SLC Mayor Erin Mendenhall nearly swept Rocky Anderson, precinct voter data shows
The incumbent mayor captured all but a few precincts of Utah’s capital, but those areas face some of the city’s most nagging problems. (Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Mayor Erin Mendenhall walks out to speak at an election watch party in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023. She carried 130 of […]
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The Point, Dec. 18, 2023: First Black, female mayor of Micanopy reflects on first months in office
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Subscribe to The Point, arriving in your inbox Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. • WUFT News: Unity and infrastructure focus of Micanopy Mayor Jiana Williams’s first months in office. “As the first Black, female mayor of Micanopy, Jiana Williams, 37, often thinks about what her late grandmother, Willie Mae Stokes who used to clean houses […]
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City Council may consider district boundary changes | #citycouncil
FLORENCE, S.C. – Florence has redrawn its City Council district maps based on the results of the 2020 census. Monday, the City Council is expected to consider staying with the current district boundaries or changing them. The City Council will meet at 1 p.m. Monday in the council chambers at the City Center, 324 W. […]
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Arkansas lawmaker wants to ban TikTok on state-owned devices | Arkansas
(The Center Square) – Arkansas Sen. Gary Stubblefield, R-Branch, has filed a bill to ban the social media app TikTok from state-owned social media devices. Members of both political parties have scrutinized TikTok for its possible ties to the Chinese Communist Party. “Christopher Wray, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has warned that the data collection […]
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Arkansas data shows “long-COVID” effects may be bigger concern than transmission
HARRISON, Ark. (KY3) – For over three months, Arkansas’ active COVID-19 cases continued to be on a steady decline, and hospitalizations have seen slight periodic increases, according to the state Department of Health (ADOH). Monday, the ADOH reported it is seeing less than 300 new cases weekly statewide, compared to 8,000-plus new cases reported weekly […]
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Data shows Arkansas is improving Narcan access
HARRISON, Ark. (KY3) – Arkansas has made progress in addressing the opioid overdose epidemic by expanding access to the overdose-reversal drug naloxone, the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement said Wednesday. The Arkansas Center for Health Improvement (ACHI) shows that 4,848 people received Naloxone prescriptions in 2021. It rose from 86 in the fiscal year 2017. […]
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Mayor says privatizing sanitation effort ‘disappointing’ | News
Barely six months into the transition, Georgetown Mayor Tom Prather says the city’s transition to privatizing garbage collection has been “disappointing.” The private carrier, Republic Services has been slow to respond to complaints and concerns and initially and has not shown the initiative to correct ongoing issues, the mayor said. “I am frustrated, not only […]
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