Local Action A packed Fort Worth chamber got a unanimous first vote toward a 90-day data center freeze fortworthreport.orgSue Weston owns Weston Gardens in Fort Worth, and last September she watched the city council rezone the land around her nursery for a Black Mountain data center after telling her they would find a wa… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
thereminder.comLocal Action East Longmeadow voted 43.5 million dollars for its own fiber network while Charter's lobbyist begged for delay thereminder.comCharter Communications sent its director of government affairs, Nancy Clark, to the East Longmeadow Town Council on August 11 to urge them to slow down on the fiber money and refer it back to committe… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Local Action Myrtle Beach bought an acre and handed the deed to a land trust, so 16 condos stay affordable foreverMyrtle Beach spent 480,000 dollars out of its Workforce Housing Fund on the land at 904 Third Ave. N. and then did the part most towns skip: it handed the deed to the Horry County Community Land Trust… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Local Action No chain would put a grocery store in North Omaha, so a nonprofit raised 7 million dollars and the council cleared it omahadailyrecord.comNobody in the grocery business wanted to build at 25th and Lake, so North Omaha went ahead without them. On July 30 the Omaha City Council unanimously approved the zoning and the agreements for a 25,0… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Local Action 120 volunteers just put a city-owned power utility on Ann Arbor's November ballot wcmu.orgA hundred and twenty volunteers in Ann Arbor knocked doors until they had more than 5,300 signatures, and on August 7 city clerk Jacqueline Beaudry certified their charter amendment for the November 3… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
upriseri.comLocal Action Narragansett, RI voted 5-0 to rip its license plate cameras out a year early upriseri.comThree cameras in Narragansett logged the plate and a still photo of every car that rolled past Boston Road, Point Judith Road, and Woodruff Avenue. On August 4 the town council voted 5-0 to cancel the… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
montanafreepress.orgLocal Action In Missoula, two mobile home parks unionized and turned a 150-dollar rent hike into 19 dollars montanafreepress.orgOak Wood Ventures, the Texas company that bought Travois Village and Harvey's Park in 2023, raised lot rents 200 dollars a month and then came back the next year asking for 150 dollars more, which wou… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Local Action Where you gonna be May 1st?I think I'll go to DC for this one. Upvotes: 1Downvote Comments: 1SnapShare
Local Action YOU know who should run for office?Ok now listen up, This is how we stop it. All of you! Run for public office As an independent And make a single promise That you'll resign the first time you take corporate profits Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0SnapShare
