Government
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The chemical fire that started Thursday afternoon at SMB Products in East Akron has been fully extinguished and the smoke has largely dissipated, Akron Mayor Shammas Malik announced Saturday afternoon via a news release. The post East Akron chemical fire out, but adjacent waterways contaminated by runoff from the site appeared first on Signal Akron.
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When the Summit County Board of Elections couldn’t verify enough of the signatures on a charter amendment petition to get it on November’s ballot, it shut down any chance, for now, of expanding the pool of candidates for Akron’s police and fire department leadership positions. The post Here’s why the charter amendment petition to change…
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Six candidates for Ohio Supreme Court will be on the November ballot in three different races. The outcomes will decide the balance of the court and have major impacts on a wide variety of issues that affect the lives of Ohioans, from education and environmental issues to gerrymandering and elections to civil and reproductive rights. The post Meet…
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NC Board of Elections asks high court to reverse order to remove Kennedy. Changing ballots will cause delay, cut close to federal deadline. Appeal to NC Supreme Court keeps 2024 ballots in limbo is a story from Carolina Public Press, an award-winning …
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Conservative groups want a federal judge to force Arizona counties to further investigate the status of voters who have not provided documented proof of citizenship.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is asking a court to remove his name as an independent presidential candidate from Wisconsin’s November ballot, after the state election commission rejected his request to be removed when it finalized the ballots last week.
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There was no meeting of the City of Ithaca Planning Board last month, but the board made up for lost time on Tuesday with a five-hour long meeting that featured the Planning Board’s introduction to the initial Downtown Neighborhood Plan proposal.
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Former U.S. House of Representatives member Carolyn Maloney stopped in Ithaca Tuesday as part of a statewide bus tour to generate support for the federal Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).
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The legal case against the Ohio Ballot Board over ballot language for Issue 1, the anti-gerrymandering amendment, took an unusual turn last week when two of the board members agreed with the allegations against them.
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The lawsuit contends that counties lack the authority to send out unsolicited registration applications.