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LOS ANGELES-There is nothing more boring than a budget hearing schedule.
I attended my first ever budget kickoff for the County of Los Angeles and was informed by Mike Antonovich that I would be given sixty seconds to address the entire $28 billion budget at the time.
I thought that seemed right as no other speakers, save the chap from SEIU had shown up. I dragged out the government code Government code 29080 and 29081 which were cited by the presiding Mayor of the Board of Supervisors and the budget hearing was closed after 120 seconds of testimony. I urged them to honor GC 29080 and 29081 and reset a second public hearing with fair notice.
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MIAMI, Florida, April 22, 2021 (ENS) – Autonomous air taxis will fly the skies over Miami, Florida by 2024, if plans by California-based Archer Aviation come to fruition. The company’s Miami announcement came a week after Archer executives met with Miami Mayor Francis Suarez to discuss the company’s intention to establish an urban air mobility network in the South Florida city to serve its nearly 500,000 residents.
“We know that infrastructure and transportation solutions in southern Florida must change over the next decade to curb carbon emissions, decrease traffic, and create the multimodal transportation networks of the future,” said Mayor Suarez.
It’s time for a Connecticut Green New Deal
Connecticut’s path to recovery from the coronavirus pandemic is paved with financial obstacles. A recent report from the Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis estimates that the state will take a decade or more to reverse the pandemic’s economic blows. Before the pandemic, Connecticut’s recovery from the 2008 Great Recession was the worst of any state. Now, with converging health, economic, and housing crises, the state needs transformative, radical change.
In other words, Connecticut needs its own Green New Deal.
Nora Massie
The Green New Deal is a comprehensive set of ideas that recognizes the link between health, the environment, the economy, and jobs, refusing to address one without the others.