Tompkins County Legislature approves homeless shelter property purchase The Tompkins County Legislature voted Tuesday to buy property for a new homeless shelter. Last month, the county’s only year-round shelter, operated by St. John’s Community Services, closed. 12/4/2024 - 8:16 pm | View Link
Proposed Homeless Bill of Rights makes moves in State House The bill seeks to provide protected rights to the unhoused, such as freedom of movement, non-discrimination, and access to medical care. 11/20/2024 - 3:04 pm | View Link
In late November, more than three weeks after Election Day, GOP Rep. Michelle Steel conceded to Democrat Derek Tran in one of the most hotly contested US House races in the country. In the end, Tran won by roughly 650 votes in Southern California’s 45th congressional district, making it one of the country’s closest contests and helping ensure that the Republican House majority will be among the narrowest in history.
In an election cycle in which Republicans made big gains in California and among Asian-American voters nationwide, the CA-45 race stood out.
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Three low-income school districts in Texas have granted more than $2 billion in tax relief to new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals on the Gulf Coast, according to a report released Monday by the Sierra Club, which tallied publicly available data on agreements between companies and local public entities.
Those tax breaks, intended to attract investment and employment opportunities, totaled about $4 million per permanent post-construction job promised by developers of the gas projects, said the 34-page report, “The People Always Pay: Tax Breaks Force Gulf Communities to Subsidize the LNG Industry.”
Sierra Club researchers compiled dozens of different tax agreements from 15 LNG projects in Texas and Louisiana that are currently operating, under construction or planned.
Lara Trump will step down as co-chair of the Republican National Committee as she considers a number of potential options with her father-in-law, President-elect Donald Trump, set to return to the White House.
Among those possibilities is replacing Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, whom Trump tapped to be the next secretary of state.
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