The US Supreme Court’s high-profile Grants Pass ruling allows cities to clear homeless encampments, even if they can’t offer shelter. A scholar explains why a Housing First approach is more effective.
Wisconsin Watch founders Andy and Dee Hall were recently awarded the 2024 Service to Nonprofit News Award, the biggest honor from the Institute for Nonprofit News.
The historic federal indictment of Mayor Eric Adams alleging he obtained more than $10 million in public matching funds for his 2021 campaign under false pretenses now casts a shadow over his 2025 campaign’s requests for more matching funds from the Campaign Finance Board. Prosecutors allege that the 2021 campaign certified that all the contributions […]
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ITHACA, N.Y. — The U.S. Customs Facility at the Ithaca-Tompkins International Airport, celebrated at its 2018 groundbreaking as a way to make Ithaca a global destination, will close just four years after it opened following a tenure marked by sizable financial losses and little usage. After brief comments from Airport Director Roxan Noble and some […]
In the first official response to a use-of-force report by Independent Police Auditor Anthony Finnell, Akron Police Chief Brian Harding and, apparently, Mayor Shammas Malik, rejected calls to discipline the officer who body slammed and arrested Dierra Fields earlier this year, along with the sergeant on site who didn’t intervene.
