Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan, a longtime supporter of strengthening funding for local small businesses and important public projects, successfully moved to approve the resolution along with the viability study. Kaplan had proposed the initial public bank study in the previous Oakland budget, and the regional multi-city collaboration that allowed the public bank effort to get to this stage. | From City Hall Reports The City of Oakland took another step toward establishing the Public Bank of the East Bay. The Oakland Finance and Management Committee voted to approve forwarding District 3 Councilmember Carroll Fife’s resolution to the City Council meeting on Dec. 20, 2022, with the intent for the City of Oakland, in collaboration
Homeless people living along the Red River have attracted public attention for the past two years, said Carissa Raaen, a program coordinator for homeless outreach with Fargo Cass Public Health. Part of her job is to find homes for those who have none.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he spoke to Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Deanne Criswell to urge her to spare no effort to meet the needs of millions of Puerto Ricans suffering without power and others without drinkable water.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. From City Hall to the city streets to Capitol Hill, outrage continues over the police killing here of an unarmed Black man, the execution-style shooting of Patrick Lyoya, 26, after a traffic stop in Grand Rapids, Mich. Many protesters call it murder.