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Residents' input sought for Emmet Street neighborhood planning
PETOSKEY — Residents of Petoskey’s Emmet Street corridor soon will have opportunities to take a close look around their neighborhood and share thoughts on how they’d like it to appear in the future. Petoskey city planner Amy Tweeten has...
Tags: Government, Politics
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Owens received payment to dismiss lawsuit against Danville
tkleffman@amnews.comThe city of Danville’s insurance carrier paid to settle a lawsuit filed by former city commissioner Ryan Owens, a settlement the insurance company attempted to keep secret. According to the settlement agreement, which The Advocate-Messenger...Tags: Litigation, Technology, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Trials
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Heavy rains blamed for opening sinkhole along Indy road, causing damage to 4 cars
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indianapolis city official is blaming recent heavy rains for opening up a sinkhole along a street and causing damage to four vehicles. City Department of Public Works spokeswoman Lesley Gordon says April's heavy rainfall...Tags: Sinkholes, Government, Politics
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Oak Park president-elect seeks to change liquor restriction
Oak Park's president-elect and a local state senator want to change a law that would prohibit the town's leader from having interest in a business with a liquor license while holding public office. State law bans public officials in towns of 50,000...
Tags: Local Elections, Elections, Voting, Don Harmon, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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Lake School Board shouldn't have waited to be sued over gay-straight club
The School Board could have walked away with dignity and a reputation for fair dealing after the threat of a lawsuit to force the district to let a student form a gay-straight club at a Leesburg school. But, no. Leave it to the board to postpone the...Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, Litigation, Trials, Elections, Social Issues
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Glendale is no different from Los Angeles
In 2001, Former Mayor Frank Quintero approved changing the benefit factor that would allow safety personnel to retire after 30 years of service at age 50 with 90% of their last year of spiked income, rather than maintaining their existing generous 75%...Tags: Local Elections, Public Housing, Elections, Housing and Urban Planning, Interior Policy
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Commentary: Saving public from wood fires is not a local issue
The big news Friday morning was a proposed mayors-only meeting with South Coast Air Quality Management District board member and Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido. The purpose: a roll-up-our-sleeves discussion relating to the fire rings. The AQMD meets...Tags: Elections, Physical Conditions, Government, Asthma, Politics
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Ruben Barrales, party guy
When President Obama told students in Mexico that without the support of U.S. Latinos he would not be president, he wasn't talking about the GOP's Ruben Barrales. But Barrales gets the message. He is the son of immigrants, and San Mateo County's first...
Tags: Migration, Elections, White House, University of California, Riverside, Immigration
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Labor has helped L.A., but tweaks are still needed
I think it's fair to say that the men sitting across the table from me Monday afternoon were not terribly happy with my recent work. Bob Schoonover, president of Service Employees International Union, Local 721, and Art Sweatman, a shop steward and tree...
Tags: Public Employees, Interior Policy, Government, Politics, Antonio Villaraigosa
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Sanford will try to sell historic Little Red Schoolhouse
Sanford commissioners have decided to try to sell the city's Little Red Schoolhouse, a 130-year-old historic building on South Palmetto Avenue which was one of Seminole County's first public schools. "We want to put it on the market and just see if we...
Tags: Public Schools, Government, Politics, Sanford, Schools
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Court backs Evanston's rejection of Jewish school
Evanston officials on Monday applauded a judge's determination that they did not engage in religious discrimination when they rejected an Orthodox Jewish school's plans to move into town. The ruling means that officials with Joan Dachs Bais Yaakov...
Tags: Justice System, Evanston, Cook County Government, Chicago Transit Authority, Government
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Delray's success puts extra pressure on city cops
Its beaches attracted more than a million people last year, and its downtown living is among the most sought after in Palm Beach County. But the success of Delray Beach has put additional pressure on a Police Department that, in spite of coming up...
Tags: Government, Delray Beach, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Boynton Beach
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