May 22—Aldermen voted unanimously this week to extend the deadline to complete a comprehensive study of Manchester city employees’ pay another year, despite a committee recommendation to scrap the effort. Members of the Committee on Community Improvement voted 3-2 earlier this month to receive and file a request from Lisa Drabik, the city’s human resources […]
Good morning, Chicago. The ShotSpotter gunshot detection system could get another chance to stick around in Chicago as aldermen try to wrest control over the technology’s future from Mayor Brandon Johnson. Aldermen on Monday advanced an order to give the City Council final say over violence prevention funding efforts removed by the mayor, such as […]
EAST FELICIANA PARISH, La. (BRPROUD) — East Feliciana Parish voters elected Howard Henderson II, No Party, as the next Slaughter police chief and “Mitch” Harrell, Democrat, as Jackson’s marshal in complete but unofficial results. Henderson had 63% of the vote in complete but unofficial results, according to the Louisiana Secretary of State website. Chance Davis, […]
CHICAGO – Twenty-eight aldermen from the Chicago City Council sent a letter to Chairperson Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez of the Committee on Health and Human Relations to ask for a resolution surrounding the conflict in the Middle East not to be submitted for consideration this month. “We understand colleagues are working to improve the resolution surrounding […]