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Zoning Committee Chairman Tom Tunney (44th), who doubles as the casino committee chairman, said he is not at all certain that the votes are there to approve the companion agreements. “There’s still a lot of work to be done. I don’t know if we can get it done by Friday.…

Dallas mayor Eric Johnson caused a stir last week when he pushed for the idea of a second NFL in team to join the Dallas Cowboys in North Texas, preferably based in southern Dallas.

The public must hold elected officials’ feet to the fire and push for creation of an independent, public remap commission.

BALTIMORE — Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby violated the city’s ethics ordinance by indirectly soliciting for a legal defense fund that took donations from at least two city contractors, the city’s Board of Ethics said in a ruling Thursday that ordered Mosby to stop accepting money from the fund.

Petoskey's draft ordinance would require both "legitimate" fortunetellers and people pretending to tell fortunes to be licensed, calling into question the sense of licensing at all.

NEW YORK — The New York City Education Department is planning to open two “virtual academies” to give public school students more opportunities to learn online.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One City Council member in Shawnee, Kansas, is asking her colleagues to reconsider an ordinance passed without opposition last month that prohibits homeowners from renting houses to four or more people who are unrelated to one another.

The GMB union have urged whoever takes charge of Glasgow city council in the wake of the election that sorting out conditions for staff at the Polmadie Depot must be a priority

Under the deal, which still needs to be cemented by a Chicago City Council vote next week, the map will create 16 Black majority wards and 14 Latino majority wards — one fewer than the Latino caucus had fought for.