Anti-democracy obstinance in Alabama and Wisconsin. | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
By the Editorial Board The determination of too many elected Republicans around the country to hold power by any underhanded means necessary has been demonstrated with distressing clarity recently — and not just on Jan. 6, 2021. Two more recent examples, both involving the judiciary, drive home what should be an alarming message to Americans […]
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Mayor faces massive task | News, Sports, Jobs
Apart from the lunacy of blaming the Lahaina fire on lasers shot from space, the most absurd thing we have heard in the natural disaster’s wake is the call for Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen to resign due to lack of transparency. Our island faces its biggest crisis in modern history and they would have […]
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Concannon and Galvin move on to final election for Mayor’s position | Daily Times Chronicle
Will square off against incumbent Mayor Scott Galvin on Nov. 7… Concannon emerges from Tuesday’s preliminary as mayoral front-runner By PATRICK BLAIS WOBURN – City Council President Michael Concannon topped the ticket in yesterday’s preliminary election and finished the night with a commanding 776 ballot lead over sitting Mayor Scott Galvin. With the preliminary […]
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Sentinel opinion: Make a choice; City council must at least winnow downtown project plans to two clear options | Editorial | #citycouncil
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Fort Dodge City Council must increase police force | News, Sports, Jobs | #citycouncil
Ensuring the public safety is the most important role of a city government, and having a good police force is one of the key tools for fulfilling that role. A city ought to have a police force that is large enough to project a presence that will not only catch criminals, but deter them from […]
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Mayor Eric Adams’ nuclear option would save NYC billions in retiree healthcare costs
New York City is needlessly losing $50 million a month meeting its obligation to cover retired municipal workers’ health-care costs; most unions are on board with a plan that would save that cash while giving each retiree options. But because the City Council refuses to allow it, City Hall has no choice but to unilaterally […]
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City Council move to ban solitary would be a disaster | #citycouncil
City Council progressives are moving to ban solitary confinement at Rikers and other city jails — guaranteeing more violence, chaos and suffering. Worse, the move has supermajority backing, so would likely survive a mayoral veto. The council hearing on the issue (and rallies around it) invoked all the usual claims that solitary is purely a […]
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Mayor Eric Adams needs to reward competence, now that Frank Carone is exiting
Frank Carone is leaving as Mayor Eric Adams’ chief of staff at the end of December — a move that should prompt the mayor to start upping his staff’s game now. In his rookie year, Adams’ agenda in Albany stalled on multiple key fronts. Above all, the Legislature refused to make real criminal-justice fixes, badly […]
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Mayor Adams needs to reverse the spike in emergency response times
Mayor Eric Adams needs to get ahead of another grim trend in public safety: the rise in response times to crimes, fires and medical emergencies. The latest Mayor’s Management Report (covering six months under the last mayor and six under the new) exposed serious upticks in response times to armed robberies, burglaries and other “critical […]
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Hochul again sells out Adams, NYC’s schoolchildren to serve her own interests
After weeks of hemming and hawing, Gov. Kathy Hochul last week signed the odious class-size bill. It’s a gift to teachers-union boss Michael Mulgrew, at the kids’ expense. Capping class size to 20 students in K-3, 23 in 4th through 8th grade and 25 in high school may sound like a grand idea — but […]
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