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Denmark is facing fresh claims of racism after MPs changed the country’s controversial anti-ghetto law to allow Ukrainian refugees to move into social housing emptied of “non-westerners”. For three years, the government has sought to restrict immigrants from moving into what are described as disadvantaged neighbourhoods in an attempt to avoid so-called “parallel societies”. Access to social h...

(Photo: John Partipilo) Across Tennessee police-oversight boards were created to play a role in mediating between a critical public and an often self-regulating police force. Each of the four largest cities in Tennessee have a police-oversight board, each with their own ordinances, bylaws and inception dates. Both Chattanooga and Nashville’s police-oversight boards were created in the last fi...

Harvey Hernandez, 58, moves his tent and belongings back to the sidewalk in downtown Los Angeles after it was power-washed by the city. Section 41.18 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code makes it illegal to “sit, lie or sleep in or upon any street, sidewalk or other public way.” The posted deadline for every tent and shanty to be gone arrived on a Monday. Yet by noon, life continued at its de...

Rep. Karen Bass speaks to supporters Oct. 16 at Los Angeles Trade Tech College at the kickoff to her campaign for mayor. Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Monday, May 2. I’m Justin Ray. Crime is a major topic in Los Angeles. Everyone agrees that we should reduce it, but who will get it done? With the June 7 primary coming up, I decided to take a look at...

The ashes of Brianna Mullins, woh died last year at the age of 25 of a fentanyl overdose, are placed in a box around photos and things she liked at her mother’s home in Northglenn, pictured on April 28, 2022. The family made the memorial to remember her. Brianna Mullins is seen in the large top photo. Aretta Gallegos’s son-in-law woke her up in the middle of the night last April 14, panicking...

As chief counsel for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Greg Dotson helped shepherd a major infrastructure bill through Congress. The bill includes funding for electric vehicles and public transit. (Image: THINK b/Adobe Stock) The National Guard was sleeping in the basement and wire barriers surrounded the Capitol Building when UO law professor Greg Dotson started working as t...

ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Connecticut lawmakers pass electric vehicle adoption and incentivization measures that aim to add thousands of electric buses, cars and trucks to the state’s roads in roughly a decade. (New Haven Register) ALSO: Dozens of new electric buses will be added to New York City’s public fleets, but some worry the city won’t have enough infrastructure or cash to completely transiti...

Up to 120,000 new homes halted in areas including Eden Valley and Norfolk Broads due to ‘nutrient neutrality’ rules A legal requirement that new houses do not pollute nearby wetlands, rivers and nature reserves has halted development across a swath of England. Forty-two local authorities in England were last month told they must ensure that new homes are “nutrient neutral” and do not add dama...

News by Manuela Tobias / CalMatters California leaders say enforcement of Senate Bill 9 and the creation of more duplexes largely falls to private enforcement. Photo by Andrea Gemmet. Lea este artículo en español. The passage of 2021's Senate Bill 9 was supposed to herald the end of the single-family zoning that many point to as a culprit of California's housing crisis. But four months into ...

Gov. Jared Polis signs House Bill 22-1049 into law during a signing ceremony April 21, 2022, at his Denver office. The bill was sponsored by Reps. Jennifer Bacon, left, and Naquetta Ricks, right. (Faith Miller/Colorado Newsline) At 19, Karly Schwab was hit with a debt that would take her seven years to pay back to the University of Colorado Boulder. It stemmed from her parents filing for bank...