Senate Bill Calls for Investigation Into Indian Boarding Schools
The bill would create a Truth and Healing Commission that would document ongoing impacts to Native communities. Kalle Benallie June 10, 2023 Read the full article here Truthout
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Forum features candidates from only one Buffalo Council district because of no-shows
The League of Women Voters of Erie County held a forum for candidates running for five contested Buffalo Common Council seats Tuesday night, but multiple candidates showed up in only one of the races....
Home foreclosures are rising nationwide, with Florida, California and Texas in the lead
Adjusted for inflation, incomes for U.S. workers remain below their pre-pandemic highs as elevated costs for goods and services linger. Rob Wile June 9, 2023 Read the full article here NBC News
Lessons Learned from the Buffalo Blizzard: Recommendations for Strengthening Preparedness and Recovery Efforts
Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown sought expertise on how to better prepare for future blizzards of this magnitude. He commissioned the NYU Wagner School to conduct an analysis of the storm’s impacts and to identify...
The housing market is so broken that many 40- and 30-something millennials have no choice but to build homes in their parents’ backyards
To many people, the image of a nuclear family in a stand-alone house with a green lawn and white picket fence still represents a fulfillment of the American dream. However, this ideal is relatively...
The Case Against Homeownership
Instead of perpetuating the Ponzi scheme of private property for some, we should be demanding economic security for all. Jane Chung, June 5, 2023 Read the full article here The Nation
Thousands are living in RVs on Los Angeles’ streets. Leaders want to shrink the number, but the solution is elusive
Early one recent Friday morning, sanitation workers, homeless-outreach workers and LAPD officers arrived on a little street in the west of Los Angeles. Jasmine Avenue is lined with low-rise apartment blocks, an imposing Catholic...
Blizzard report criticizes City of Buffalo for communication failures
Better public communication is Buffalo’s most urgent issue when it comes to being more prepared for future extreme weather, but the city also has work to do on upgrading its infrastructure and utilities and...
Store owner charged with killing a teen shot at people he suspected of shoplifting before
A store owner in South Carolina charged with murder this week after shooting a teen he wrongly thought stole water has shot at suspected shoplifters two other times in the past eight years and not faced...
How Racism and a Viral Mob Destroyed a California Restaurant
“It quickly got to the point where there was almost no return,” Brooke Leigh Howard June 1, 2023 Read the full article here Daily Beast