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Menlo Park wants to start charging people to exercise their constitutional rights. How long before the city slaps a tax on people who want to exercise their right to free speech, or to peaceably assemble?

"We never thought something like that would happen to us. From one day to the next, our lives were turned upside-down."

It's becoming more of a mystery with each passing meeting, an environmental report surely can't take this long. We've been talking about the motorhome park for about five years and we're no further down the road with it from what I can see.

"We're all over the place here - this meeting should be suspended. We should get our ducks in a row and come back here and do this properly. I mean it's like a circus - you're saying one thing, and then you're going back. You're kind of changing your answers."

The Burlingame property, which previously housed a treatment facility, is already configured for services, allowing for a quicker opening compared to the El Camino Real site.

"It's stunning to me that we have a sitting President building and naming monuments after himself. Certainly I would work with the Palm Beach County Airport Authority and that particular community to see if that's something that's important to them. At this point, it does seem a little self-serving by the President to do what he's doing."

Of the more than 250 readers who responded, a 73% majority said gas-powered leaf blowers should be allowed, while 26% backed the bans.

Reorganisation presents a once-in-a-generation chance to make sure our councils match the modern realities of our places, making sure outdated boundaries are not constraining growth, particularly in our towns and cities.

Assemblyman Avelino Valencia's 'Home Run for Anaheim Act' aims to mandate that any new lease or sale of Angel Stadium requires the team to revert to the Anaheim Angels name, reflecting the city's support over the years.

Members of Kent County Council voted 45 in favor of a 3.8% increase in allowances, with 22 against and five abstentions, despite concerns over timing and optics.

Rose and Chris Murray, whose home in Faughan Hill, Bohermeen, is set to be turned to rubble following a 20-year dispute, have claimed that the cost of knocking the 526 sq m house 'will come back on the taxpayer.'

Ross Drysdale, 73, constructed the sheltered walkway at his Christchurch bungalow in October 2024, aiming to provide his wife, Victoria, with greater independence following a severe stroke. Mr Drysdale was informed by a building inspector that the structure conformed with Building Regulations, but did not secure planning permission.

In the governor's proposed budget, $648 million is allocated for CHIPS to be divided among every town and the 62 counties in the state, while $4.5 billion is proposed for downstate transit and the New York City subway system.

The state of our city is resilient, disciplined and forward looking. We are not without challenges. But we also have remarkable strengths. Fiscal challenges placed tension between what we want to do and what we can afford to do.

Common Wealth cited the example of the Warmer Homes consortium, led by Portsmouth city council, which was allocated 22m among 31 authorities over three years. This breaks down to about 450-650 homes per year, or 15-20 homes per local authority per year.