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San Francisco city official facing charges for allegedly failing to disclose $250K in extra income Published  Rob Roth reports. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - A former bureau manager for San Franciscos Department of Public Works is facing several charges for allegedly failing to disclose more than a quarter-million dollars in outside income, District Attorney Chesa Boudin said Thursday. Gerald "Jerry" Sanguinetti was arrested Thursday and has been charged with five counts of felony perjury and two co...

Por 17 votos a favor, dos abstenciones y un voto en contra, el pleno del Ayuntamiento de Torrelodones aprobó en julio de 2020 una declaración de lesividad contra una resolución aprobada el 19 de marzo de 2019 por la concejalía de Urbanismo, encabezada entonces por Santiago Fernández Muñoz, que ordenaba la devolución de la mencionada fianza de 100.142,67 euros a la empresa Destajos, S.A. Según un informe firmado por el secretario Ayuntamiento, al que ha tenido acceso Vozpópuli, el a...

City. the city is trying more formal solutions what they call tiny villages and dorm rooms, but according to the city controller, the cost of those is running more than half a million dollars per unit. >> we absolutely desperately need more housing for people experiencing homelessness and mental illness and addiction, but, not at a cost of 550-mike $750,000 a door, that is utterly unacceptable. >> we asked the mayor to sit down with us and discuss the homeless crisis, that request was not grante...

Crisis. one of the solutions behind these tents you see on the street here. behind this offense is a new tent encampment. we have some video from inside the fence. you see what you get for $2,600 per month. a 12 by 12 white tape space with a tent on it. you throw in some food and some bathroom facilities, and you get to more than the cost of renting a one-bedroom apartment. there are more permanent solutions being tried. building tiny villages. according to the city controller, those run more th...

The teacher leading the project says it’s an opportunity for the school community to really see and hear each other again. "We’ve spent so much time apart."

LOS ANGELES—The City of Los Angeles could generate millions of dollars in additional tax revenue by putting more ...

15 hours ago According to Principal Stephanie Andrewlevich, Mitchell parents are scared to send their children back to school in person. “Having them not come over the last week because there is fear, cannot continue,” said Andrewlevich at the rally. “So what can we do to rally together to support all of our families and all of our students?” Stephanie Andrewlevich, principal of Mitchell Elementary School in Southwest Philadelphia, talks about her students at an anti-violence rally and ...

Pennsylvania’s primary is Tuesday: Ballot issues, judicial races and more Today 12:00 PM Beyond a slew of local races on ballots, Pennsylvania’s primary election on Tuesday will determine the future of a governor’s authority during disaster declarations and a Republican nominee aiming to keep a state Supreme Court seat in GOP hands. Voters statewide will decide four separate ballot questions, including two that ask voters whether to give state lawmakers much more power over disaster decl...

AP Photo/Matt Slocum It wasn’t a happy Mothers Day for far too many families in the City of Brotherly Love. Last weekend saw 25 people getting shot with seven dying. But this wasn’t some statistical blip on the radar. It’s part of an ongoing trend that has been continuing for months. There have been 186 murders this year as of Monday. That’s a 40% increase from the same period in 2020. That’s double the increase we’ve seen in Chicago, which itself has experienced a 20% jump in killi...

GUEST COMMENTARY- The Los Angeles City Council is the highest paid city council in the nation. It has been ever since councilmembers’ salaries were tied to the salaries of Superior Court Judges.   The linkage is not 70% or 80% of a judge’s salary, but 100%. And the neat thing is that the councilmembers never have to vote on increasing their pay -- which could be awkward if publicized because their pay goes up automatically when judges’ pay goes up.  Currently, a city councilmember make...