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City Hall to consider MP’s call to grant Ulez exemption for hospice staff and patients

Jon Cruddas, the Labour MP for Dagenham and Rainham, made the request in a letter to Seb Dance, London’s deputy mayor of transport

Evening Standard

A year in, Chicago’s migrant crisis shows no sign of letting up

The state, we think, should be more aggressive in coordinating efforts to find suburbs, or even downstate communities, willing to take in asylum seekers.

Chicago Sun-Times

TfL unveils over 80 new zero-emission buses in Sutton, with health message

City Hall hopes the buses - along with the expanded Ulez - will improve Londoners’ health

Evening Standard

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Rishi Sunak ‘overruled from blocking Sadiq Khan’s Ulez expansion’

Legal advice said to have concluded Government block on Ulez expansion would fail if challenged

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan: Housing crisis is forcing London’s public sector workers to quit

The mayor warned that the capital’s public sector workers ‘are faced with stagnant wages’

Evening Standard

Almost 300,000 pupils in London will get mayor’s free school meals

City Hall says that thanks to the policy, families will save ‘upwards of £440 per child’

Evening Standard

Biden taps Rahm’s former City Hall corporation counsel to be top White House lawyer

Ed Siskel — nephew of the late Chicago film critic Gene Siskel — is familiar with high-stakes congressional investigations and other politicized probes.

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Sadiq Khan accused of trying to ‘squash’ scientific ‘dissent’ over Ulez

The Labour mayor’s deputy called on an academic funded by City Hall to rebut studies that questioned Ulez effectiveness.

The Independent UK

Overpass project suspended after worker killed

City Hall has ordered the suspension of work on an overpass at Bang Kapi intersection after a 10-metre-long sheet of metal crashed to the ground as it was being lifted by a crane, killing one worker and injuring two others.

Bangkok Post

Poll: One in three London homeowners think they will struggle with mortgage costs in next six months

Mayor Sadiq Khan said the polling further proved the need for Government intervention

Evening Standard

Building new luxury homes makes even lower-income housing more affordable, City Hall finds

It said that market-rate homes helped make cheaper housing more affordable by “creating chains of vacancies and moves that can reach across an entire housing market area”

Evening Standard

Row after just three affordable homes started in London last quarter

Criticism against the mayor was branded “utter nonsense” by a source close to Mr Khan, who said it had been impossible to start new affordable homes due to Government delays

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan should rethink ‘clobbering’ motorists with Ulez expansion, urges senior Labour MP

Londoners should not be “clobbered” with new Ultra Low Emission Zone charges during a cost of living crisis, a Labour shadow minister said on Tuesday.

Evening Standard

Exodus of major, full-service grocers offering healthy variety paints a bleak picture of food access for some in Chicago

The number of Chicagoans living over a mile away from a supermarket or superstore — a major grocer — has jumped by 63% in the past decade, a WBEZ-Chicago Sun-Times analysis found.

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‘Stump up £2.2bn or London house building could grind to a halt’, Sadiq Khan tells Michael Gove

Sadiq Khan issues stark warning that capital’s housing crisis will worsen without £2.2bn in Government funding as developers down tools

Evening Standard

OPINION - It’s down to us to persuade leaders to save the planet

Commentary: The public debate has yet to be won on the scale needed to save the planet

Chicago Sun-Times

Bridgeport bank failure fallout: Ex-city official, second man plead guilty in collapse of Washington Federal Bank for Savings

William M. Mahon was a high-ranking City Hall official under three former mayors and had close ties to the Daley family’s political organization.

Evening Standard

Motorists protest Ulez expansion outside Downing St

The rally comes a day after Sadiq Khan pledged not to “water down” the extension on August 29

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Chicago police union boss blasts mayor for calling teen looting a ‘trend’: ‘That means, do whatever the hell you want, apparently’

“Nobody is renaming anybody little mini-Al Capones. But they certainly, in many cases, had the same, terrorizing effect that Al Capone had 100 years ago,” John Catanzara said.

Evening Standard

Mayors from cities around the globe back Sadiq Khan as he vows no delay to Ulez

Drivers of the most polluting cars will have to pay a daily £12.50 charge anywhere in Greater London from August 29

The Independent UK

Sadiq Khan expands Ulez scrappage scheme after Keir Starmer criticism

Financial support will be extended to all Londoners as mayor digs into City Hall reserves

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan opens Ulez scrappage scheme to all Londoners in £50m boost

The Labour mayor has come under significant pressure from within his own party in recent weeks over the Ulez expansion

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard View: Rents crisis is pushing Londoners to the edge

Average rents in London are projected to soar to £2,700 per month next year, according to figures gathered by City Hall. Meanwhile, to rent just a single room in a shared house, tenants are forking out £1,000 on average.

Evening Standard

Ulez revolt intensifies as home counties councils refuse to install signs

A home counties rebellion against Sadiq Khan’s expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone has intensified just weeks before it is due to be rolled out to the London boundary.

Evening Standard

Capital’s home rental crisis as bills soar to £2,700 a month

‘Spiralling’ rental costs are driving families into poverty, a campaign group said.

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