The president’s deployment of the military to our cities undermines a critical constitutional safeguard for democracy. Just look at what’s happened in some other countries.
The California county is working hard to increase transparency about its voting processes amid the rise in conspiracy theories and occasional violence by offering tours of the election office.
A number of Los Angeles’ election races are likely to remain unanswered by the evening of Nov. 8 as a shift to vote-by-mail fundamentally alters how Californians participate in elections and how ballots are counted.
As election day approaches, a Maryland candidate for office uses every minute to secure every vote.
The all-volunteer group is shaping development projects with recommendations and refinements, without blocking timelines. The advice may help developers consider their neighborhood impact.
The Republican-led effort lowered the county’s property tax rate and will result in the elimination of approximately 560 vacant positions, postpone a sheriff deputy cadet class and delay some flood control projects.
The two Texas communities in Tarrant County have little in common, but state lawmakers united them under the same Senate district in an act of “defensive gerrymandering,” essentially guaranteeing a GOP advantage.
There are an estimated 1,228 people experiencing homelessness in Oakland County, Mich., and officials worry that numbers will continue to worsen as federal aid programs end and inflation continues to increase costs of living.
Mayor Quinton Lucas claimed that political mailers advocating the re-election of state Sen. Tony Luetkemeyer violated the law by using images of city police officers to promote political activity. It’s unclear whether the allegation is true.
For more than a century, school boards and other municipal posts have largely been nonpartisan. Momentum is growing to change that.
The City Council has issued a halt to renewals of existing permits and those in the application pipeline. The moratorium, which could begin as soon as Nov. 3, would phase out nearly all 1,300 residential short-term rentals.
The city has maintained a council that is relatively small and unusually strong for decades. But in the wake of leaked audio revealing crude and racist comments, some argue for ways to dilute the power structure.
Angry voters are calling Bexar County election officials to complain about slow ballot delivery, sometimes being demanding and demeaning, while staff are scrambling to establish 35 more voting sites before Election Day.
Evictions across the region have increased as California’s state and local pandemic-induced renter protections expired at the end of June. Tenant advocates expect eviction rates to continue rising.
No one disputes that we need more housing. But the YIMBY movement has a broader set of goals that would threaten the tradition of local land use decisions in America.
A political action group, a coalition of block clubs and nine city voters have filed a lawsuit against the city in an attempt to nullify the Common Council boundaries, claiming the districts should be more inclusive and racially balanced.
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