L.A. County gives probation chief emergency powers over workforce

Los Angeles County is giving its embattled probation director new powers and cutting back on county staff as the agency defies a state order to close Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey due to staffing shortages. agreed to authorize the department to temporarily relocate the department. Supervisors voted 4-1 Tuesday to declare a “local state […]

San Francisco ties welfare to drug-screening, boosts police powers

San Francisco – Mayor London Breed was all smiles on Tuesday during a packed preliminary party in Hayes Valley, a boutique neighborhood about a half-mile from City Hall, and took selfies and congratulations as she made her way through a crowded bar to a microphone. I stopped for. “Change is coming!” Breed yelled to thunderous […]

Lake Powell Chronicle | Page City Council signals shift in management powers

Author: Bob Hembree Updated: 6 hours ago / Posted: January 17, 2024 Increased costs have peripheral effects. If there was a theme to the Jan. 10 Page City Council meeting, it was checks and balances and council micromanagement. Tom Geiger, retired from the National Park Service, is a member of the Page Utility Enterprises Board. […]

Geophysics Report Reveals Large Lithium Target at MAX Power’s Arizona Property

Max Power Mining Corporation VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 24, 2023 (Globe Newswire) — MAX Power Mining Corp. (CSE: MAXX; OTC: MAXXF; FSE: 89N) (“MAX Power” or the “Company”) announced that a recently completed geophysical study by Hasbrouck Geophysics, Inc. on its wholly-owned Wilcox Playa Project (3,754 acres) in Arizona revealed multiple announced that a high-concentration […]

Minnesota Appeals Court upholds Governor’s COVID Emergency Powers

ST. PAUL (AP) — The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled Monday that Gov. Tim Walz had the legal authority to require the wearing of masks when he declared a public health emergency early in the COVID-19 pandemic. made a judgment that Waltz declared a peacetime emergency in March 2020 and mandated mask wearing in most […]

Citing ‘plenary powers,’ GOP leader claims a non-binding resolution bans Arizona election machines | State

Photo by Gage Skidmore (Retouched) | flicker/CC BY-SA 2.0 Arizona’s Republican state senators declared Monday that the use of machines to count ballots is prohibited in Arizona counties, arguing that the non-binding resolution supersedes state law. The allegations were quickly denied by election officials, state attorneys general, and county leaders. Senate Majority Leader Sonny Borelli […]