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Following senior's detention: Councilor wants amendments to anti-mendicancy ordinance
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (473+ words) CEBU, Philippines " The arrest of a 68-year-old busker, who was recently released on recognizance, prompted Councilor Pastor Alcover Jr. to move to amend Cebu City's Anti-Mendicancy Ordinance describing the law as outdated and unable to distinguish between artistic street performance…...
Planning commission approves major code reforms aimed at promoting growth
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (623+ words) (The Center Square) " The Metropolitan Planning Commission approved "dramatic" reforms to Shreveport building standards that were interpreted as barriers to business and economic growth for the city. An ordinance to reform city codes for landscape design standards is slated for…...
Mamdani's "Balanced' Budget Relies on Gimmicks, Bailouts, and Borrowed Time
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (196+ words) New York City's budget crisis has been solved. Socialism finally works. Hooray. That's the not-too-believable message from Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday, who assured voters that despite all. .. Mamdani's "Balanced' Budget Relies Posted By: Mercedes44, 5/14/2026 6: 36: 19 AM New York City's budget crisis…...
Boss of NYC's "secret Chinese police station' convicted of acting as illegal "agent'
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (634+ words) A local Chinatown community leader who the feds say ran a secret Chinese "police station" out of a nondescript Manhattan office building was found guilty Wednesday of acting as an illegal foreign agent. "Harry" Lu Jianwang was convicted after evidence…...
The Curious Story of California's Chinese Spy Mayor
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (502+ words) Chinese spying has been going on for decades in American universities and laboratories. But this story starts years ago, before 2015, when Reuters and other people were stunned to learn that a Washington, D. C. , radio station was airing programming that could only…...
LAPD Ordered to Ignore Broken Taillights So Minorities Don't Get "Uncomfortable" [WATCH]
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (613+ words) The Los Angeles City Council has decided that tying the hands of police officers will somehow make the city safer. In a unanimous vote, the Council moved...
Hochul's funny money only enables Mamdani's even-funnier "fiscal plan' for NYC
5+ day, 19+ hour ago (504+ words) Mayor Zohran Mamdani boasted Tuesday that he plugged the city's multibillion-dollar budget gap for the coming fiscal year " but it's only "balanced" with gimmicks that guarantee oceans more red ink in the years ahead. With a late assist from Gov....
Arcadia Mayor Agrees to Plead Guilty over Role as Chinese Foreign Agent
6+ day, 10+ hour ago (20+ words) Federal prosecutors said Eileen Wang admitted to acting "at the direction and control" of the PRC from 2020 to 2022....
Cranston mayor moves to cut senior services, scale back school funding in revised budget
6+ day, 8+ hour ago (783+ words) PROVIDENCE " Cranston Mayor Kenneth J. Hopkins has filed a new budget proposal, one that moves to suspend operations at the city's Senior Center and roll back funding for city schools, after the City Council last month rejected a controversial budget that…...
California mayor to plead guilty to acting as illegal Chinese agent
6+ day, 9+ hour ago (306+ words) Eileen Wang, mayor of Arcadia, Calif. , has agreed to plead guilty to acting as an illegal agent of the People's Republic of China, the U. S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California announced on Monday. Wang, 58, faces up to 10 years…...