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September 29, 2021

UK Proposes Law To Switch Off EV Home Chargers During Peak Hours - InsideEVs

The United Kingdom plans to pass legislation that will see EV home and workplace chargers being switched off at peak times to avoid blackouts. Announced by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, the proposed law stipulates that electric car chargers installed at home or at the workplace may not function for up to nine hours a day to avoid overloading the national electricity grid. As of May 30, 20...
September 29, 2021

Law roundup: Flailing man 'just being his normal self' - Daily Inter Lake

Someone wanted Kalispell Police Department to check on a man’s welfare after they saw him throwing his arms around, waving his shirt, and yelling. Officers checked on the man who was “just being his normal self.” Officers received a report that a bearded older man in a vehicle allegedly pulled a gun out and pointed it at someone, saying, “We kill people in Montana,” noting he had more firearm...
September 29, 2021

Law enforcement needs help finding a missing Cedarville man - WIFR

Raymond Balles was last seen leaving a bar in Winslow around 5:30 p.m. Sunday. CEDARVILLE, Ill. (WIFR) - Last seen leaving a bar in Winslow on September 26 around 5:30 p.m., the Stephenson County Sheriff’s Office is asking for public help in finding Raymond Biles. He was leaving the bar on a motorcycle and has not been heard or seen since. If you know of Raymond’s whereabouts or have any inf...
September 29, 2021

Federal judge temporarily blocks key part of Arizona abortion law - Axios

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey speaks addressing a 2020 Trump rally in Prescott, Arizona. Photo: Caitlin O'Hara/Getty Images A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked a key aspect of a new Arizona abortion law hours before it was due to take effect. Why it matters: The legislation would have allowed felony charges to be laid against doctors who knowingly terminated pregnancies solely due to gen...
September 29, 2021

Visiting law professor discusses new book focused on the racialization of immigrant Muslims in American society – The Daily Free Press - Daily Free Press

Community, Features, Impact Visiting law professor Sahar Aziz from Rutgers University said she had just begun her second week of law school in 2011 when the school hallways turned unusually quiet and students gathered around televisions to learn the news of two airplanes crashing into the World Trade Center. Rutgers University Law Professor Sahar Aziz’s first book, “The Racial Muslim: Wh...
September 29, 2021

The law without heart or grace | Columns | somerset-kentucky.com - Commonwealth Journal's History

Rev. Norman Franklin The Bible speaks to or references the heart some 771 times in the NKJV. The conditions of the heart and matters of the heart must be pretty important to God. When Jesus bumped heads numerous times with the Pharisees about their strict but hypocritical adherence to the law, it was not to deny the need for the law or to condemn its practice. It was to show them...
September 29, 2021

The Texas Social Media Law Is Blatantly Unconstitutional - Reason

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who this month signed a bill that aims to restrict social media platforms' editorial discretion, says the new law "protects Texans from wrongful censorship" and thereby upholds their "first amendment rights." The law, H.B. 20, is scheduled to take effect on December 2, but that probably will not happen, because it is blatantly unconstitutional and inconsistent with fed...
September 29, 2021

Tillis Co-Sponsors Bipartisan Bill to Help Law Enforcement Investigate Fentanyl,... - Thom Tillis

U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and a bipartisan, bicameral group of senators and U.S. House members recently reintroduced legislation to provide state and local law enforcement with high-tech devices to detect and identify dangerous drugs like fentanyl. The Providing Officers with Electronic Resources (POWER) Act would establish a new grant program through the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ...
September 28, 2021

New law counts ‘workforce’ apartments as meeting middle-income housing quotas - San Bernardino County Sun

Newport Beach-based Waterford Property Co., in partnership with the California Statewide Communities Development Authority, has acquired a 507-unit apartment complex called Altana at 633 N. Central Ave. in Glendale for $300 million. This deal is part of CSCDAâs middle-income housing program, which uses tax-exempt bond financing to convert existing apartments into workforce housing. (Courtesy ...
September 28, 2021

New law counts ‘workforce’ apartments as meeting middle-income housing quotas - OCRegister

Newport Beach-based Waterford Property Co., in partnership with the California Statewide Communities Development Authority, has acquired a 507-unit apartment complex called Altana at 633 N. Central Ave. in Glendale for $300 million. This deal is part of CSCDAâs middle-income housing program, which uses tax-exempt bond financing to convert existing apartments into workforce housing. (Courtesy ...