Gov1 News
Find local government-related news on a variety of topics.
FEATURED NEWS
The agency will use the L3Harris PatrolSim simulator for routine training for new and existing officers and remedial training for officers who get into accidents
The Cellphone Jamming Reform Act seeks to allow state and federal prisons to use cellphone jamming systems
The denials are “insulting to the fire service and the sacrifice that those men and women have put in,” said Jared Willey, president of IAFF Local 772
Also late Sunday, two people were shot to death and at least five were injured in an attack outside a bar in San Antonio, Texas.
It’s a compounding problem: Year after year, storms batter roads and homes, but federal recovery funding is restricted to damage from a single disaster and a specific timeframe.
The former mayor and Democratic presidential candidate described the initiative as a “plan for righting what I think are historic wrongs and creating opportunity and wealth in black communities.”
“Fear, hate and attempts to divide are signatures of the Trump Administration, not New York City,” Mayor de Blasio spokeswoman Freddi Goldstein said Friday. “We are the safest big city in America because of our policies, not in spite of them.”
Each teen in the study experienced an average of five incidents of discrimination a day
“I cannot imagine what happens to transgender people if these criminal bans pass,” said the ACLU’s Strangio, a transgender man. “I don’t think we can possibly raise the alarm enough, because people are going to die.”
Rep. Bobby Scott, chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, said the proposal “threatens the progress we’ve made toward improving nutrition in schools. For many children, the food they eat at school is their only access to healthy, nutritious meals.”
The senior counsel to the Department of Safety in Denver noted in a letter to ICE officials that the subpoenas were administrative — not issued by a judge — and there was no verifiable information on the documents to show the purpose was for law enforcement and not civil immigration enforcement.
Under federal law, all responses are kept completely confidential, and they can be used only to produce statistics.
Gov. Northam lamented that such precautions were necessary for what’s been a peaceful yearly event, but said pro-gun activists have “unleashed something larger, something they may not be able to control.”