A bill that would stop people from holding more than one local elected office at once is moving through the Tennessee General Assembly after it passed a subcommittee vote this week.
A bill that would cut the number of elected representatives on the Nashville Metro Council in half sailed through a legislative subcommittee on a party-line vote one of two bills proposed by GOP lawmakers this year to modify the Democratic-leaning capitol city s local government, which recently bucked efforts to host the Republican National Convention.
A scheduled hearing on an Illinois House resolution urging the Chicago Bears to move to Arlington Heights was canceled Tuesday, when the legislation was reassigned to a different committee.
As the Chicago Bears get more serious about building a new stadium at Arlington Park, the potential city-to-suburban move has found an unexpected ally in the Illinois legislature from someone who lives in neither the city or the suburbs.
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