L.A. City Council approves phaseout of oil drilling
Some Porter Ranch residents are stunned to see their SoCalGas bills triple during the winter months.
"Starting today, I have a little bit more hope for our communities," said Ashley Hernandez, an organizer with Communities for a Better Environment, at the press conference. Hernandez grew up in Wilmington, a Los Angeles neighborhood packed with oil wells."Our futures will hopefully not be full of emergency room visits, bloody noses or burdensome health impacts, but a cleaner future where black and brown families are the ones protected and valued.
"Taking someone's property without compensation, particularly one which is duly permitted and highly regulated, is illegal and violates the U.S. Constitution's 5th Amendment against illegal search and seizure," he said in a statement.
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LA City Council Secures Funding for Affordable HousingThe $118 million project at 1021 N. Vermont Ave., near Santa Monica Boulevard, will have 94 units reserved for extremely low-income households and 91 units reserved for very low-income households. The remaining two units will be reserved for managers.
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Cleveland City Council adopts resolution asking Cleveland-Marshall College of Law to change nameCleveland City Council has adopted a resolution asking Cleveland State's Cleveland-Marshall College of Law to change its name because its namesake, John Marshall, was a slave owner. Councilman Kevin Conwell sponsored the legislation.
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Cleveland City Council responds to the snow plowing conditions in the Hough NeighborhoodAfter a week of cold temperatures and frosted streets, many Clevelanders are tired of hearing the “S word.”
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Aurora woman honored by city council for tireless work to help homelessMirella Acevedo was honored by the Aurora City Council for her tireless work to help the homeless with her group HP24 and More Ministries.
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City Council to hold hearing on surveillance tech purchased with hidden pot of moneyNEW: This comes as a result of a WBUR/propublica investigation that found officials and the public were largely kept in the dark when Boston police spent $627,000 on cellphone tracking equipment using a fund often spent at the discretion of police chiefs:
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