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headlines found matching 'Local government'
Wed March 15, 2023
(Guardian)
 
  
 
 Teenagers upset about having to start school at 5:30am? Back in my day we walked two miles to school uphill both ways in the snow without shoes for a 4am start time and we liked it
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Tue February 28, 2023
(PC Gamer)
 
  
 
 Beyond Bad and Even Worse
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(AP News)
 
  
 
 Ukrainian drone crashes just 60 miles from Moscow. Sleep tight Pootie Poot
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Fri February 17, 2023
(Slate)
 
  
 
 How one innocuous, 15-minute PowerPoint presentation extolling the virtues of walkable, bikeable neighborhoods led to a collective right-wing global freakout about tyrannical bureaucrats locking down cars and the freedom to travel
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Thu February 16, 2023
(Esquire)
 
  
 
 A list of everything Ron DeSantis has banned so far to make us Free. Sparkly white galoshes, sourpuss expressions still legal
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Wed February 15, 2023
(CNN)
 
  
 
 It's almost like, for some crazy and unfathomable reason, local populations don't trust railroad company and local government officials who tell them to just ignore all the poison clouds floating overhead, it's totally safe to go home
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Sun February 12, 2023
(NPR)
 
  
 
 Russia's continued draining of the Kakhovka Reservoir has lowered the level to 14.1 meters. The minimum level required for the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant's cooling system is 13.2 meters. Sweet dreams
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Thu February 09, 2023
(CBC)
 
  
 
 Quiet B.C. seaside town in political chaos following mayoral election won in slim 18-vote margin by hockey great Ken Berry. Resigning building inspector: "The Titanic has set sail. Do not bother rearranging the deck chairs"
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(The Lever)
 
  
 
 Norfolk Southern train derails, causes evacuation of Ohio town. Guess which company was busy lobbying for exemptions to federal safety regulations before the crash. Go on, guess
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Thu February 02, 2023
(The Hill)
 
  
 
 Let's look at how Ron DeSantis helped spread a virus through sheer force of idiocy
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Sun January 29, 2023
(CBC)
 
  
 
 "The Unstoppable Mayor" has stopped. "Hurricane" Hazel McCallion dead at 101
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(CBC)
 
  
 
 "The Unstoppable Mayor" has stopped. "Hurricane" Hazel McCallion dead at 101
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Fri January 27, 2023
(Some North Dakodan, eh)
 
  
 
 North Dakota threatens to sue Minnesota if the Gopher State adopts green energy plan which would devastate North Dakota's fossil fuel reven-- er, "hinder its utilities"
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(WESH Orlando)
 
  
 
 "FWC said it "responded to witness reports and video evidence of an individual striking a shark with a hammer" and that the agency takes "potential resource violations seriously and is currently investigating this incident"
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Sun January 22, 2023
(Guardian)
 
  
 
 Scores of child asylum seekers kidnapped from hotel run by British government. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang child catcher seen fleeing
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Fri January 20, 2023
(Politico)
 
  
 
 D.C. Mayor to Biden: Get Your Bureaucrats Back to their Cubicles
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(Politico)
 
  
 
 D.C. Mayor to Biden: Get Your Bureaucrats Back to their Cubicles
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Thu January 19, 2023
(CNN)
 
  
 
 Rugged freedom lovers in Appalachia complain others are using their freedom
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Tue January 10, 2023
(Local10 WPLG)
 
  
 
 Private school suddenly closes over "family dispute" leaving working parents frustrated, angry, without adequate childcare. If only local governments provided educational services for kids at little to no cost
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Fri December 30, 2022
(Oddity Central)
 
  
 
 Today in 'why we can't have nice things' news: French homeless man who built his own awesome fairytale castle now forced to tear it down because it poses a danger
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Thu December 22, 2022
(Yahoo)
 
  
 
 Governor Abbot says Texas is ready for repeat of last year's cold. Presumably this means his trip to Cancun is booked and Minnesota will be bailing them out with socialized gas again
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Mon December 19, 2022
(Medical Xpress)
 
  
 
 Tell me you're a 豚鼠 without saying you're a 豚鼠
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Wed December 14, 2022
(SFGate)
 
  
 
 "How falling pot prices killed a 3rd generation family pot farm." 3rd generation? When did California legalize weed again?
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(SFGate)
 
  
 
 "How falling pot prices killed a 3rd generation family pot farm." 3rd generation? When did California legalize weed again?
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(KSL Salt Lake City)
 
  
 
 Let's build this huge water park in the southern Utah desert, right next to Zion National Park
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Tue December 13, 2022
(Grist)
 
  
 
 A small Wisconsin town tried to regulate factory farms. Guess what happened next?
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Sat December 03, 2022
(CBS News)
 
  
 
 Mass Lottery officials worried this economy's diverted rubes from losing money on scratchers & Keno; "I've been calling All or Nothing 'Nothing But Nothing.' It has not truly added anything to the bottom line"
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Sat November 26, 2022
(Guardian)
 
  
 
 State Senator-elect Nabilah Islam (D-GA): "People thought it was unthinkable that in the south, someone would vote for a woman with the last name Islam. I'm like: they did. Fifty-three per cent of this district did"
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Tue November 22, 2022
(Some Guy)
 
  
 
 The first labor strike took place over 3,000 years ago in Egypt. Workers were striking for better pay, better conditions and not being forced to walk sideways all the time
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(CNN)
 
  
 
 Ski lift dismantled. Due to lack of snow. For 15 years
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