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After crossing outside a crosswalk, a pedestrian, center, runs towards a crosswalk at the busy intersection of W. 96th Street and Broadway in the Upper West Side of New York Monday, Jan. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

‘I’m walking here!’: Jaywalking legalized in New York City

By Philip Marcelo - Associated Press

This July 29, 2013, photo shows a case of freshly-stamped Marlboro cigarette cartons at M. Amundson Cigar & Candy Co. in Minneapolis. Smokers in Minneapolis will pay some of the highest cigarette prices in the country after the City Council voted unanimously Thursday, april 25, 2024 to impose a minimum retail price of $15 per pack to promote public health. (Mark Zdechlik/Minnesota Public Radio via AP, file)

Minneapolis smokers to pay some of the highest cigarette prices in U.S. with a $15 per-pack minimum

By Steve Karnowski - Associated Press

Melissa Nelson, chair of the board of directors of the Sogorea Te' Land Trust, middle, gestures while speaking at a news conference in Berkeley, Calif., Wednesday, March 13, 2024. Berkeley's City Council voted unanimously Tuesday, March 12, 2024, to adopt an ordinance giving the title of the land to the Sogorea Te' Land Trust, a women-led, San Francisco Bay Area collective that works to return land to Indigenous people and that raised the funds needed to reach the agreement. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Indigenous people rejoice after city of Berkeley votes to return sacred Native land to Ohlone

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Melissa Nelson, chair of the board of directors of the Sogorea Te' Land Trust, middle, gestures while speaking at a news conference in Berkeley, Calif., Wednesday, March 13, 2024. Berkeley's City Council voted unanimously Tuesday, March 12, 2024, to adopt an ordinance giving the title of the land to the Sogorea Te' Land Trust, a women-led, San Francisco Bay Area collective that works to return land to Indigenous people and that raised the funds needed to reach the agreement. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Indigenous people rejoice after city of Berkeley votes to return sacred Native land to Ohlone

By Olga R. Rodriguez and Janie Har - Associated Press

A police detective works the scene where two high school students were shot and killed just blocks from Millennium Park, in Chicago, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

Violence-plagued Chicago mocked for city council demanding Gaza cease-fire

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks during a news conference at City Hall, Dec. 12, 2023, in New York. Adams announced Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, that he rejected the bill, known as the "How Many Stops Act," which requires officers to publicly report on all investigative stops, including relatively low-level encounters with civilians. (AP Photo/Peter K. Afriyie, File)

NYC mayor vetoes bills banning solitary confinement in jails and expanding reporting of police stops

By Philip Marcelo - Associated Press

Front pages for the Marion County Record's latest weekly edition are displayed on a window at its offices, Monday, Aug. 21, 2023, in Marion, Kansas. Local police raided the newspaper's offices and home of its publisher, bringing the small central Kansas town to international attention. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

A judge told Kansas authorities to destroy electronic copies of newspaper’s files taken during raid

By Josh Funk - Associated Press

A stack of the latest weekly edition of the Marion County Record sits in the back of the newspaper's building, awaiting unbundling, sorting and distribution, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023, in Marion, Kan. The newspaper's front page was dedicated to two stories about a raid by local police on its offices and the publisher's home on Aug. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

The initial online search spurring a raid on a Kansas paper was legal, a state agency says

By John Hanna - Associated Press

Los Angeles City council member Curren Price Jr., speaks at the Paradise Baptist Church in Los Angeles on Aug. 19, 2014, during a community forum. Prosecutors charged Price, with embezzlement and perjury on Tuesday, June 13, 2023. The criminal case is the latest one to upend the scandal-plagued governing board of the nation's second-largest largest city. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)

Group recommends reforms for scandal-plagued Los Angeles city council

By Amancai Biraben - Associated Press

Community organizer Kamau Franklin speaks during a news conference outside Atlanta's City Hall, Wednesday, June 7, 2023, to announce an effort to force a referendum that would allow Atlanta voters to decide whether the construction of a proposed police and firefighter training center should proceed. Under the proposed referendum, voters would choose whether they want to repeal the ordinance that authorized the lease of the city-owned land upon which the project, which opponents call Cop City, is being built. (AP Photo/R.J. Rico)

