Omaha City Council approves contract with National League of Cities Race, Equity and Leadership team | #citycouncil
Omaha’s City Council approved a contract Tuesday with the National League of Cities Race, Equity and Leadership team, for training for city employees. Keith Station is deputy chief of staff in Mayor Jean Stothert’s office and leader of Omaha’s diversity, equity and inclusion strategy. “This is a good thing, a reason to celebrate really, even […]
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State Legislature will Remain Super Majority Republican | Columns | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
The Alabama Legislature will remain super majority Republican for the next quadrennium. As the dust settles from the May/June party primaries, there have been negligible if any party changes. There has been some shuffling on the deck of the GOP boat, but it has all been intraparty struggles. By and large, both the House of […]
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Mayor Ken Welch gets schooled at Bloomberg Harvard program for mayors
School may be out for summer, but it just began for St. Pete Mayor Ken Welch. Driving the news: Welch just returned from a four-day workshop in New York City as part of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative. He’s one of 40 mayors from around the world selected to participate in the yearlong leadership […]
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State Legislature will remain super-majority Republican | Columnists | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
The Alabama Legislature will remain super-majority Republican for the next quadrennium. As the dust settles from the May/June party primaries, there have been negligible if any party changes. There has been some shuffling on the deck of the GOP boat, but it has all been intraparty struggles. By and large, both the House of Representatives […]
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Its Finances Dire, This Arkansas University Will Lay Off 44 Tenured Faculty Members
A public four-year college in Arkansas plans to cut 25 degree programs and lay off 67 faculty members, 44 of them tenured, to help stabilize its finances. Officials at Henderson State University, in Arkadelphia, Ark., shared the proposal on Monday, along with a letter from the chancellor, Chuck Ambrose. The plan followed years of financial […]
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