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The River Oaks road project will improve access to the nearby Joint Reserve Base and will enhance driver safety and community recreation.

U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate's injunction prevents the metro Jackson water authority from taking actions such as naming its own board president or entering a lease agreement.

缅甸军政府领导人、现任总统敏昂莱周四下令，将前民选领导人昂山素季的剩余刑期改为居家软禁执行。

Em 24 horas, o Senado rejeitou a indicação de Jorge Messias para ocupar uma vaga no Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) e derrubou os vetos que o presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) havia feito ao Projeto de Lei (PL) da Dosimetria, visto como um disfarce à anistia dos golpistas do 8 de janeiro de […] Fonte

最近，法国世界报发表有关中国的系列文章，主题是：“中国是如何吞噬欧洲的”。在本次报摘节目中，我们选播“中国的全面崛起”这一章节。 法国世界报指出，中国的崛起是全面的，是全能的：从电池到核能，从创新药物到食品添加剂，从高铁到人工智能，在数量惊人的技术与产业领域，中国已经追赶并超越了西方，而且，在每一个领域，中国都试图掌控整个价值链。

جمهوری اسلامی در تنگنا | فروپاشی یا جرقه یک خیزش بزرگ؟

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ایران در قعر آزادی مطبوعات؛ بحران رسانه‌ها به بدترین سطح ۲۵ سال اخیر رسید

For years, Kartar Diamond struggled to find care for her son due to a lack of quality residential housing programs in California, expensive monthly rates, and long waiting lists at both public and private long-term psychiatric facilities.  Now 35, he lives in a residential housing program in Orange County for people with severe mental illnesses.Is This California Housing Program the Ideal Model for Treating People with Severe Mental Illness?  was first posted on April 30, 2026 at 4:12 pm.©2021 "California Health Report". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at claudia@calhealthreport.org

‌‌‌دونالد ترامپ: محاصره بنادر جمهوری اسلامی ایران در دوره آتش‌بس نتایج موفقیت‌آمیزی به‌دنبال دارد

Hasta 15 años de cárcel arriesga una mujer que disparó por error a su amiga en las afueras de un...

در سایه بی‌ثباتی اقتصادی و فشارهای مداوم، زندگی روزمره بسیاری از مردم به میدان مبارزه‌ای خاموش برای تأمین حداقل‌ها تبدیل شده است.جایی که گرانی و فقر به بخشی از واقعیت عادی زندگی بدل شده‌اند

چالش‌های مهاجران افغان در اقتصاد غیررسمی ایران

کانادا، مهدی تاج رئیس فدراسیون فوتبال جمهوری اسلامی را راه نداد و به ایران بازگرداند

Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with news on the city’s public school system.The Philadelphia Board of Education voted Thursday to move forward with the district’s plan to close 17 schools beginning in 2027. Board members took their 6-3 vote remotely after fleeing an intense and heated meeting where students, educators, and state and city policymakers demanded the plan be rejected. The vote means the district will kick off the process to close more than 4,000 students’ schools and reshape Philadelphia’s school district.The $3 billion plan would also colocate and relocate several schools and modernize nearly 170 school buildings. Superintendent Tony Watlington has said adopting the plan is necessary to provide better educational opportunities and high-quality school buildings for all students. The district plans to put $1 billion toward it and raise the other $2 billion from government and philanthropic grants. Ahead of the vote, members of City Council shouted down board members urging them to “Shut it down!” and students yelled “Shame on you!” Councilmember Isaiah Thomas, chair of the city’s Education Committee, called for the resignation of every board member who voted for the closures, interrupted the meeting several times and promised a lawsuit would land Friday.Philadelphia Councilmember Isaiah Thomas and other members of City Council rally the crowd calling to shut down the Board of Education meeting on April 30, 2026.Board President Reginald Streater, Vice-President Sarah-Ashley Andrews, Joan Stern, ChauWing Lam, Cheryl Harper, and Joyce Wilkerson voted in favor of the plan. “We cannot fully modernize every building, ignore enrollment shifts, or postpone action anymore,” said Streater. “We must call the question today before financial instability forces the hands of all of us in this room.”Five of nine board members vote to approve school closuresStudents, educators, and families packed the meeting, holding signs and blowing whistles. But few were allowed to testify to the board. Though school board meetings generally must have a public comment period, Thursday’s meeting was technically a continuation of the meeting that the board adjourned last week. That meant only people who had previously signed up to speak were allowed to address board members. After Streater changed the meeting to be virtual, few people were online to give their comments. Microphones were removed from the meeting room where some people — including the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers President Arthur Steinberg — waited to testify.Graham Williamson, a 10th grader at Lankenau Environmental Science High School, said he was inspired to see members of City Council fighting to keep his school open. But he said he had been telling school leaders to keep his school open since the district first announced its plan earlier this year. “I’ve talked a lot already,” Williamson said. “I think it should be enough.”Board members who voted against the proposal said they agreed that some closures are necessary. But they pointed out what they said were major problems with the plan, like its $3 billion price tag that the district does not have the funds to pay for and scarce details about what support would be available for students at closing schools.The plan “will not lead to improved academic outcomes, it’s not financially viable, and it does not get us to the stated goal of 90% building utilization,” said board member Crystal Cubbage, who voted against the plan alongside Whitney Jones and Wanda Novalés.All board members said they acknowledged that closing schools is a difficult and emotional decision. Even those who supported the plan said they had concerns. But they said the board needs to act to address the district’s declining enrollment, buildings with hundreds of empty seats, and enormous school repair costs.“We must start now,” said Stern. “We cannot postpone this.”Vote kicks off school closures, but plan could changeThe district’s proposal would begin closing schools at the start of the 2027-28 school year. But there’s a legal process the plan has to go through before any of that happens. And lawsuits could derail the timeline further.The board’s vote essentially directs the district to begin the process of closing schools. School leaders could still change the plan before the district implements it.By the meeting’s conclusion, board members disappeared quietly through back doors and more than a dozen police officers stood guard outside the board’s office.But parents, teachers, and students have told district leadership they will not go quietly.“We will be here until the last person is removed from this building,” 29-year veteran Penn Treaty Middle School teacher Kristen Young said Wednesday at a rally to protest her school’s closure. “And that will likely have to be by force.”Rebecca Redelmeier is a reporter at Chalkbeat Philadelphia. She writes about public schools, early childhood education, and issues that affect students, families, and educators across Philadelphia. Contact Rebecca at rredelmeier@chalkbeat.org.Carly Sitrin is the bureau chief for Chalkbeat Philadelphia. Contact Carly at csitrin@chalkbeat.org.

