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Mayor Levar Stoney billed taxpayers for 5-star hotel stays

In January, Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney made the roughly 100-mile trip to Washington, D.C, to attend the annual four-day winter conference of the United States Conference of Mayors, a gathering he has attended every year since his 2017 election. But unlike other Virginia mayors, Stoney didn’t stay at the four-star Capital Hilton on 16th Street Northwest, the […]

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City Council

DuBois City Council schedules public hearing for liquor license transfer request | News | #citycouncil

DuBOIS — The DuBois City Council will hold a public hearing at 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 28 with regard to an inter-municipal restaurant liquor license transfer. The request for the transfer from outside of the municipality into the city has been made by Flaherty & O’Hara Professional Corp., Pittsburgh, on behalf of The Public House […]

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City Council

York City Council takes a look at blight study | #citycouncil

YORK — York’s blight study was presented to the City Council at its meeting on Thursday.  Five Rule, a community planning firm out of Kearney, first presented this to the York’s Planning Commission on July 11. The commission unanimously approved making a recommendation for the City Council to view the presentation. The study highlighted three areas […]

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City Council

Our view | Longview City Council must cut sidewalk dining costs | #citycouncil

There are some solutions we find by accident. Penicillin, silly putty, smoke detectors and Coca-Cola were all accidental products of an unrelated project. Sidewalk dining is much the same. During the COVID-19 pandemic, restaurants were trying to figure out how to thread the needle of social distancing in a scenario where masking wasn’t really an […]

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City Council

Marion City Council approves social district for downtown | #citycouncil

By MIKE CONLEY Marion will have a social district where patrons can walk around with open containers of alcohol within a designated and regulated area. The idea is to encourage more revitalization in the downtown as other North Carolina cities already have done. The creation of such a district was unanimously approved by the Marion […]

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City Council

Bed and breakfast proposal heads to Napa City Council on appeal | #citycouncil

Easily access the very latest local news that matters in an app built for you. Read, see, and hear exclusive commentary, stunning photography,… The planned transformation of a 1,200-square-foot, three-bedroom Napa house into a bed-and-breakfast inn failed to win over a majority of the city planning commission last month, largely because of a belief the […]

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