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Arnita Miles, community activist and former Winston-Salem police officer, accused Tonya McDaniel, a Forsyth County commissioner, of misappropriating about $47,000 in grant money meant for the Winston-Salem NAACP and pocketing
South Philly Review Philadelphia District Attorney Virtual Candidatesâ Forum Philadelphia District Attorney candidates Larry Krasner, Carlos Vega and Charles Peruto, Jr., will join the Philadelphia Bar Association on March 22 for a virtual Candidatesâ Forum from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Incumbent Krasner faces Vega in the May Democratic primary and Peruto is running as a Republican. The forum is free and open to the public. It will be moderated by Riley Ross, chair of the Board of Governors, who will ask prepared questions and also take select questions from the audience. Registratio...
YOUNGSTOWN — Legislation to reduce the salary of the community development agency director led to a somewhat heated discussion between Mayor Jamael Tito Brown and Councilman Julius Oliver, who is challenging him in the May Democratic primary. The issue at Wednesday’s meeting was changing the salary for Beverly Hosey, first the acting director and then officially appointed to the position in April 2020. At that time, the annual salary was $76,883.87, but city administration officials wanted to reduce it to $72,398.56 because some of the duties were removed from the job description. But th...
For Solveig Spjeldnes, a Democrat running to represent Athensâ first ward on City Council, staking political positions requires strict procedure. First, she must hear from âstakeholdersâ â as she likes to call would-be constituents â about their concerns. To start, she posted messages in the Athens West Side and University Estates Facebook groups asking what concerns are top of mind for first ward residents. Extensive research on each issue comes next. âAs a person who taught policy and advocacy and organizing and the process of coming together to decide to make ...
With all eight City Council seats up for grabs, two without incumbents, this year could bring Athens one of the most competitive election seasons in recent memory. And much of it could end up attributed to the behind-the-scenes organizing of Damon Krane, a longtime area activist and self-proclaimed democratic socialist. In the aftermath of a tense and confrontational election season in 2019 Krane â an Independent who ran an unabashedly pro-tenant, anti-establishment campaign, lost by a wide margin to Democratic Mayor Steve Patterson, followed by failed attempts to reform city policing pr...