Community Rights US Founding Director Paul Cienfuegos participated in the 3rd Regional Gathering in the Driftless Area of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota, held on March 4th, 2018. 50 people attended from more than a dozen counties. An archive of audio, video, and text of this extraordinary full-day event's sessions and other group discussions will soon [...]
This article by Terry Smith appeared in The Athens News, February 28th, 2018. The 4th District Court of Appeals today (Thursday) is scheduled to hear an appeal of the Athens County Board of Elections’ decision last July to reject an anti-fracking county charter proposal for the November 2017 ballot. The appellant, described as “a committee [...]
This article by Daniel C. Vock appeared in Governing, February 26th, 2018. Housing prices in California continue to soar, in part because many cities have discouraged dense development. That’s led to a big fight in Sacramento over whether the state should force cities to allow apartment and condo buildings near transit stations. Frustrated with cities [...]
This article by Lawrence Davidson appeared on CNN's website, February 21, 2018. If local Florida officials want to pass firearm restrictions in response to the latest mass killing with an assault weapon, they risk being suspended from office, fined and sued personally for damages. MORE...
This Reader's Opinion by Mayors Mike Ryan and Skip Campbell appeared the Sun Sentinel, February 18th, 2018. Twenty children and six teachers were massacred in an elementary school. Prayers rose to the heavens. Tears flooded our souls. Words inspired hope of change and action. It was not the first or a new type of massacre. [...]
Proposal aimed at keeping up with population growth would limit cities’ power over housing, handing more control to state This article by Erin McCormick appeared in The Guardian, February 14th, 2018. The mayor of Berkeley, California, has called it “a declaration of war”. A neighborhood group in Los Angeles said it would be akin to [...]
This article recently appeared in the Columbus Free Press. Gubernatorial candidate Dennis Kucinich addressed the first town hall forum of the Progressive Democrats of America Central Ohio chapter on February 5. Kucinich emphasized that he is for universal health care and when in Congress had written HR 676 a Health Care for All bill, co-sponsored by [...]
The lobbying group that led the assault on Obamacare has targeted movements across the US to ensure workers can get needed time off This article by Renee Feltz appeared in The Guardian, February 11th, 2018. This week marks 25 years since Bill Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act, which gives US workers the [...]
This article by Lisa Speckhard Pasque appeared in The Cap Times, February 11th, 2018. Under a bill in the legislature, municipalities like the city of Madison couldn’t write or enforce their own laws about employment discrimination. That would stop a national trend of “burdening employees and employers alike with excessive regulation," author of the proposal [...]
This article by Maya Smith appeared in the Memphis Flyer, February 9, 2018. The places where smoking is permitted in the city could soon change if a new state bill passes that puts smoking policies in the control of local governments. The Local Option Bill, sponsored by Sen. Bill Ketron, R-Murfreesboro, would repeal the tobacco [...]
