August 26, 2024
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Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Texas’ free newsletter here. Texas officials are urging more counties to join a revamped voter registration management…
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Karina Ruiz felt like her feet were sinking with each step she took in the clingy sand outside of Agua Prieta, Sonora. At just 15 years old, she and her parents, Virginia and Mauro, had tried crossing the desert and into the United States six times without success. The exhaustion and the risk of losing…
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The city of Cleveland is extending hours tomorrow at some recreation centers with air conditioning so residents can beat the heat. Temperatures are expected to reach 93 degrees. The post Looking for a place to cool off? City to open ‘cooling centers’ as temperatures expected to top 90 degrees appeared first on Signal Cleveland.
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Sign up for Chalkbeat Tennessee’s free daily newsletter to keep up with statewide education policy and Memphis-Shelby County Schools.The Tennessee educator chosen as the nation’s teacher of the year is calling on America’s 3.5 million teachers to “find…
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ITHACA, N.Y. — City administrators will begin accepting applications in the coming week to fill the part-time role of homeless outreach coordinator, a long-awaited addition to an overwhelmed city staff. […] The post City hiring part-time homeless outreach coordinator to manage encampment efforts appeared first on The Ithaca Voice.
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People caught sleeping in public spaces can be fined $100 or incarcerated for 15 days. The post Oswego wanted to be ‘ahead of the curve’ on public homelessness. So the city criminalized it. appeared first on Central Current.
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Flint, MI – The City of Flint has installed a completely redesigned network, including next generation firewalls, to deter future cyber attacks and to safeguard the city’s online infrastructure and data. The upgrade comes after an Aug. 14, 2024 cyber attack that caused city systems to go down and called for the cancellation of public…
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The City Council will hold a hearing Tuesday on the mayor’s controversial pick for corporation counsel, Randy Mastro, a former deputy mayor and longtime lawyer who is currently representing New Jersey in a case against New York. Mastro, a partner at the firm King and Spalding and the longtime chair of good government group Citizens…
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Fast winds, low humidity and fast-burning fuel drove the Remington Fire from northern Wyoming onto more than 100,000 acres in southeastern Montana, making it the largest fire of the season so far. The post Remington Fire grows into the largest fire of the season while blazes continue in western Montana appeared first on Montana Free…
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Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools.Sumaiya Jessi, a rising senior at the Bronx High School of Science, was searching for summer opportunities that would help her pursue a career in medicine when …