When affordable housing is scarce, a common barrier for low-income or homeless would-be tenants is finding a place that accepts housing vouchers.  Housing vouchers are subsidies provided by the federal […] The post ‘Game changer’ service makes it easier for Wichita tenants with housing vouchers find homes appeared first on KLC Journal - A Civic Issues Magazine from the Kansas Leadership Center

A lawsuit filed against the City of Hardin and its former police chief says they violated the civil rights of an owner of a tow-truck company after she publicly complained about getting kicked off the city’s rotation list, and lost a potential source of income. Laurie Tschetter owns GV Towing in Hardin and filed a […]

Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Wisconsin’s free newsletter here.The Wisconsin Elections Commission on Thursday overruled controversial ballot-counting decisions in Mequon and Madison, ordering the cities to revise final tallies in their Wisconsin Supreme Court election results.Madison counted 23 late-arriving ballots that the commission voted should not have been included, while Mequon threw out five ballots the commission said should have been counted. The commission voted 6-0 to investigate both city clerks’ offices and ordered changes to the counts — voting 5-1 to require Madison and Dane County to exclude the 23 ballots, and 6-0 to require Mequon and Ozaukee County to count the five.The deadline for the state to certify the election is May 15, but some commissioners acknowledged the likelihood that lawsuits over today’s decisions could come before then.In Madison, poll workers on Election Day counted 23 absentee ballots that arrived at four polling places after 8 p.m. Tuesday, despite a state law requiring that absentee ballots be “delivered to the polling place no later than 8 p.m.” in order to be tallied.There was some debate ahead of the Madison vote because Commission Chair Ann Jacobs and Commissioner Mark Thomsen, both Democrats, said they felt uncomfortable disenfranchising the 23 voters. But Jacobs said she was following the law in ordering Madison to redo its count, adding that she hoped “those voters will perhaps appeal this decision.” “We’re going to disenfranchise 23 people,” said Thomsen, the lone no vote. “I don’t think the law requires us to do that.”Voting in favor, Don Millis, a Republican commissioner, said the commission is bound by state law not to count those ballots.“There has to be some accountability,” he added, “for the failure to get these ballots to the polling places in a timely manner.”Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell, a Democrat, told Votebeat that he’s considering suing over the agency’s order. McDonell previously voted to count the late-arriving ballots during the county’s canvass.“It’s disappointing that the Wisconsin Election Commission’s directive is to reject ballots that were properly cast by voters,” Madison Clerk Lydia McComas said in a statement.This marks the second significant error from the Madison clerk’s office in recent elections. In 2024, officials didn’t count 193 ballots that arrived at the city well ahead of Election Day, leading to investigations and a lawsuit.Mequon redo comes amid confusion over clerk’s standardThe decision to investigate Mequon came after City Clerk Caroline Fochs decided not to count five ballots under an unusually strict standard for the witness address field on absentee ballot envelopes. Commissioners and staff found that decision to be an abuse of discretion.For years, Fochs has used a standard contrary to the commission’s guidance, which is to consider a witness address valid if it includes a street name, number, and municipality.Instead, if a witness lists a municipality that shares a name with another elsewhere in the country and does not include a ZIP code or state — even though the absentee envelope doesn’t call for them — Fochs told Votebeat she does not count the ballot. If the municipality name is unique, she will count it without a ZIP code or state. In this latest election, those municipalities were Baltimore, Fox Point, Verona and Houston.“The idea that someone would Google to find out whether or not there’s multiple Veronas in the United States, but not Google the witness’s address to confirm where they were located just strikes me as an odd choice, and contrary to the applicable law,” Jacobs said.A Votebeat review of Mequon ballots rejected since 2024 found that Fochs in some cases appeared to have misapplying her own standard — rejecting ballots from municipalities that didn’t share a name with any other city, like Chicago and Fox Point.Referencing Votebeat’s reporting, Jacobs said those people’s votes “were not counted for any good reason.”Fochs and her city attorney have defended the city’s standard as a proper use of discretion despite coming under fire for it. Fochs didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.Speaking with Votebeat after the votes, Millis said that although mistakes happen from time to time, clerks need to understand that there can be consequences for errors “if you don’t follow the law and take reasonable efforts to make sure that all ballots are counted.”Pointing out that he was a Republican commissioner, Millis said he also has a partisan interest in making sure votes in Mequon, a traditionally GOP city, are counted.“We shouldn’t be doing things to make it difficult for anyone to vote, but here, from just even a partisan standpoint, on average, it’s hurting Republicans more than Democrats,”Alexander Shur is a reporter for Votebeat based in Wisconsin. Contact Alexander at ashur@votebeat.org.

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