Mayor Libby Schaaf said her office would press the Oakland City Council to undo the upcoming $18 million budget cut, which was approved by local lawmakers in June and is set to take effect next year. She vowed to continue efforts at “violence prevention” outside the realm of law enforcement, …
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The video of Breed, reportedly from this week, shows the mayor in a crowd, dancing and singing, seemingly aware she is being filmed. Breed previously found herself attracting similar negative attention in September, when a video showed her dancing at a jazz club without a mask. She dismissed the publicity …
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32-year-old Cambridge Mayor Andrew Bradshaw was arrested on Monday and charged with distributing the photos on multiple pornographic Reddit forums or “subreddits” without consent. If found guilty, Bradshaw could receive two years in prison and a $250,000 fine. According to the complaint, Bradshaw made several Reddit accounts using the victims …
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A former NYPD captain, Mayor-elect Eric Adams has promised to reinstate the city’s Anti-Crime units. Some 600 officers worked in these plainclothes units until they were disbanded by Mayor Bill deBlasio last summer amid a surge in anti-police sentiment following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. At a sit-down …
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On Sunday, the Vienna government said that a two-year program would be launched to re-contextualize a towering statue of former Mayor Karl Lueger. How the statue will look after the contextualization remains to be seen, as a consultation and tender is yet to be launched. The decision to retain the …
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“In New York we always go big, so I’m going to take my first THREE paychecks in bitcoin when I become mayor,” Adams posted on his Twitter account. “NYC is going to be the center of the cryptocurrency industry and other fast-growing, innovative industries! Just wait!” The tweet, which comes …
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In a press release on Thursday, the office of Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, announced the creation of a £1 million Untold Stories fund which aims to “champion diversity and improve representation in the capital’s public spaces.” The fund will be made available to community-led groups, who can receive …
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The city on Thursday filed a complaint against the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) and its president, John Catanzara, for encouraging officers to ignore the vaccine mandate, including Friday’s deadline to report their inoculation status. The FOP shot back on Friday with a lawsuit of its own, demanding that the …
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Biden touched down in Chicago on Thursday for a speech promoting his administration’s recently announced vaccine mandate for private companies, which would force employers to require that their workers either be vaccinated against Covid-19 or submit to regular testing. The speech, during which he linked his aggressive mandates to rising …
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Black Lives Matter of Greater New York co-founder Chivona Newsome denounced the mayor’s Covid-19 vaccine passport as “modern day freedom papers,” comparing it to the documents freed slaves were forced to carry during the 19th century to prove their liberated status to authorities – who might seek to kidnap them …
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