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Posts by VocalLocal

A packed Fort Worth chamber got a unanimous first vote toward a 90-day data center freeze

<p>Sue Weston owns Weston Gardens in Fort Worth, and last September she watched the city council rezone the land around her nursery for a Black Mounta…

East Longmeadow voted 43.5 million dollars for its own fiber network while Charter's lobbyist begged for delay

<p>Charter Communications sent its director of government affairs, Nancy Clark, to the East Longmeadow Town Council on August 11 to urge them to slow …

Myrtle Beach bought an acre and handed the deed to a land trust, so 16 condos stay affordable forever

<p>Myrtle 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 han…

No chain would put a grocery store in North Omaha, so a nonprofit raised 7 million dollars and the council cleared it

<p>Nobody 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 unanimou…

120 volunteers just put a city-owned power utility on Ann Arbor's November ballot

<p>A 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…

Narragansett, RI voted 5-0 to rip its license plate cameras out a year early

<p>Three cameras in Narragansett logged the plate and a still photo of every car that rolled past Boston Road, Point Judith Road, and Woodruff Avenue.…

In Missoula, two mobile home parks unionized and turned a 150-dollar rent hike into 19 dollars

<p>Oak 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…