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 […]
Billionaire’s Son John Powers Middleton Apologizes To Los Angeles For Letting His Mansions Become Dilapidated

John Powers Middleton, son of the Philadelphia Phillies' owner, apologized Wednesday for the ongoing vandalism at two abandoned mansions in the Hollywood Hills that have sat vacant for years. The property, located at Mulholland Drive and North Sunset Plaza Drive, has been the target of squatters and vandals, and both walls are covered in graffiti. […]
‘Lock Him Up’: Charlamagne Says Biden Should Use Immunity ‘Powers’ To Jail Trump And ‘Protect’ Democracy

Radio host Charlaman the God, in a podcast episode posted to YouTube on Friday, called on President Joe Biden to use the Supreme Court's recent immunity ruling to jail former President Trump and protect democracy. In a July ruling, the Supreme Court ruled that the president enjoys immunity from criminal prosecution for “official duties” performed […]
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 […]
Fox News Legal Analyst Says ‘Real Flaws’ In Appeals Court Ruling Put ‘Separation Of Powers’ At Risk

FOX News legal analyst Greg Jarrett said Tuesday that the federal appeals court's ruling against former President Donald Trump is “seriously flawed.” A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday rejected Trump's claims that he enjoys immunity from prosecution for his efforts to contest the results […]
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 […]
Citing ‘plenary powers,’ GOP leader claims a non-binding resolution bans Arizona election machines

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 sent a letter Monday to all 15 Arizona counties […]