This evening I took my first steps to become a local crank. I attended a Board of Education meeting to complain about the contractor that the district is using for beforecare and aftercare, a publicly traded company called Kindercare ($KLC). Part of me thinks I might have been too conciliatory, but these meetings are broadcast live and recorded, so I didn't want to embarrass myself. Maybe I'll get over that with practice. #NewJersey #Kindercare #Localpol #parenting

My informal notes and personal comment from yesterdayโ€™s Wotton-under-Edge Town Council meeting that I attended along with SDC Cllr Braun and SDC/GCC Cllr Linda Cohen.

https://listed.to/@eco_g/70329/wotton-town-council-february-2026

Thereโ€™s an option to subscribe via e-mail on the home page, normally a few e-mails a month.

#SDC #stroud #Gloucestershire #wotton #localpol

Wotton Town Council - February 2026 | Cllr Gareth Kitchen โ€” C...

Wotton Town Council - February 2026 | Cllr Gareth Kitchen โ€” C...

Disgusted and resentful seeing the complicity and negligence coming into the clearest focus.

#USPol #LocalPol #SanteFe #NewMexico #NM

Just discovered that local elections are going to take place here in September. The local council had been taken over by the NSW state government due to bankruptcy - and they said the area would not have elections for the time being. There's also a local constitution referendum on reducing the number of wards. I didn't expect to be voting that soon.

#auspol; #nswpol; #localpol

STATE-LEVEL RACES
DEM GROUP will target seats in

- legislatures in Arizona, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin; the state Houses in Georgia, Michigan and Minnesota;

- and the state Supreme Courts in Michigan, Montana, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas.

- The NDRC also plans to get involved in the governorโ€™s race in New Hampshire

- and the redistricting ballot initiative in Ohio.

#localpol #stateelections #dems
#uspol #news

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/democratic-group-state-races-future-redistricting-rcna146890

Democratic group invests in state-level races this year with an eye on future redistricting cycles

A Democratic group led by former Attorney General Eric Holder is looking to play the long game on redistricting, funneling money and political firepower into state-level races this year in hope of influencing future map-drawing cycles.

NBC News

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QUICK reference on AZ and ALL state judges

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#az judicial #legal #localpol #uspol #news #indivisible

https://boltsmag.org/your-state-by-state-guide-to-the-2024-supreme-court-elections/

Your State-by-State Guide to the 2024 Supreme Court Elections - Bolts

The article was updated in September 2024 to reflect summer primaries, filing deadlines, and new developments in Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, Montana, Oklahoma, and Washington, and reflect new rulings on abortion... Read More

Bolts

Public meetings are the worst, so you might as well play public meeting bingo to keep yourself from screaming. (If you've seen this from me before, this is an updated version.)

#transit #biking #advocacy #YIMBY #localpol

#MinneapolisParking

Parking will be banned from the even side of non-Snow-Emergency routes beginning at 9 PM on Thu 26 Jan 2023 until Apr 1 (unless conditions allow lifting the ban earlier).

โ€ข DO NOT PARK on the EVEN side of streets that are NOT Snow Emergency Routes. You could be ticketed and towed.
โ€ข SNOW EMERGENCY RULES OVERRIDE WINTER PARKING RESTRICTIONS.

(1 of 2)

https://minneapolismn.gov/snow

#Minneapolis #MSP #Mpls #TwinCitiesMN #TwinCities #MNastodon #Minnesota #LocalPol #winter #snow

#LocalPol

EAST PHILLIPS URBAN FARM Community Meeting Sun 22 Jan 2023, 1pm, East Phillips Park Cultural and Community Center.

Stop the legacy of dumping industrial and municipal pollution in East Phillips, a south Minneapolis neighborhood that is notoriously polluted, one of the cityโ€™s poorest, and 78% BIPOC.

#EastPhillipsUrbanFarm #EastPhillipsNeighborhoodInstitute #EPNI #Minneapolis #MNastodon #Minnesota #TwinCitiesMN #TwinCities #MSP #localpolitics #mplspolitics (Thread #1 of 3)

Tampa police chief and body camera provider at odds over mute function tracking

A police body camera provider says Tampa Police Chief Mary O'Connor's claim that the mute function on TPD cameras can't be tracked is inaccurate. On Nov. 18, O'Connor sent council a memo saying that camera company Axon's software can't track the use of a mute function.

Creative Loafing Tampa Bay