Atlanta organizers unveil plan to stop ‘Cop City’ at the ballot box

By R.J. Rico - Associated Press

Los Angeles City Council member Kevin de Leon sits in chamber before starting the Los Angeles City Council meeting on Oct. 11, 2022 in Los Angeles. Leon was involved in a fight with an activist at a holiday event Friday night, Dec. 9. The altercation involving Leon occurred at a toy giveaway and holiday tree lighting at Lincoln Park, the Los Angeles Times reported. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)

Embattled Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin de Leon fights with activist at holiday event

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

The Monument to the Women of the Southland (Monument to the Women of the Confederacy) stands in Confederate Park in Jacksonville, Fla. It is one of three Confederate monuments slated for removal by the city. (Bob Self/The Florida Times-Union via AP)

Fate of Confederate monuments still undecided

By David Bauerlein Florida Times-Union - Associated Press

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler poses for a photo outside City Hall on Aug. 5, 2019, in Portland, Ore. Voters in Portland, Ore., have approved a ballot measure that would completely overhaul City Hall, amid growing public frustrations over homelessness and crime. The measure will scrap the city's unusual commission form of government and replace it with a more traditional city council. (AP Photo/Craig Mitchelldyer, File)

Voters approve drastic overhaul of City Hall in progressive Portland

By Claire Rush - Associated Press

This Thursday, July 19, 2012, file photo shows a Chick-fil-A fast-food restaurant in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File) ** FILE **

Santa Barbara City Council mulls whether Chick-fil-A is a ‘public nuisance’

By Peter Santo - The Washington Times

Illustration on the New York Board of Elections by Alexander Hunter/The Washington times

NYC Election Board’s war on election fairness

By Micah Morrison

New York City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez speaks during a rally on the steps of City Hall ahead of a City Council vote to allow lawful permanent residents to cast votes in elections to pick the mayor, City Council members and other municipal officeholders, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, in New York. More than 800,000 noncitizens and so-called Dreamers in New York City will have access to the ballot box, and could vote in municipal elections as early as 2023, after Mayor Eric Adams allowed legislation approved by the City Council a month earlier to automatically become law on Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Watershed moment in NYC: New law allows noncitizens to vote

By Bobby Caina Calvan - Associated Press

In this image taken from video, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks during a virtual press conference, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, in New York. Multiple cases of the omicron coronavirus variant have been detected in New York, health officials said Thursday, including a man who attended an anime convention in Manhattan in late November and tested positive for the variant when he returned home to Minnesota. (AP Photo)

NYC lawmakers pass bill giving noncitizens right to vote

By Bobby Caina Calvan - Associated Press

In this Monday, May 10, 2021, file photo, Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks during a news conference in Chicago. (Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times via AP) ** FILE **

Chicago city worker vaccine mandate survives repeal effort

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FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2020 file photo, Iowa City Mayor Bruce Teague introduces Democratic presidential candidate former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg during a campaign event at Northwest Junior High in Coralville, Iowa. The City Council in Iowa City voted late Tuesday, March 16, 2021, to suspend the Truth and Reconciliation Commission until April 15, after new members can be appointed to replace three who resigned from the nine-member commission. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Iowa City to reboot racial truth commission after infighting

By RYAN J. FOLEY - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 22, 2017, file photo, Venus Hayes, second from right, Hayes, the mother the 17-year-old Quanice Hayes, is surrounded by family members as she speaks during a press conference in Portland, Ore. City commissioners apologized Wednesday, March 10, 2021, to the family of a teenager who was shot and killed by Portland police, before approving a $2.1 million settlement of the family's federal wrongful death lawsuit. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Quanice Hayes’ grandmother and two uncles said they remain disturbed that Officer Andrew Hearst still works for the Police Bureau and faced no discipline. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)

Portland pays $2.1 million in police shooting of Black teen

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