signaling it could be strong enough to overcome any threat of a filibuster. the new legislation comes in the wake of several mass shootings across the country including an attack on a texas elementary school that claimed the lives of 19 little children and two teachers. for the latest let s bring in daniella diaz on capitol hill. this is significant. what do we know about what is in this potential new bill? amara, i want to emphasize the point you made. this is just a framework. no legislative text yet. but important to note that there are ten republicans that supported this framework signed the press releases that were sent out when that news broke a little over two hours ago. i m going to talk a little bit about what s in this framework. it has proposals to support a state crisis intervention orders. investments in children and family mental health services. protections for victims of domestic violence. funding for school-based mengts health and supportive services. fundi
i m sad. move ahead. do not look back. i want to make the world a better place. reporter: the former arizona congresswoman leads a grass roots k, giffords. fight. fight. fight. reporter: dedicated to stopping gun violence. the kind that almost took her life during a constituent event on 2011. the mission is simple. save lives. save lives. save lives. reporter: i think we have made a lot of progress. reporter: robin loyd is the organization s director. gabby has spent a lot of her time doing that the last nine or ten years. trying to draw attention to the issue, use her voice where she can to enact change. and we ve seen a lot of that happen. reporter: i interviewed you in 2013 two years after gun violence almost took your life. if you were to name the number one thing that congress could do to prevent the kind of violence
Everything was there and then it wasn t : Developers allowed to skirt tree ordinance
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Trees were bulldozed to make way for new housing next to Government Canyon State Natural Area, in the background.Billy Calzada /Billy Calzada
In 2019, a city environmental plans examiner emailed then-state Rep. Roland Gutierrez to inform him he had violated San Antonio’s tree preservation ordinance by chopping down a large heritage oak without a permit on a lot he was developing.
“There will be a work without permit penalty of $2,000 assessed to your project,” Robin Loyd wrote to Gutierrez, D-San Antonio.
The fine didn’t stick.