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And then she was put in In November, Albuquerque Metro Judge Barbara Brown was temporarily suspended after police charged her with throwing rocks at a
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And then she was put in ‘time-out.’ In November, Albuquerque Metro Judge Barbara Brown was temporarily suspended after police charged her with throwing rocks at a check-cashing store. The behavior was sparked when the store refused to grant the judge a loan because she had not yet paid off a previous loan.
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We don’t want it. You can’t have it. City officials in Edmonds, Wash., are suing a local man for taking a totem pole out of a landfill. The city had voted to trash the pole, which it had received as a donation. According to the Seattle Times, officials just want to make sure the pole stays in the landfill.
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Yo. Take my cab. New York and Charleston, S.C., were named the most polite cities in the country in December. The list of the 10 best-mannered cities has been compiled by Marjabelle Young Stewart for the last 25 years. Charleston has appeared every year and has topped the list eight times. Counting the most recent list, New York has appeared only twice.
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A quarter century of pressing business. Philadelphia City Councilman Angel Ortiz was recently found to have been driving for the last 25 years without a license. “I kept trying to make time to get a new license, and it seemed that something pressing always took precedence,” Ortiz told the Philadelphia Daily News. According to the newspaper, Ortiz also had 53 unpaid parking tickets worth about $3,000.
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Bomb? What bomb? New Bedford, Mass., high school students who had threatened to blow up their school got a break in November when police tossed out the partial bomb that served as evidence. According to the Boston Globe, the police made the decision based on an erroneous belief that only active bombs could be used as evidence.
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New York mayor announces city-wide curbside composting program, impacting 8.5 million residents by 2024
On the heels of a successful 3-month-long pilot program in Queens, New York City has announced the largest curbside composting program in the United States. The initiative will begin following a winter-long hiatus of the Queens pilot, which is set to return permanently March 27. Curbside service to Brooklyn will begin Oct. 2, followed by the […]
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Federal funds help fast-growing Arizona city address several infrastructure challenges and needs
Joe Giudice, public works director for the city of Phoenix, says the influx of new residents is driving a lot of construction in his community. “Phoenix is the fifth largest city in the United States. It is one of the fastest growing cities in a fast-growing region, which influences infrastructure product and service demand. This […]
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How 5G is making cities safer, smarter, and more efficient
This article first appeared on Urgent Communication. It’s a scenario we’ve all experienced: an ambulance with a blaring siren racing against time to get a person in medical distress to a hospital through traffic. What we don’t see is 5G connectivity enabling paramedics to communicate with hospital staff via video conference and coordinate care in […]
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Shifting city demographics present an opportunity to build coalitions, address inequality
Minority-majority cities are driving American growth. New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago, for example, combined for an estimated 16% of the nation’s total gross domestic product in 2021—future projections anticipate a continuation of this trend, and an opportunity to create coalitions to address injustices. Between 2015 and 2020, 22% of U.S. cities were majority-minority, […]