Apr. 22—MORGANTOWN — Mountain State Justice, a statewide nonprofit legal services and advocacy organization, has filed suit against the city of Morgantown in the Northern District of West Virginia, claiming the city’s enforcement of a 2005 panhandling ordinance is unconstitutional. According to a press release, the suit has been filed on behalf of Anthony Rowand […]
Mar. 4—ALBUQUERQUE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said she is leaning toward calling a special legislative session to address two public safety issues that did not reach her desk during the recently completed annual meeting of the state Legislature. During a news conference Monday at an Albuquerque high school where she signed four public safety […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Charlotte City Council members discussed Monday recriminalizing infractions that Uptown residents say pose a public health risk. City leaders have the option to increase the penalty for drinking alcohol on public property, sleeping in parks and soliciting cash in the street or median. They may also enforce harsher penalties […]
Jan. 19—Lori Sena stood in the median of Paseo de Peralta late Thursday morning, holding out a cardboard sign that read, “Help us, please.” She occasionally stepped toward drivers who stopped at the light on St. Francis Drive and held money out their windows for her. Sena was hoping to get enough money to buy […]
Dec. 31—MORGANTOWN — The Monongalia County Commission maintains the lowest tax rate in West Virginia and lowered its budget by roughly 7 % in 2023. That, in and of itself, would constitute a year end story in an age when government has seemingly embraced its role as everyone’s favorite extraction industry. But there’s more. “I […]