Marcia Kosar opens a box of ballots as Robin Allegra places them in trays before heading to the sorting and signature capture machine at the Ballot Processing Center at the Clerk and Recorders Office in Boulder on Nov. 6. (Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer) Voters in one specific area or another of Longmont did not […]

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Mayor

Mayor’s message | Scotts Valley works to make town center a reality – Santa Cruz Sentinel

You may have noticed that a new fence has gone up around the future home of Scotts Valley’s town center off Mount Hermon Road. In November, 1,400 tons of contaminated soil were removed from the site, and with it, one of the reasons the town center hasn’t happened was resolved. The fence serves to protect […]

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California

The unintended consequences of California’s new minimum wage for healthcare workers – Orange County Register

California Governor Gavin Newsom at the Roybal School of Film and Television Production Magnet in Los Angeles on Friday, October 13, 2023. The LAUSD school, which specialized in film and TV production, was celebrating the launch of its second year. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) Senate Bill 525, aimed at raising the […]

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Arkansas

Sarah Huckabee Sanders Appoints Homophobe to Arkansas Library Board

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s latest appointee to the State Library Board is a far-right activist who has claimed “activist teachers … are pushing homosexual pornography on minor children” and wants to defund public libraries that are challenging state censorship. Jason Rapert is a former state senator who ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor last year. […]

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California

Axel Foley’, Indie Feature ‘The Greatest Hits’, And Amazon Prime’s ‘Daisy Jones & The Six’ – Deadline

Prime Video Film Liaisons in California Statewide (FLICS) has announced winners for the 28th annual California on Location Awards (COLAs), presented Friday at the Hilton Los Angeles/Universal City. More than 650 supporters of California-based productions attended this year’s awards ceremony, which recognizes exceptional location managers and teams, public employees, and production companies that help facilitate […]

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City Council

1990 Slidell City Archives Council Ordinances | #citycouncil

1990 ORDINANCES ORD.  # DATE INTRO. BY DESCRIPTION 2296 89-09-1382 1/9/90 JM/BC Authorize Mayor to enter into Inter-Governmental Agreement to lease and manage the Slidell Airport. 2297 89-09-1381 1/23/90 PS/AS bbr Admin Amend Appendix A-Zoning to provide for specific industrial uses in M-1 and M-2 zoning districts. 2298 89-11-1397 1/23/90 RVS/WB by req. Rezone all lots on Camellia Drive in the Palm Lake Subdivision from A-7 […]

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Mayor

Philly Mayor=elect Cherelle Parker takes victory lap in New York

NEW YORK — Philadelphia’s Mayor-elect Cherelle Parker continued her victory lap in New York City this weekend, celebrating alongside a politically powerful union that helped get her there. Bill Sproule, the head of the EAS Regional Council of Carpenters, said from the union’s event near Times Square that his union chose to endorse Parker when […]

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Alabama

Alabama Republican Robert Aderholt explains why he voted to expel George Santos from Congress | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

Former New York Congressman George Santos behaved in “gross unethical conduct” that created an “unprecedented situation” requiring “unprecedented action,” said Republican U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt of Haleyville. Aderholt’s statement was released on Friday, the same day he became the only Alabama Republican to vote in support of expelling Santos from Congress. The expulsion resolution passed […]

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Alaska

Senate Judiciary Committee authorizes subpoenas for Harlan Crow and Leonard Leo in Supreme Court ethics probe | #alaska | #politics

Washington — Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to issue subpoenas to GOP megadonor Harlan Crow and conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo on Thursday, marking a new front in the panel’s investigation into the ethics practices at the Supreme Court. The subpoenas were approved following a contentious meeting in which Republicans accused their Democratic […]

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