Boston City Council eying charter change to avoid another New Year’s Day inauguration | #citycouncil
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- March 19, 2024
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City Council members are sworn in by Boston Mayor Michelle Wu during a New Year’s Day ceremony at Faneuil Hall. A proposed charter change would prohibit the inauguration from falling on a federal holiday again. (Nancy Lane/Boston Herald) Boston city councilors unhappy with having to work this past New Year’s Day are seeking a change […]
Read MoreLegislature fails to override governor on education mega-bill | #alaska | #politics
The Alaska Legislature, in a joint session on Monday voted 39-20, but it was one vote short of what was needed to override Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of an education bill, Senate Bill 140, that started out as an internet bill for rural Alaska, but turned into the dream of the National Education Association Alaska […]
Read MoreVolumes at Southern California Ports Continue Strong Drive by Economy
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- March 18, 2024
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Data for February from the southern California ports once again confirmed the continuing strength in U.S. trade and continued the positive trends in container volumes. Executives both the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach highlighted the strong start to the year for the ports after weak 2023 volumes and the […]
Read MoreCalifornia Noncompete Ban Extended in New Legislation
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- March 18, 2024
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As we’ve previously written, California already takes a strong position against employee noncompete agreements. State law bans such agreements (with extremely limited exception) and imposes significant penalties on employers who nonetheless require workers to execute such provisions. Recently, the Golden State took steps to expand its restriction on noncompetes even further to enable California courts to […]
Read MoreProposition 1 opponents revive campaign- CalMatters
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- March 18, 2024
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In summary Opponents of Proposition 1 withdraw their concession as Gov. Gavin Newsom’s mental health ballot measure barely leads. The foes are launching a campaign, similar to one by Newsom’s political action committee, to find and fix rejected ballots. On March 12 — a week after primary day — opponents of Proposition 1 waved the […]
Read MoreCleaning Up California’s Oil Graveyards
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- March 18, 2024
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Thousands of leaking, idle oil wells are scattered across California, creating toxic graveyards symbolic of a dying industry. To tackle this “urgent climate and public health crisis,” Santa Barbara Assemblymember Gregg Hart introduced Assembly Bill 1866 last week. The bill would mandate oil operators to develop plans to plug the 40,000 idle wells (and counting) […]
Read More‘Don’t plant these species in California,’ state officials say
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- March 18, 2024
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(FOX40.COM) — Invasive plants are defined as plants that are not native to an environment, and once introduced, they establish, quickly reproduce, and spread, which can cause harm to the environment, economy, or even human health. In a state that values its agriculture as much as California does, certain plant species mustn’t be introduced to […]
Read MoreCalifornia Pastor claims Hamas ‘pimping’ Palestinians against Israel
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- March 18, 2024
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“Hamas is ‘pimping’ Palestinians to be ‘implements of war’ against Israel,” California Pastor Jack Hibbs said this weekend, while he criticized Hamas for exploiting Palestinians in their conflict with Israel. Hibbs argued, in his sermon, published by the Christian Post, and broadcasted on YouTube, that Hamas is using Palestinians as “implements of war” and accuses […]
Read MoreLincoln City Council votes on Michon Morrow as chief of LPD | #citycouncil
LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) – The Lincoln City Council is voting on Michon Morrow to be the permanent police chief on Monday. On Feb. 27, Mayor Leirion Gaylor Barid announced her nomination of Morrow, who has been a member of the Lincoln Police Department since 1995. Morrow was appointed acting chief of police in July after Teresa […]
Read MoreStudents May Get More Time to File
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- March 18, 2024
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This article was originally published in Cal Matters. Students seeking state financial aid have just two weeks remaining to beat a California deadline, even as thousands have been locked out of completing the federal application necessary to get that state aid — a problem that particularly affects students who are citizens but whose parents are not. Now […]
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