Former New Orleans mayor to have public defender (Ray Nagin)
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Associated Press ^
| Sep 3, 2014 10:33 PM EDT
A public defender will handle a former New Orleans mayor’s appeal of his conviction on bribery and money laundering charges. […] According to a questionnaire filed with the court, (Ray) Nagin has just $23.65 in the bank. He
said he, his wife and daughter live each month off of $360 in food stamps and about $500 in gifts and donations. …
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Court rejects appeal of former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin
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Associated Press ^
| Jan. 7, 2016 12:32 PM EST
A federal appeals court has rejected an appeal by former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin, who was convicted in 2014 on corruption charges. The
5th Circuit's U.S. Court of Appeals in a decision filed Thursday upheld Nagin's conviction Nagin, a Democrat who served from 2002 to 2010, was convicted on charges of wire fraud, bribery, money laundering and filing false tax returns. ...
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Ex-New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin heads off to prison for corruption
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The Washington Times. ^
| September 8, 2014 | Cheryl K. Chumley
Video at link: The former mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, shuffled off Monday to serve a 10-year federal prison term on corruption convictions stemming from the city’s years-long recovery of Hurricane Katrina devastations. Mr.
Nagin is serving out his sentence in Texarkana, Texas, Reuters reported.
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After IS, a painful return for residents of Iraq's Fallujah
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Fox News ^
| September 23, 2016 | AP via Fox News
FALLUJAH, Iraq – In the three days since the Iraqi city of Fallujah was reopened for residents following its recapture from the Islamic State group, just over 500 families have returned home, Maj. Gen. Saad al-Harbea, the head of west Baghdad operations, said. Hundreds
more have massed around the checkpoints that block the city's entrance to await the multiple security approvals required to re-enter Fallujah, which lies 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of the Iraqi capital. But the vast majority of the 300,000 people that made up the city's prewar population remain scattered across the country.
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Return to sender: DC voters are being sent mail-in ballots for ex-residents
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Fox News ^
| October 01 2020 | Tyler Olson
The Washington, D.C., Board of Elections (DCBOE) is instructing residents who receive mail-in ballots for previous residents of their apartments or homes to mark the ballots "return to sender" and put them back in the mail after numerous reports of voters getting such ballots in error. The
misaddressed ballots are a symptom of a common problem for many boards of elections around the country -- outdated voter rolls that include people who are dead or have changed addresses. The DCBOE responded on Twitter Wednesday to several tweets from voters who said they got mail-in ballots addressed to previous residents of...
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What Does It Feel Like To Lose Everything–Oroville Dam Residents Return Home–Some Refuse
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IWB ^
| Pamela Williams
Some officials failed to act until people were scurrying to flea their homes without any notice. They
had no time to get anything packed, but did grab their pets…thank God for that, as pets are a vital life force for humanity. Whether they realize it now, they can make a home from scratch with their family, pets, and the kindness of strangers. Praise God for the Red Cross and other charities. We must stress the kindness of strangers in this world of a failing humanity, as those strangers represent the best in us. Nguyen and his family had spent all...
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Several Marshfield residents push for return of 'Christmas' to school calendar
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Patriot Ledger (Mass.) ^
| October 15, 2014 | Jessica Trufant
MARSHFIELD – Residents opposed to a school committee vote to remove the word “Christmas” from the school calendar say the decision promotes religious intolerance and censorship. At
a school committee meeting Tuesday night, several residents asked members to reconsider the September vote that changed the name “Christmas vacation” to “holiday break” on the calendar. The vacation week begins on Christmas Eve and ends the Monday after New Year’s Day.
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American Greed on CNBC - Ray Nagin - New Orleans Shakedown (hurricane Katrina)
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CNBC ^
| 10/08/16
Ray Nagin - New Orleans Shakedown Season 10 Episode 111 Aired 03-31-2016 tv-pg Disgraced former mayor exploits the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina to pocket bribes and live large.
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New York’s Mayor Goes After Jewish Residents Again
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dailysignal ^
| 5/20/20 | Nicole Russell
For the second time since the COVID-19 pandemic became a daily battle between disease control and civil liberties, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has taken to Twitter to criticize the peaceful assembly of Jews in a city that boasts over a million Jewish residents. This
time, de Blasio specifically targeted children meeting at a yeshiva, an Orthodox Jewish elementary or secondary school. Just a few weeks ago, the mayor slammed his city’s Jewish community for gathering to grieve at a large funeral for a beloved rabbi. Writing for The Daily Signal, I said de Blasio’s behavior was un-American and...
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A Michigan county tells its residents to ignore coronavirus restrictions and ‘return to normal life’
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mlive ^
| 9/13/20 | Samuel Dodge
ALCONA COUNTY, MI - The language in a rural Michigan county board resolution defying statewide coronavirus restrictions alluded to the civil disobedience shown at the Boston Tea Party. “We are not advocating for overthrow or abolishment,” according to Alcona County Resolution 2020-13, “but if these practices continue, (we advocate for) civil disobedience
and ignoring the over-reaching and oppressive Executive Orders that have been inflicted on our citizens, akin to the Boston Tea Party, which was respectful to the cargo vessels but not the cargo itself.” Instead of tossing tea into the water, the “cargo” in this case would mean “a...
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De Blasio suggests Cuomo is wrong to ask New York City's wealthy to return, says residents shouldn't buy cars
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foxnews.com ^
| August 6, 2020 | Morgan Phillips
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday suggested that Gov. Andrew Cuomo was wrong to call on wealthy New Yorkers to return to the city amid the coronavirus pandemic and an uptick in crime. The
Democrat also threatened to tax the wealthy even further if the federal government does not do more to assist the city, which is facing the worst financial crisis in decades. Thousands of apartments were vacated as the wealthy fled the city during the pandemic to seek refuge in places such as the Hamptons and Connecticut. De Blasio said the city was tracking those who'd left. He acknowledged...
