New York police will no longer be able to search vehicles based solely on the smell of marijuana, the Montana House passes a trio of competing legalization implementation bills, a cartel massacre in Mexico leaves more than two dozen dead, and more.
LSD and other psychedelics would be decriminalized under a bill advancing in California. (Creative Commons)
Marijuana Policy
Connecticut Governor s Marijuana Legalization Bill Advances. A marijuana legalization bill supported by Governor Ned Lamont (D), House Bill 5853, passed the General Assembly Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. But lawmakers cautioned that changes are coming to the bill as it winds through the committee process. The bill awaits further action in the Senate.
New York police will no longer be able to search vehicles based solely on the smell of marijuana, the Montana House passes a trio of competing legalization implementation bills, a cartel massacre in Mexico leaves more than two dozed dead, and more.
LSD and other psychedelics would be decriminalized under a bill advancing in California. (Creative Commons)
Marijuana Policy
Connecticut Governor s Marijuana Legalization Bill Advances. A marijuana legalization bill supported by Governor Ned Lamont (D), House Bill 5853, passed the General Assembly Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. But lawmakers cautioned that changes are coming to the bill as it winds through the committee process. The bill awaits further action in the Senate.
City Council calls on Entergy to testify about data security after WWL-TV phone scam investigation .once we watched (WWL-TV’s) stories about the specificity of people s bills, that was when it became alarming and concerning.” Author: David Hammer / Eyewitness Investigator Published: 11:01 PM CST March 8, 2021 Updated: 7:43 AM CST March 9, 2021
NEW ORLEANS Utility regulators on the New Orleans City Council want to know if Entergy New Orleans can ensure the security of customers’ data in response to a series of WWL-TV reports last week.
City Council President Helena Moreno, who is also the chairwoman of the council’s Utility Committee, is calling on Entergy to report about the security of billing data at a public hearing next week. She said she watched the WWL-TV investigation and was disturbed to learn that scammers pretending to be Entergy bill collectors appeared to know specific information about customers’ Ente
A broken pay phone on a New Orleans street in April 2013.
Central City resident Michael Burnside has been walking New Orleans neighborhoods counting abandoned pay phone kiosks. He developed a list of 77 addresses that he turned over to City Hall. And this week the city began removing those kiosks, in batches of 10, starting in Central City.
Anyone harboring nostalgia for 20th century communications devices can purchase the retired apparatus at public auctions. The first 10 removed from the Central City neighborhood will be available during the April public auction.
“Clearly the city had permitted the pay phones at one time, but research showed these are now abandoned by the owner, therefore allowing for the removal,” City Council President Helena Moreno said in a press release. “Picking up these disconnected pay phones is just one small way to show respect for our neighborhoods and make progress toward more inviting public spaces.”
Jared Brossett qualifies to run for City Council on July 18, 2018.
District D Councilman Jared Brossett almost has as much cash on hand in his campaign account than all the other council members combined. Brossett, who is term limited and expected to run for an at-large City Council position later this year, reported $103,471.61 in available dollars on his 2020 annual campaign finance report, which was filed last week.
The other five City Council members (excluding newly appointed at-large member Donna Glapion) show a total of approximately $116,000 in available dollars.
Brossett started 2020 with $102,178 in the bank and took in $1,750 during the year. Though his only donation in 2020 was to St. Augustine Church, Brossett’s 2019 expenditures included Biden for President, Kamala Harris for the People, JBE for Louisiana Leadership PAC and the McDonogh 35 Alumni Association.