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The North Carolina county has been unable to secure space to protect its homeless community during the winter months as COVID-19 has reduced the number of people that each location can house.
A statement by the Philadelphia Police Department, regarding the decision to ban low-level traffic stops, including things such as driving with a single broken brake light, driving with a single headlight, driving without an inspection or emissions sticker or having a registration plate that’s not clearly displayed, fastened or visible. The law will go into effect in early 2022. (NPR — November 8, 2021)
The year in which new vehicles will be required to have monitoring systems that prevent drunk people from driving, under the new infrastructure package that awaits President Biden’s signature. In total, approximately $17 billion is allotted to road safety programs.
COP26 convened amid projections that greenhouse emissions were on track to go up, not down, over the next decade, and severe climate impacts have arrived much sooner than imagined. Will the summit change this picture?
Cities spend millions to raze vacant buildings. Why not use that money to repair them instead?
The COVID recession and its fiscal aftermath should remind politicians, advocates and labor that budget reserves are not piggybanks for new discretionary spending. Economic cycles have not been repealed.
Michigan state Rep. and former Wayne County Sheriff’s lieutenant Tyrone Carter, commenting on the availability of information on social media platforms. The state police are using software programs that allow the agency to scan public social media posts for information, raising privacy concerns from civil liberties advocates. (The Detroit News — November 8, 2021)
In Missouri, determining whether service providers are vaccinated against COVID is not easy due to privacy rules and politics. For at-risk customers, this could put them in danger of contracting the virus.
Rather than work from existing maps, the state’s bipartisan redistricting commission started from scratch and grouped residents into clusters of related communities. But not everyone is happy with the proposed changes.
The county’s only active landfill will become inoperable sooner than previously estimated. Officials must create a solution that doesn’t harm neighboring communities or the environment, and figure out how to pay for it.
A newly launched Gender Equity Dashboard shows that the gender pay gap increased by 6 percent between 2016 and 2019 and experts are worried the pandemic has only worsened the divide.
The amount that the Spokane County, Wash., Sheriff’s Office spent on two days of billboard advertising in New York City’s Times Square to recruit deputies. Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich wanted to buy the ad space in cities in which elected officials had talked negatively about police officers.
As the nation continues to emerge from the worst effects of the pandemic, leaders in suburban school districts are using a range of strategies to restore and strengthen connections with students and communities.
Richmond and other cities are looking to amend zoning codes for new housing and business developments, hoping that looser parking requirements will allow greater investment in housing, retail and greenspace.
The Western Fire Chiefs Association, a nonprofit that started in California during the 1800s, sees much potential in a new tool that can save substantial time and manpower in wildfire recovery missions.
Robert P. Jones says systemic racism is in the DNA of American Christianity and the communities it helped shape but holds out hope for redemption. The opportunity lies in telling a truer story about the founding of the church.
Minneapolis residents voted 56 percent to 44 percent against an amendment that would have transformed the city’s police. The reasons they did so are complicated, an expert writes.
California requires law enforcement to report the controversial warrants to a state database—but The Markup found massive discrepancies in how they’re reported.
In light of last winter’s week-long freeze, which took out many city services, Austin’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management released 132 recommendations on how the city should prepare for future disasters.
The St. Louis County administration building in Clayton, Mo., requires a $50 million investment to meet current fire codes. It might be cheaper just to demolish the building and move to a new location.
Local leaders are pushing back against California’s new housing laws and a newly announced housing strike force. Some worry about the loss of single-family communities, while others want more housing for low-income and homeless populations.
Ambie Bell, a candidate for Benton Harbor, Mich., city commissioner, responding to the city’s ongoing water crisis. For three years, the tap water in Benton Harbor has tested high for levels of lead, leaving residents to rely on bottled water for cooking and drinking. Almost half of the majority-Black city’s residents live below the poverty line. (Associated Press — November 4, 2021)
The number of attorneys general who have filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration’s vaccine requirement for workers at companies with at least 100 employees. All of the attorneys general are Republican.
Collinwood is a microcosm of Cleveland’s majority Black neighborhoods, where years of racism, predatory lending, gun violence and falling property values have left few options for stability and growth.
The multibillion-dollar plan would scale back the version previously proposed by disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, reducing the size and density of surrounding development. The updated station would also receive a new name.
The city purchased two Tesla vehicles for a pilot program of electrifying the police department’s fleet. Preliminary reviews gave the Teslas low marks but the scope of the survey was very narrow.
The Purple Line, formerly the Rush Line, would run from St. Paul to White Bear Lake, and would service 21 local stations. Despite growing opposition to the $475 million project, it’s unclear if it will be enough to stop the development.
Sally Curtin, a statistician at the CDC, regarding a new report that found, overall, a 3 percent decrease in suicides in 2020, a decrease of approximately 1,600 people. April had the starkest decrease, 14 percent fewer people died by suicide than in April 2019. However not every racial group saw the same decrease; Black people between the ages of 15 and 24 and Hispanic people between the ages of 25 and 34 both saw double digit increases in suicide rate in 2020. (NPR — November 3, 2021)
The amount that Edward Durr spent on his election campaign to oust New Jersey’s Senate president Steve Sweeney, who has held that position since 2010. Durr, a furniture company truck driver, defeated Sweeney in Tuesday’s elections.
Republicans and Democrats weren’t the only ones on the ballot this Tuesday. Issues of policing, housing and clean energy were put before voters too.
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