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Major reform for school cleaning services
Coast Community News
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August 4, 2025
Central Coast schools are set to benefit from enhanced cleaning services as part of reforms to contracts that will bring hundreds of cleaners back in-house for the first time in decades. From early next year, approximately 600 privately contracted...
EPA opens public comments on plan to hike gas prices by 76c/gal, kill thousands
Electrek
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August 4, 2025
Lee Zeldin, Chief Saboteur of the Environmental "Protection" Agency. Photo by SecretName101 on wikimedia Last week, the US Environmental Protection Agency proposed a plan to delete its scientific finding recognizing that greenhouse gases are...
Government bans sale of second-hand clothing and street vending
New Zimbabwe
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August 4, 2025
By Anna Chibamu The government has announced a ban on the importation and sale of second-hand clothing, as well as on street and night vending. Speaking at a meeting with Harare City Councillors and officials at Town House on Monday, Local...
Major road construction projects: Punjab plans inclusion of service ducts
Business Recorder
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August 5, 2025
LAHORE: To ensure sustainable and efficient development, the Punjab government is considering the inclusion of service ducts in major road construction projects to minimise repeated road excavations. According to a spokesperson for the Punjab...
Businesses urged to bypass free MBIE employment mediation service due to wait-list
RNZ
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August 5, 2025
There is currently a seven-week waiting list to access the Ministry of Innovation, Business and Employment's mediation service. Photo: 123RF An employment lawyer is advising businesses to bypass the government's free employment mediation service....
Government Bans Night Vending and Second-Hand Clothing Sales in CBDs
The Zimbabwe Newslive
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August 4, 2025
HARARE – The government has directed all urban councils to immediately ban night vending and the sale of second-hand clothing in Central Business Districts (CBDs) as part of an ongoing campaign to restore order in city centres. Local Government...
Iowa NFIB director calls for limits on local government spending in op-ed
Hawkeye Reporter - Iowa
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August 4, 2025
Iowa State Director Matt Everson and John Hendrickson, policy director for Iowans for Tax Relief, have written an opinion piece in the Des Moines Register calling for property tax reform in Iowa. The op-ed discusses concerns about rising property...
Rwanda reached deal with U.S. to take in up to 250 migrants, Government says
The Hindu
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August 5, 2025
The United States and Rwanda have agreed for the African country to accept up to 250 migrants deported from the U.S., the spokesperson for the Rwandan government and an official told Reuters, as President Donald Trump's administration takes a...
Hey Canada, Your Failed Wildfire Management Is Poisoning America's Skies
Zero Hedge
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Representative John James, a Republican from Michigan, penned a blistering letter to Canadian leaders, warning their out-of-control wildfires are "poisoning the air and threatening the health of millions across Michigan and the Midwest." Now, that...
Media Insider: Regional media firm in voluntary administration; staff hopeful of rescue deal; IRD among creditors owed hundreds of thousands
The New Zealand Herald
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August 5, 2025
“It’s a s*** sandwich and there’s no butter,” one source told Media Insider of the situation. But there might, in fact, be some butter – the administrators, who were called in two weeks ago, are optimistic that some or all of the titles and jobs...
Pensacola's PBS station WSRE invites public to attend upcoming events
WEAR - Florida
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PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Pensacola's local PBS station, WSRE, is asking for the community's help to stay up and running. The station has been serving the Pensacola community for nearly 50 years. It has been impacted by recent funding cuts by the state...
Escambia County Public School's property tax hike sparks backlash from State Rep. Salzman
WEAR - Florida
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ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. -- A new property tax increase approved by the Escambia County School Board is drawing sharp criticism from both state and local leaders. Florida's Chief Financial Officer, Blaise Ingoglia, says Escambia County Public Schools...
Pam Bondi orders grand jury probe of Obama administration review of 2016 election
AOL
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Attorney General Pam Bondi has directed Justice Department prosecutors to launch a grand jury investigation of whether Obama administration officials committed federal crimes when they assessed Russia's actions during the 2016 election, a senior...
Australia Charges Chinese Woman for Allegedly Spying on Local Buddhists
Breitbart
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August 4, 2025
A Chinese citizen with permanent residency in Australia was charged on Monday with covertly gathering information on an Australian Buddhist group and passing it along to the Public Security Bureau of China. The defendant is the third person to be...
ITBP procures local food produce under Mission Arun Himveer
The Arunachal Times
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TEZU, 4 Aug: The 9th Battalion of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) on Monday made its first procurement of local organic produce under Mission Arun Himveer. The procured items included 200 kgs of bananas, 100 kgs of pumpkins, and 100 kgs of...
Government’s BNG proposal poses nature and economic risks, research finds
Edie
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August 4, 2025
A new analysis by ecological consultancy Arbtech has found that the UK could miss out on the benefits of nature restoration and economic benefits by exempting small-scale developments from the BNG mandate. The BNG mandate compels the developers of...
Court Blocks Arkansas Law Requiring Ten Commandments in Every Public School Classroom and Library
American Civil Liberties Union
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – In a victory for religious freedom and church-state separation, a federal district court issued a preliminary injunction today in Stinson v. Fayetteville School District No. 1, prohibiting the school district defendants from...
Exclusive: Trump Axes Five Members of Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico
Breitbart
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August 5, 2025
President Donald Trump on Friday fired five members of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico (FOMBPR), Breitbart News can exclusively report. A White House official informed Breitbart News that Chairman Arthur J. Gonzalez,...
Fargo mayor lays out staff, service cuts in preliminary budget
InForum - North Dakota
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August 4, 2025
FARGO — The city of Fargo has earmarked a score of spending cuts to city services, weed spraying and, for the second year in a row, reductions in staffing at Fargo Cass Public Health. After months of debating what to cut to address the city’s $6.8...
DOJ denies genders of trans servicemembers in court filing filled with “childish name-calling”
LGBTQ Nation - California
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August 4, 2025
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) denies that the transgender servicemembers challenging President Donald Trump’s ban on trans people serving openly in the military are the gender they say they are. On Friday, August 1, the DOJ filed its...