Environmental justice and conservation advocates’ push to advance a bill aimed at strengthening California’s Environmental Quality Act stalled, as the measure was pulled from Monday’s hearing agenda.
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Chaewon Chung
Updated January 12,
Sacbee.com,
13 Jan. 2026
Per the Haslet city code, council members are entitled to a minimum of one item listed on each council meeting agenda, which the mayor is in charge of putting together.
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Rachel Royster,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 Jan. 2026
But an information-technology contract gone horribly awry on her watch resulted in late bills last year that required school districts throughout the county to borrow and pay substantial interest just to make payroll and cover basic expenses.
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The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Jan. 2026
This of course is just the tip of the payroll-patriot iceberg not just at ZooMass, but in higher education generally.
And this year, the housing and mental health nonprofit produced a compilation film, Changing Minds Young Filmmaker Festival, made up of winning submissions from its long-running Changing Minds initiative.
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Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
4 Jan. 2026
Watch the compilation above to see four stepdads experience life-changing moments of love and belonging.
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