Foreign residents want better support and equity from new Seoul mayor
Posted : 2021-04-07 15:32
Updated : 2021-04-07 18:32
Foreign residents participate in a mock poll at a multicultural family support center in Busan, April 16, 2018, ahead of the nationwide local elections, which were held on June 13, 2018. Korea Times file
By Lee Hyo-jin
Foreign residents in Seoul, including eligible immigrant voters of the mayoral by-election, shared various expectations from the new mayor on making the capital a more foreigner-friendly city.
As foreign nationals who have been in the country for over three years after obtaining permanent residency are given the right to vote in local elections, 38,126 foreign residents in Seoul were eligible to cast their votes in the election, according to the National Election Committee (NEC).
Patrick Chirico almost immediately sent his pregnant wife and two small children from their Brooklyn apartment to live with her mother in Watertown when the pandemic hit in February 2020.
Knowing that his family was safe, he stayed behind to do his part during those early days of COVID-19 to help make sure the medical community got some needed personal protection equipment when he worked on a project to manufacture 500,000 facial masks.
Once that work was complete, he returned to his hometown, where he joined his wife Brittany and 6âyearâold son and 3âyearâold daughter in July. Two months earlier, they purchased their first home, a threeâbedroom Cape Codâstyle house in Watertown.
Pamela A. Smith
Pamela A. Smith, a 23-year veteran of the United States Park Police, will lead the nation’s oldest federal law enforcement agency.
Smith, who became the first African American woman to lead the 230-year-old agency, immediately remarked that she would establish a body-worn camera program for USPP within 90 days.
The program will initially begin in San Francisco and be implemented across the country by the end of the year, Smith said.
“Body-worn cameras are good for the public and good for our officers, which is why I am prioritizing implementing a body-worn camera program within my first 90 days,” Smith offered in a statement.
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Nighttime Demolition Operations On I-24 Bridge Over Germantown Road
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As part of the bridge replacement project currently underway on I-24 over Germantown Road in Chattanooga, TDOT contract crews must demolish and remove the median barrier wall and parapet walls on the I-24 bridge over Germantown Road near mile marker 183.
This operation will begin on Sunday, March 7, 2021 and crews will work between 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. Eastern Time on Sunday through Thursday nights only (no weekends) until the work is completed. Temporary interstate lane closures will be necessary during this work, and the closure locations will vary as work progresses. This portion of the project is slated to be complete by Friday, April 2, 2021.