Paris names new king of the crusty baguette in its annual bread-baking prize

pbs.org Paris has a new king of the crusty baguette. Baker Xavier Netry was chosen this week as the 31st winner of Paris’ annual “Grand Prix de la baguette” prize. Competing…

Austin’s Texas glow Is fading

siliconvalley.com Oracle Corp. is moving its headquarters out of the city. Tesla Inc. is pulling back after a rapid expansion. Almost a quarter of commercial office space is vacant, and…

A skeptical Springfield awaits after Chicago Bears pitch stadium plan backed by mayor

chicagotribune.com The Chicago Bears stood with Mayor Brandon Johnson at Soldier Field on Wednesday to launch their public push for a domed stadium on a reimagined lakefront that could cost…

Spectator at the center

cjr.org Last week, the congressional spotlight fell on Minouche Shafik, the president of Columbia University, who followed the acts of Claudine Gay (formerly Harvard’s president)…

Brooke Shields Announces Run For President Of Actors’ Equity Association

deadline.com Brooke Shields is running for president of the Actors’ Equity Association after Kate Shindle announced she would step down after a nine-year tenure. “I felt it was my…

The budget roadshow continues

politico.com With help from Shawn Ness New from New York Happening now: Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams continued their post-budget happy tour. Police are unhappy…

Hochul rips Trump on abortion rights

politico.com With help from Shawn Ness New from New York Happening now: Gov. Kathy Hochul knocks Trump on abortion rights. Lawmakers leave, again, without a budget deal. Randall’s Island…

The Boston Globe revisits an infamous murder

niemanlab.org On a fall evening in 1989, Charles Stuart told police that a Black man had shot him and his pregnant wife during an attempted carjacking in the city’s Mission Hill…

How Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow plans to fix a city in decline

theglobeandmail.com It’s been a whirlwind start to Olivia Chow’s first year as mayor—a tax hike, megadollar deals with the provincial and federal governments. And yet the surface of Toronto’s…

Pro-Palestinian Protests Sweep US College Campuses After Columbia

youtube.com Columbia University moved its classes online after days of anti-Israel protests roiled its New York City campus and prompted condemnation from the White House and City Hall.…

Biden Condemns Antisemitic Protests on College Campuses

youtube.com President Joe Biden on Monday denounced the 'antisemitic protests' occurring on college campuses but said he also condemns those who "don't understand' the Palestinian…

Los Angeles firefighters fought investments in safer streets. For decades, fire regulations have made roads deadlier

businessinsider.com To highlight the release of a report titled `Traffic Violence in Los Angeles / Why Los Angeles Gets an `F' Grade for 2023'' Streets Are For Everyone organized a rally on the…

Seattle proposal to add affordable housing, support nonprofits struggles

seattletimes.com A plan to allow developers to build denser housing when they partner with community groups and set aside affordable units faces a tough path at City Hall.

Watch: Migrants Complain That New Yorkers Don't Learn African Languages

zerohedge.com Watch: Migrants Complain That New Yorkers Don't Learn African Languages Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A hearing held earlier this week in New York by the…

Residents swarm council meeting after plan for LGBTQ+ festival draws scowls

newsweek.com Angry residents swarmed a city council meeting in Broadview Heights, Ohio, as anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment ignited over plans for a Pride festival. Around 100 people on Monday…

Los Angeles Mayor Urges 'More Fortunate' Residents To Help Fund Housing For Homeless

zerohedge.com Los Angeles Mayor Urges 'More Fortunate' Residents To Help Fund Housing For Homeless Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Los Angeles Mayor…

A new twist: Hackers hold up the budget

politico.com With help from Shawn Ness New from New York Happening now: A cyberattack roiled the state Capitol amid budget negotiations. Republicans responded to the latest budget deals…

Democrat life raft?

reason.com Johnson's alliance: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R–La.) is attempting to spend lots of your freshly forked over taxpayer dollars on several aid bills which will go toward…

How did the cost of food delivery get so high?

vox.com Food delivery apps have recently added new fees in response to minimum pay rules in New York City and Seattle. | Getty Images/iStockphoto As delivery discourse rages, don’t…

Court Reverses Harassment Conviction for Vulgar Calls to City About Water Shutoff

reason.com From yesterday's Ohio Court of Appeals decision in State v. Golga (my students Dice Hagiwara, Jonathan Kaiman, and Brandon Peevy and I had filed an amicus brief in the case,…

Brink Of Unrest? Migrants "Flood" NYC City Hall In Protest Of Losing Luxury Hotel Rooms

zerohedge.com Brink Of Unrest? Migrants "Flood" NYC City Hall In Protest Of Losing Luxury Hotel Rooms New York City could be on the cusp of social unrest as hundreds of migrants have…

Small Oregon town becomes the face of homelessness by trying to turn camping into a fine or jail time

fortune.com A pickleball game in this leafy Oregon community was suddenly interrupted one rainy weekend morning by the arrival of an ambulance. Paramedics rushed through the park toward…

New York school buses not picking up migrant children angers council member

newsweek.com New York City Mayor Eric Adams is being criticized by some city council members over his 60-day migrant eviction policy, as new data shows the policy has had negative…

San Jose loses a popular brewery. Is downtown’s momentum in danger of stalling?

siliconvalley.com Less than a week after its sixth anniversary celebration, Camino Brewing Company told its social media followers Thursday that it had decided to close the doors of its South…

Can homeless people be fined for sleeping outside? A rural Oregon city asks the US Supreme Court

abcnews.go.com The rural city of Grants Pass in southern Oregon has become the unlikely face of the nation’s homelessness crisis as its case over anti-camping laws goes to the U.S. Supreme…

WATCH: Pro-Palestinian Protester Threatens City Council During Violent ‘Ceasefire’ Rant: ‘We’ll Murder You!’

mediaite.com A pro-Palestinian protester demanding a ceasefire resolution found herself in some hot water after threatening the lives of city council members in Bakersfield, CA. Riddhi…