Was Ypsi City Council right to take the parks away from the DTCDC?

A reader of this site calling himself Andy Ypsilanti recently left the following letter to the Mayor and City Council in the comments section and I thought that I’d move it up here, as we’ve yet to really discuss whether or not the recent move by City Council to strip control of Riverside and Frog [...]

Springfield City Council/City Officials Continue to Discuss Nuisance Property Issues

Springfield City Attorney Dan Wichmer and Springfield Prosecuting Attorney Johnnie Burgess began educating the City Council about the procedure undertaken when nuisance complaints are filed by local residents, at the Council’s last luncheon. Wichmer said the nuisance ordinance ( ORD5465 ) adopted by the City Council in 2005, was based on a similar University City, [...]

alexandria, la. doctor wonders if the louisiana state bar has a code of ethics

dr. peter l. couvillion, in his 21 january 2009 gannett/town talk, ‘your mail:’ “city council, straighten up” [link or download .pdf] makes the same point that we were attempting to make in our bridgett brown is a trip post.a point for which we were viciously attacked by addle-brained, unethical alexandria, la. attorney greg aymond, la. [...]

Battles Continue Over Planned Parenthood Funding

Photo via Georgia Right to Life Planned Parenthood continues to lose taxpayer funding across the country, but the fight to eliminate funding for the massive pro-abortion organization continues. CUTS IN TEXAS The latest governmental agency to revoke Planned Parenthood funding is the city council in Corpus Christi, Texas.  On Tuesday, members of the council pulled [...]

Los Angeles City Councilmember Calls for Tougher Billboard Ban

Los Angeles City Councilmember Jack Weiss introduced a motion yesterday that would address and fix the colossal problems that have been raised in court cases challenging the city’s sign ordinance. The motion calls for the city’s planning department, Department of Building and Safety and City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo’s office to revise and toughen the 2002 [...]

Termination appeal rejects CFD firing; next stop – the Mayor’s desk

Appeal panel rejects termination. CFD Engineer Steve Sherlock’s 18.5 year career tentatively continues. In what became a marathon of persistence, a termination appeal hearing was conducted at the Clarksville Human Resource Department’s meeting room. The hearing was for Clarksville Fire Dept. Engineer Steve Sherlock in his quest to continue his service with the city’s fire [...]

Hot Topics in Food Illness Litigation

Hot Topics in Food Illness Litigation Posted on May 27, 2008 by Food Poisoning Attorney I (www.billmarler.com) am off to Eastern Washington a bit later this morning to give a talk at the “Farm-to-Table” Conference. My talk is on “Hot Topics in Food Illness Litigation.” It is also a bit of a homecoming – I [...]

Councilmembers Offered Legal Help in Accounting Probe (WNYC New York Public Radio)

A memo obtained by WNYC says city council members are being offered free legal representation in the ongoing federal probe into the council’s bookkeeping. WNYC’s Bob Hennelly reports: REPORTER: The …. More: continued here Tags: 2008, City Council, E, GA, New York, The

Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick And Textual Relations

Source: Flickr We are always so quick to say politicians are all crooked or that politicians only work for Big Business but we must say that with a caveat, we are the ones who elect these politicians. From the President right down to the City Council, we vote the good ones in and we vote [...]