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Miami mayor's tech Twitter campaign caught Elon Musk's attention. What's next?
Less than 72 hours after a brief online exchange with the world's wealthiest tech mogul, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez was still crowing about the moment Wednesday morning. "When you're tweeting with Elon Musk at 4 o'clock in the morning — and you have the county mayor getting involved as well — you know that something special is going on," a black-masked Suarez said from the back of the Miami-Dade Commission chambers after endorsing a resolution promoting the recruitment of technology firms to the county. "Amazing things can happen." The last several weeks saw Suarez emerge as a new favorite of ...
Miami Herald
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Cynthia M. Allen: Don’t stew over Washington. Focus on family, community, local government instead
After Donald Trump was elected in 2016, I wrote that the most important task for people — particularly those disconcerted by his election (as I was) — was to focus on the things closer to home. Community. Family. We spend untold amounts of time obsessing over what goes on in Washington, D.C., and who is in charge, when most of what matters and affects our lives on a daily basis occurs within our households and neighborhoods. When I wrote those words, I had not anticipated the events of Jan. 6. The Capitol — the seat of power in our democratic republic — was sacked by an angry (albeit small and...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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Companies are dumping Trump brand in wake of Capitol insurrection. But can Chicago shed Trump Tower’s giant sign?
With the House having impeached President Donald Trump for a second time and corporate America distancing itself in the wake of the deadly Capitol insurrection, the Trump brand is taking a beating in the waning days of his presidency. Even as pressure mounts to remove the president’s name from his signature property in Chicago, the Trump International Hotel & Tower, the brand may be hard to shed, potentially looming over the city for years to come. Ald. Gilbert Villegas, Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s City Council floor leader, earlier this week said he plans to introduce an ordinance this month to re...
Chicago Tribune
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Biden nominates Atlanta mayor for Democratic National Committee post
ATLANTA — President-elect Joe Biden has nominated Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms for a position with the Democratic National Committee that would place her in charge of civic engagement and voter protection, according to a Thursday evening news release from the campaign. “Mayor Bottoms is the only Mayor in Atlanta’s history to have served in all three branches of government, serving as a judge and City Councilmember before being sworn in as Mayor,” the release said. “Leading with a progressive agenda focused on equity and affordable housing, Mayor Bottoms serves as Chair of the Community D...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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NYC to terminate all contracts with Trump, Mayor de Blasio says, citing deadly Capitol siege
NEW YORK – New York City is canceling contracts with the Trump Organization, Mayor de Blasio said Wednesday, citing the commander-in-chief’s incitement of the deadly siege of the U.S. Capitol last week. “The President incited a rebellion against the United States government that killed five people and threatened to derail the constitutional transfer of power,” de Blasio said in a statement. “The City of New York will not be associated with those unforgivable acts in any shape, way or form, and we are immediately taking steps to terminate all Trump Organization contracts.” The announcement came...
New York Daily News
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot again tries to pass civilian oversight of Police Department
CHICAGO — Aldermen and Mayor Lori Lightfoot are taking yet another crack at establishing civilian oversight of the Chicago Police Department, but Lightfoot won’t predict how long it will take to adopt a plan that she and other officials have been promising for years. The City Council Public Safety Committee met Tuesday to accept amended versions of the long-gestating Grassroots Alliance for Police Accountability and Civilian Police Accountability Council ordinances, at a time when the fallout from the wrongful 2019 police raid in Anjanette Young’s home has again brought increased public scruti...
Chicago Tribune
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Cuomo outlines NY's COVID-19 vaccination plans after putting NYC and hospitals on notice over slow rollout
ALBANY, N.Y. — A day after threatening slow-moving hospitals and city officials, Gov. Andrew Cuomo vowed to expedite the COVID-19 immunization process and outlined New York’s future vaccination plans. Thousands of sites across the state including pharmacies, urgent care centers, the Javits Center and even SUNY and CUNY campuses will be used to distribute doses for the general public, once available, the governor said. “The distribution system outlined can deliver millions of doses, we are getting 300,000 per week,” he said during a briefing in Albany. “We have to wait for that to increase. Aga...
New York Daily News
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Trump rally divides north Georgia community hit hard by COVID-19
DALTON, Ga. — Roger Crossen served his country in the U.S. Army with stints in Japan and Italy. He taught high school students and refereed and coached them on football fields and basketball courts. He led Whitfield County’s Recreation Department before winning election to the County Commission. “It was always about other people and always about what was best for the county,” said his son, Chris Crossen, Dalton’s assistant police chief. “He made it easy to be around him and love him.” Roger Crossen’s death on Nov. 17 left a gaping hole in this tightknit north Georgia community best-known as th...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot meets with Anjanette Young as city inspector general opens investigation into the case
CHICAGO — Mayor Lori Lightfoot met with Anjanette Young on Thursday and the two had “a lengthy, very candid and productive conversation about the unacceptable raid” on the social worker’s home in which Chicago police handcuffed her naked, according to a joint statement. Lightfoot and Young also discussed “a number of systemic changes necessary to address the wrongs done not only to Ms. Young, but also to other victims,” said the statement. The meeting, which was first reported by WBBM-Ch. 2, came on the same day the city’s inspector general announced an investigation into the matter and after ...
Chicago Tribune
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Chicago Mayor Lightfoot was told by staff in November 2019 that errant raid was ‘pretty bad’
CHICAGO — A top aide to Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot told her the botched raid on Anjanette Young’s home, in which Chicago police handcuffed the social worker naked, was “pretty bad” in November 2019, newly released emails show. In an email sent on Nov. 11, 2019, former deputy mayor for public safety Susan Lee forwarded a summary of WBBM-Ch. 2′s reporting on the case to Lightfoot and said, “please see below for a pretty bad wrongful raid coming out tomorrow.” The summary said Young was handcuffed by police and officers “allegedly left her standing for 40 minutes handcuffed and naked while all-...
Chicago Tribune
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