City council honors Omaha’s ‘Godfather of Baseball’ | #citycouncil
The city council honored the “Godfather of Baseball” in south Omaha during Tuesday’s meeting.Council members approved a proclamation designating Dec. 9 as John Stella Day. “Your dad was great … he touched so many lives in south Omaha in the community of baseball,” councilmember Danny Begley said.Stella’s grandsons were there as the proclamation was read.Begley […]
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Chicago Mayor Johnson reverses council public seating plan
Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday shelved the city’s new policy curtailing public audience seating in City Council chambers, following outcry over the chilling effect the restrictions could pose on the openness of government proceedings. The city clerk’s website abruptly removed guidelines that had been posted since last week and replaced the link with the message, […]
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Fact checking the December GOP debate | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
CNN — Four of the Republican presidential candidates made a variety of false, misleading or lacking-in-context claims on Wednesday during the fourth debate of the 2024 party primary. Former President Donald Trump did not participate in the debate. Here is a fact check of some of the claims from the candidates – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, […]
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Arkansas farmers must euthanize over 1 million chickens
Northwest Arkansas farmers are euthanizing over a million chickens after a poultry company closed its chicken processing plants.Cooks Venture, based in Decatur, shut down in late November. That left farmers with over 1 million chickens and no where to send them for processing.State Senator Bryan King of Green Forrest asked Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders for […]
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Census data show shifting Hispanic populations in California
Based on new data analyzed by the San Francisco Chronicle, the U.S. census shows that Hispanic populations are shifting throughout California and have doubled between 2010 and 2020. The data look at how the Hispanic population is diversifying throughout the state and has gone through transformations affecting multiple aspects of the economy, including the workforce […]
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California’s Golden Goose, Grounded | City Journal
During his much-touted recent debate with Florida governor Ron DeSantis, California governor Gavin Newsom described his state’s economy as without “peers,” claimed that business is “booming” in the U.S. under President Biden, and argued that his state’s steeply progressive tax regime was fairer than Florida’s “regressive” lower and flatter scheme. Not even 24 hours later, however, the […]
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Yonkers City Council expected to approve pay raises for council members and the mayor | #citycouncil
Dec 12, 2023, 10:18pmUpdated 12m ago The Yonkers City Council is scheduled to vote on Tuesday evening on a pair of bills that would increase the annual salary for all six council members, the council president and the mayor. The change would bring his current $156,000 salary to $228,000 and include a more than $70,000 […]
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Portsmouth’s vice mayor announces plans to run for mayor
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Portsmouth’s mayoral election is a little less than a year away, but one familiar face has already announced she will be joining the race. Portsmouth Vice Mayor Lisa Lucas-Burke told supporters she plans to leave her current city council position and instead join the mayoral race for 2024. She is the first […]
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Commission recommends design for ‘monument to the unborn’ at Arkansas Capitol
A panel on Tuesday voted to recommend a living wall of flora and fauna be constructed on the Arkansas Capitol grounds as a “monument to the unborn” in accordance with a new state law. Approved by the Legislature in March, Act 310 authorizes the secretary of state to decide where to place “a suitable monument […]
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Bradley adds Breeze flights to Orlando, Orange County, California
WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. — Low-cost carrier Breeze Airways will launch nonstop seasonal service between Bradley International Airport and Orlando International Airport three times a week. Breeze will offer service between Bradley — the airport for the Springfield-Hartford area — and John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, California. The flight will operate five days a week […]
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