April 2021

For the editor, Mandates!Department heads throw this word around during budget time as a four-letter word. Most of the time, unfunded state or federal mandates are used to explain tax and budget increases. Well, we can blame liberal…

With Derek Chauvin's murder conviction still fresh; with Elizabeth City still in turmoil after the police murder of Andrew Brown Jr; and a new round of ongoing debate over North Carolina laws on the public's right to see police body…

As aldermen showed up for the city council's first in-person meeting in a year on Wednesday, protesters honked their horns, banged drums and blew brass instruments during a march around City Hall in support of a plan blocked aimed at…

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – A major decision for the city of Springfield. A Hampden Superior Court judge ordered Mayor Domenic Sarno to appoint a civilian police commission. The start of a police council would mean the…

A majority of the city council's Hispanic caucus approved a civilian police oversight plan -- already rejected by Mayor Lori Lightfoot -- to fix what he called a 'broken' accountability system unmasked by Adam's police shooting Toledo,…