August 2021

ORONO, Maine - Despite the start of a new fiscal year of nearly three months, understaffing and extreme overtime are straining the budget of the Orono Fire Department. City manager Sophie Wilson told the city council's finance…

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass .-- City council and two of its committees are responding to complaints filed in June about the open meetings law. The complaints filed on June 30 were filed by council candidate Jennifer Barbeau. Barbeau…

A day after Mayor Lori Lightfoot asked for it, Ald accused. Carrie Austin (34th) resigned Tuesday as chair of the Chicago City Council committee on contract monitoring and fairness. "I have always tried to be loyal to the mayors I have…

Residents of Troy expressed outrage Thursday night as city council moved forward with a settlement with the family of a man shot dead by a police officer during a traffic stop in 2016.After nearly an…

A new Belfast City Council (BCC) committee that has been called 'undemocratic' by critics has passed its final hurdle…

Kansas citizens could be required to mask themselves until the end of September when a new city ordinance is passed.The city council's transport, infrastructure and operations committee voted…

A special session of a Kansas City Council committee collects public testimony on the city's mask tenure on Wednesday. This is what you need to know. What's on the agenda The only item on the evening's agenda is Order 210694,…

Bethlehem City Council's public works committee will consider a "responsible contractor ordinance" this…

The Chicago city council committee headed by the accused Ald. Carrie Austin (34th Ward) spent $ 191,500 in 2020, when she has only met three times without pushing forward a single substantive piece of legislation or lobbying officials on…