Central Park 5 exoneree and council member says police stopped him without giving a reason | #citycouncil
But after Salaam identifies himself as a council member and asks if everything is OK, the officer quickly withdraws without providing further explanation for the stop. What Salaam says next is inaudible. Police later said in a statement that Salaam was stopped for driving with a dark tint beyond legal limits. The police officer conducted […]
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On affordable housing in Lincoln and where the mayor’s focus on climate change took her
Hope Community Church, 4700 S. Folsom St., would be mostly surrounded by the Foxtail Meadows’ development. The church collaborated in the design of the proposal. JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star file photo Jake Hoppe, an affordable housing developer, promoted a new model his company is working on in Lincoln and two other Nebraska communities during a […]
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Kellyanne Conway to headline Alabama GOP Winter Dinner | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Conservative political consultant Kellyanne Conway will be the keynote speaker next month at the Alabama Republican Party’s Winter Dinner in Birmingham, the party announced Thursday evening. Held at the Birmingham Sheraton Hotel, the event is scheduled for February 9 at 7 p.m., with individual tickets priced at $150 a piece. Sponsorship packages range from $2,500 […]
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Snowboarder spends 15 hours trapped in California ski resort gondola
A snowboarder who was reported missing in California on Thursday was found the morning after spending 15 hours trapped in a ski resort’s gondola, amid freezing temperatures. The Associated Press reported that Monica Laso was riding at Heavenly Ski Resort on Thursday and became too tired to ride down the mountain. Instead, Laso decided to […]
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State of the State 2024: Arkansas’ education system in flux
Editor’s note: The State of the State series provides reports twice a year on Arkansas’ key economic sectors. The series publishes stories to begin a year and stories in July/August to provide a broad mid-year update on the state’s economy. Link here for the State of the State page and previous stories. With details of […]
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Arkansas group looking to legalize abortion one step closer to the ballot
Earlier this week the Attorney General’s office approved a referendum by “Arkansans for Limited Government” to change the state’s abortion law. The group must get more than 90,000 signatures to get the amendment onto the ballot in November 2024. “The ball was in the AGs. Court for a long time, and they kicked it over […]
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After NYPD cops pull over Yusef Salaam, allies focus on reason for stop | #citycouncil
Yusef Salaam speaks during a news interview while getting petition signatures for his campaign for New York City Council’s 9th District, March 1, 2023, in New York. (AP) Several participants on a group phone call with City Councilman Yusef Salaam backed up his assertion that he asked a police officer who stopped him in Harlem […]
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Opinion: The ‘Mayor of Woodland Hills’ Is Arrested Over a Wayward Shopping Cart
The shopping cart used by the Mayor of Woodland Hills. Photo by Stephen Cooper Bleach-blonde with a tanned glow and unnaturally long fingernails, the woman glared at the police through gold-rimmed sunglasses. She’d just left a hair salon, walking out the door to “Love ya, babe,” “Be good, beautiful,” and so forth — goodwill earned […]
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Snowboarder spends 15 hours trapped in ski gondola in California
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — A snowboarder spent 15 hours trapped overnight inside a ski lift gondola amid freezing temperatures at a Lake Tahoe resort, according to officials and media reports. Monica Laso boarded the gondola around 5pm Thursday at Heavenly Ski Resort to ride down the mountain because she was too tired to […]
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Will Bay Area Cities Defy Newsom?
It’s put-up-or-shut-up time for dozens of cities across the San Francisco Bay Area. Last January, local governments across the region were required to submit Housing Elements to state regulators—future development blueprints that spell out how each jurisdiction intends to make room for its share of the more than 2.5 million new homes the Newsom administration wants to […]
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