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Mayor

Massive Peskin kickoff sets up an epic race for mayor of SF

It’s always hard to estimate crowd size, particularly in a crowded place like Portsmouth Square, but I would say at least 750 people showed up today for the Aaron Peskin for Mayor kickoff, and that might be low. Could have been 1,000. Either way, it was a massive show of support for a candidate who […]

Mayor

The mayor’s upzoning plans will deeply damage SF’s neighborhoods

“There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.” —Jane Jacobs “Some who are fortunate to have communities still do fight to keep them, but they have seldom prevailed. While people possess a community, they usually understand […]

Mayor

Former Kansas City mayor Richard Berkley passes dies

Richard ‘Dick’ Berkley, the longest serving mayor in Kansas City’s history, dies Updated: 5:27 PM CST Nov 29, 2023 Richard “Dick” Berkley, who served as mayor of Kansas City for 12 years, died on Wednesday. Berkley was the Mayor of Kansas City from 1979 to 1991.He served as a council member for a decade before […]

City Council

Boca Raton, Florida city council to vote whether to allow assisted living facilities in neighborhoods | #citycouncil

Click the video player above for a look at your WPBF 25 News to Go HeadlinesA vote is set for this Tuesday in Boca Raton which would change the city’s zoning ordinance, allowing assisted living facilities to potentially be built in residential neighborhoods. Several residents in the Boca Square neighborhood are keeping a close eye […]

Alabama

5-at-10: Braves’ big beginning, Tiger talk on Tour, Alabama’s poll dominance | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

Big start Take that Metropolitans. (Side question: Metropolitans as a nickname, friend or foe?) Game 1 of a critical — way more so for Atlanta than the Mets — four-game series at Truist Park in Smyrna became a soggy tail-whipping. The Braves got just about everything they could have hoped for in the 13-1 win. […]

Alabama

Dollar General stores in Georgia cited for unsafe working conditions and more business news | #elections | #alabama

Dollar General is cited for dangerous worksites Dollar General faces penalties after three of its Georgia locations were cited for dangerous working conditions. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposed $1,292,783 in penalties for violations at stores in Smyrna, Pembroke and Hogansville, Georgia, according to a Monday news release. The workplace […]

Alabama

Republicans sweep 12th Judicial District Thursday as voters choose new DA, public defender and judges | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

Thursday’s vote tallies changed the face of the six-county 12th Judicial District in a single stroke. With all Republican district circuit judges on the ballot facing no opposition combined with landslide victories for Courtney Lynch in the district attorney’s race and Ted Engel in the public defender’s race, the GOP on Thursday swept the six-county […]

Alabama

Tennessee Republican Rep. Warner, former Rep. Tillis square off in social media war | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

Embattled state Rep. Todd Warner and his former opponent, ex-Rep. Rick Tillis, are going at each other in a social media fight as the Aug. 4 election nears. Warner, who has been under investigation by the FBI since early 2021, sent out a text message blast recently telling constituents in House District 92 they would […]

Alabama

Biden nominates former TVA chair to return to federal utility board | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

Former Tennessee Valley Authority Chairman Joe H. Ritch could soon be returning to the TVA board a decade after he was first named to help oversee the federal utility. President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated the Huntsville, Alabama, attorney to serve as a TVA director again. Ritch was first appointed to the nine-member TVA board […]

Alabama

Alabama Trump delegate kicked off ballot for Tennessee Senate seat over residency | #elections | #alabama

Note: This story was updated on April 29 to correct the county of residence for J. Adam Lowe. Athens, Tennessee, businessman Dennis Beavers, a hopeful for outgoing state Sen. Mike Bell’s seat, has been removed from the ballot for the state’s new Senate District 1 after a hearing Wednesday in McMinn County found he was […]