Comment

City Council

Kern County activist faces 18 felony counts over alleged threats | #citycouncil

A Kern County activist is facing years in jail after authorities charged her with 18 felony counts for allegedly making terrorist threats against the Bakersfield City Council, the latest civic body to be roiled by unrest amid calls for a cease-fire in Gaza. Riddhi Patel, 28, who grew up in Bakersfield and works as the […]

Read More
City Council

City council’s approval of NAH proposal deemed ‘short-sighted’ | #citycouncil

It is difficult to understand how our members of city council could approve the NAH proposal. This seems short-sighted and narrow-minded. This billion dollar project does not come even close to meeting the city’s plan for carbon neutrality by 2030. Token mentions of some solar panels, a few charging stations for EVs and no LEED […]

Read More
City Council

City council called on to put funds toward bike safety | #citycouncil

Gift this article Share this article paywall-free. An open letter to the mayor, vice mayor and Council: Thank you for your unanimous direction to city staff to prioritize funding for a few basic bike projects, namely: the (complete) construction of the Butler Pilot elevation, and the construction of two (dangerous) protected intersections — (Butler/Beaver and […]

Read More
City Council

Huntsville City Council members to vote on moving public comment during meetings | #citycouncil

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) – Huntsville City Council members may move the public comment section of the meeting from the very end of the meeting to near the beginning. It may seem like a small change but it could impact if and how Huntsville leaders hear community members’ voices. Right now, if you want to voice […]

Read More
City Council

City Council seeks public comment on biennial budget | Northwest | #citycouncil

Country United States of AmericaUS Virgin IslandsUnited States Minor Outlying IslandsCanadaMexico, United Mexican StatesBahamas, Commonwealth of theCuba, Republic ofDominican RepublicHaiti, Republic ofJamaicaAfghanistanAlbania, People’s Socialist Republic ofAlgeria, People’s Democratic Republic ofAmerican SamoaAndorra, Principality ofAngola, Republic ofAnguillaAntarctica (the territory South of 60 deg S)Antigua and BarbudaArgentina, Argentine RepublicArmeniaArubaAustralia, Commonwealth ofAustria, Republic ofAzerbaijan, Republic ofBahrain, Kingdom ofBangladesh, People’s […]

Read More
Alabama

Gay marriage has least support in Alabama and Southern states | News | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

MONTGOMERY — New polling released by the Human Rights Campaign  — the nation’s largest civil rights organization — shows that Alabama is among just a few states with less than 50% support for gay marriage rights.   According to the poll of likely voters, only 49% of Alabamians support same-sex marriage, and Arkansas and Mississippi had […]

Read More
Alabama

A lesson from the bridge in Selma, Alabama: Agitate always, invest incessantly | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

A handful of searing images capture the clear moral certainty of the Black civil rights struggle: the Woolworth’s lunch counter protesters being pummelled by white bullyboys in Greensboro, North Carolina, the Memphis, Tennessee balcony of a Blacks-only motel on which Martin Luther King lies dying as his colleagues point in the direction of the shooter, […]

Read More