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Friday, June 9, 2023 by Jo Clifton
City Council members on Thursday took their first major step toward making key changes to rules limiting the height of buildings near single-family homes on a citywide basis.Austin's compatibility rules, which are among the strictest in the country, have been blamed consistently for the city's failure to produce reasonably priced housing.

Lovers of dance, music and theater rejoice: the FRESH MEAT FESTIVAL is baaaaack!Not that it ever went away, but COVID sent the festival into cyberspace for three long years.This June 14-18, the festival will return to Z Space Theater in San Francisco's Mission district.For 2013, the beloved festival will expand to six performances featuring 3 different programs-and the festival itself will take advantage of Z Space's 13,000 square feet, with artists performing all around the building.

Gov. Mark Gordon of Wyoming, a Republican, signed that state's abortion pill ban on the same day that he said he would allow another more sweeping measure banning abortion to become law without his signature.That law, which takes effect on Sunday, would ban abortion under almost all circumstances, making it a felony to provide an abortion.

EFF worked on bills in more than a dozen states this year, fighting for strong digital rights at the state level.Across the country, legislators focused on issues including medical privacy, biometric privacy, and the right to repair.In California, EFF was proud to support three bills -A.B. 2091, A.B. 1242, and S.B. 107- that passed into law and take crucial first steps to make California a data sanctuary state for anyone seeking reproductive or gender-affirming care.

A state Senate Republican is suing Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and 10 other Democrats over the upper chamber's Judiciary Committee vote against advancing Governor Kathy Hochul's pick of Judge Hector LaSalle to lead the state's highest court.The legal gambit, highly unusual for a typical state judiciary confirmation process, aims to force a floor vote LaSalle's nomination after it failed in the Judiciary Committee last month by a 10-9 vote.

The American, California State, and POW/MIA flags fly next to the California State Capitol building in Sacramento, California, U.S., on Thursday, March 30, 2017.California Governor Jerry Brown and legislative leaders proposed a plan to raise taxes and levy new fees to pay the bulk of $52.4 billion in transportation projects over 10 years.

Ouch! Amtrak has been running the Capitol Limited with only four cars.That's atrocious.When I took my family to Washington in 2001 the Capitol had a baggage car, two double-decked, 44-passenger Superliner sleeping cars, three 74-passenger Superliner overnight coaches, a dining car and a Sightseer lounge car with big upper-deck windows for viewing the Appalachians.

A rule banning gender-affirming care for most transgender minors in Florida went into effect Thursday, four months after the state's board of medicine voted in favor of the controversial move despite opposition from most major medical associations in the U.S.
In December, members of the Florida Board of Medicine and the state Board of Osteopathic Medicine voted at a joint meeting in Lake Buena Vista to drastically limit the treatment of gender dysphoria in minors.

A small group, including Stephanie Batchelor, left, sits on the steps of the Georgia state Capitol protesting the overturning of Roe v. Wade on June 26, 2022.The Georgia Supreme Court on Wednesday, Nov. 23, reinstated the state's ban on abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy.Ben Gray/AP ATLANTA  The Georgia Supreme Court Wednesday reinstated the state's ban on abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy, abruptly ending access to later abortions that had resumed days earlier.

The final report, according to those briefed on it, will have eight chapters that align closely with the evidence the panel unveiled during its public hearings in June and July:


     Trump's effort to sow distrust in the results of the election
     Trump's pressure on state governments or legislatures to overturn victories by Joe Biden
     Trump campaign efforts to send pro-Trump electors to Washington from states won by Biden
     Trump's push to deploy the Justice Department in service of his election scheme
     The pressure campaign by Trump and his lawyers against then-Vice President Mike Pence
     Trump's effort to summon supporters to Washington who later fueled the Jan. 6 mob
     The 187 minutes during which Trump refused to tell rioters to leave the Capitol
     An analysis of the attack on the Capitol


A person familiar with the drafting of the report emphasized that the report itself may not be limited to an executive summary and the eight chapters and is also expected to include appendices that capture more aspects of the committee's investigation.