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Fukushima town lifts evacuation order, allowing former residents to return 11 years after nuclear disaster
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CNN ^
| August 30, 2022 | Emiko Jozuka and Jessie Yeung,
The town of Futaba, previously deemed off-limits, is the last of 11 districts to lift its evacuation order, a spokesman for the town's municipal office told CNN. On March 11, 2011, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck off Japan's east coast, triggering a tsunami that caused a nuclear meltdown at the power plant and
a major release of radioactive material. It was the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986. More than 300,000 people living near the nuclear plant were forced to evacuate temporarily; thousands more did so voluntarily. Once-bustling communities were turned into ghost towns. In the years since, large-scale...
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I blame the mayor’: residents fume at de Blasio, AOC over flood
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NY post ^
| 9/6/21 | Julia Marsh
I blame the mayor’: residents fume at de Blasio, AOC over flood Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gave Mayor Bill de Blasio a pass for failing to warn New Yorkers about the fatal storm that lashed the city last week — preferring to pin the blame on climate change — but her Queens constituents
slammed Hizzoner and other city officials for their lack of preparedness. “I don’t blame climate change, I blame the mayor,” Danette Rivera, 47, told The Post outside her Woodside home Monday morning after de Blasio, AOC, Sen. Charles Schumer and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell toured her block.
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Jerusalem mayor calls on residents to carry guns
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The Times Of Israel ^
| 10/8/2015 | Staff
Nir Barkat says citizens are often those to foil terror attacks, backs school strike over limited security guards’ hours Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat on Thursday encouraged all Israelis with a gun license to carry a weapon with them at all times in order to counter a recent wave of Palestinian attacks. The
mayor’s call to arms came after several weeks in which the capital was rocked by several stabbing incidents as well as rock and Molotov cocktail attacks. The focus of violence was in and around the Old City and its Temple Mount compound. In an interview with Army Radio,...
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NYC MAYOR DE BLASIO GUARANTEES HEALTH CARE FOR ALL RESIDENTS
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Newsweek ^
| 2018-01-08 21:00 | BENJAMIN FEARNOW
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday that all residents, regardless of citizenship status or ability to pay, will be guaranteed comprehensive health care. The
recently re-elected Democratic mayor of the country's largest city announced on MSNBC Tuesday the government will pay for any and all resident's comprehensive care, including those who aren't eligible to receive comprehensive Medicaid coverage. The city's more than 600,000 uninsured residents, including its more than 300,000 undocumented residents, are included in this de Blasio guarantee.
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Costs to Shelter Homeless Grow, D.C. Mayor Wants Non-City Residents Out
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WMAL radio Washington D.C. FM 105.9 ^
| 29 November 2016 | Steve Burns for WMAL radio
As Costs to Shelter Homeless Grow, D.C. Mayor Wants Non-City Residents Out Posted on November 29, 2016 Steve Burns WMAL.com WASHINGTON – (WMAL) As costs continue soaring to house the District’s homeless population, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser Tuesday said the District should put an end to housing non-District residents in the city’s
homeless shelters. “If we are serving everybody else’s residents, we can’t serve our own,” Bowser said during a Mayor-Council breakfast Tuesday morning. “We have an obligation to serve our residents, but we cannot serve the entire region.” City officials say costs are expanding rapidly as the homeless population...
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Chicago mayor tells residents to stop using cash if they don't want to keep getting mugged
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News Channel 20 ^
| January 20, 2023 | Alec Schemmel
CHICAGO (TND) — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has proposed a solution to end rampant crime in her city: Stop using cash. Lightfoot
suggested those afraid of being mugged opt to use digital forms of payments instead. During a debate for Lightfoot’s upcoming race to regain control of her seat, the topic of safety concerns, particularly those of street vendors, came up. We have been in Little Village working with street vendors, understanding what the nature of the crime is, making sure we're doing things in concert with them to help them make sure that their money is secure, not use...
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California Mayor Paying Residents Not To Commit Violent Crimes
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Hotair ^
| 07/11/2018 | Jazz Shaw
Back in May, we looked at a story out of Stockton, California, where their new, young mayor, Michael Tubbs had some unusual plans in mind. Stockton
is frequently plagued with violent crime and deals with endemic poverty issues. Tubbs wanted to find a unique way to help some people out. A few of his ideas were clearly well intended and forward thinking. For example, he was partnering with private sector benefactors to try to offer college scholarships for qualifying students without further burdening the municipal budget.Some of his other ideas were a bit more, um… out there. And he’s...
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Vanity: Mayor of DC Requiring Residents to have Photo ID and Vaccine Card
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Vanity ^
Mayor Muriel Bowser @MayorBowser Remember that starting Saturday you will need these three things before heading out: 1. Proof
of Vaccination (12 years +) 2. Proof of Vaccination and Photo ID (18 years +) 3. Mask For more information visit http://vaxdc.dc.gov.
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Mayor, residents show support for police with rally in Suffern
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News12 Westchester ^
| 7/12/20
Hundreds gathered in the Village of Suffern Sunday afternoon for a peaceful rally to show support for police officers.The rally started with words from a few keynote speakers, including Suffern Mayor Ed Markunas. Participants also gave the pledge of allegiance, sang the national anthem and observed a moment of silence for fallen
police officers. The group then took to the streets for a peaceful march, waving flags and holding signs to show their support. "With everything that's going on, how police are being ambushed and vilified, I felt that I couldn't sit any longer and just watch and do nothing...
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