Washington residents challenge state laws eliminating local parking regulations and environmental review processes for housing developments. Citizens fight to restore community input and control. #LocalControl #HousingPolicy
#LocalControl
Florida Mayor Notified Sheriffs Not to Enforce Immigration Law: https://newscats.org/florida-mayor-notified-sheriffs-not-to-enforce-immigration-law
#ImmigrationLaw,#LocalControl,
#FederalInjunction,#ParentalRights,#SanctuaryCities,#LawEnforcementTensions,#Jacksonville,#StateVsLocal,#DeSantisPolicies,#CourtBlockedLaw, #KevinCarrico, #DonnaDeegan, #IllegalImmigration
DOJ dismisses lawsuits in KY and MN, returning $1B+ to local city budgets. Landmark decision reshapes federal consent decree process and supports local public safety #LocalControl #PublicSafety
Dr. Remington Nevin, St. Clair County’s Medical Director, joins Eileen with key updates from the Health Board:
👨👩👧👦 Parents’ rights & vaccines
☀️ Solar farms & local regulations
What’s being decided could impact your backyard.
https://bluewaterhealthyliving.com/shows/eileen-tesch-living-exponentially/update-on-solar-facilities-dr-remington-nevin/
#StClairCounty #HealthFreedom #ParentsRights #LocalControl #GBSMedia #CommunityMatters
Visited the team at Coulisse (Motionblinds) last week — our latest Works with Home Assistant partner!
Got a look at what’s coming next, and it’s clear: the smart shading industry is about to shift 😎
#HomeAssistant #SmartHome #OpenHome #MotionBlinds #LocalControl
March 5 update from District 2 Monterey County Supervisor Glenn Church on the Moss Landing battery fire.
“Current monitoring focuses on hydrogen fluoride and particulate matter, but traditional air quality indexes measure ozone, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and particle pollution —not heavy metals. However, when batteries burn, it is reasonable to assume that small heavy metal particles are released into the air.”
https://mailchi.mp/co/supervisor-churchs-march-2025-newsletter
#MontereyCounty #MossLanding #BatteryFire #energy #EnergyStorage #LithiumBatteries #LocalGovernment #LocalControl
Jan 23 update from District 2 Monterey County Supervisor Glenn Church on the Moss Landing battery fire.
https://mailchi.mp/co/mosslandingbatteryfire-update2?e=68a4a27afc
#MontereyCounty #MossLanding #BatteryFire #energy #EnergyStorage #LithiumBatteries #LocalGovernment #LocalControl
We encourage a thorough read of newsletter released this eve by District 2 Monterey County Supervisor Glenn Church on the Moss Landing battery fire. https://us21.campaign-archive.com/?u=b91306d327dee38ad97c7fa73&id=937ea505d1
"When I took office two years ago, I accepted several tours of the #Vistra facility, including a tour inside the building that burned. The facility and its safety systems appeared impressive. I was personally given the guarantee that a fire similar to the one that occurred in 2022 at the neighboring PG&E / #Tesla operation could not happen at Vistra. We know that is not true. This disaster is worse.
…
"There has been some great #news reporting on this story, but there have also been some errors. There is a great deal of #misinformation being spread. That is because there are a lot of unknowns. I would urge everyone to doublecheck every source."
#MontereyCounty #MossLanding #BatteryFire #energy #EnergyStorage #Vistra #PGE #LocalGovernment #LocalControl
https://www.thecentersquare.com/california/article_ec839ece-c7af-11ef-a03d-93f8e3efc572.html “the severe shortage of housing is a matter of statewide concern and not a municipal affair” #shortage #housing #zoning #california #sb9 #sb450 #localcontrol #homelessness
"In 1939, more than $200 million worth of vegetables were grown in 4.8 million farm home gardens... In 1944, 18.5 million gardeners took part in Victory Gardens, supplying 40% of the nation’s fresh vegetables."
The American people, through mutual aid and cooperative action, developed a genius plan to not only ensure the supply of resources to the war effort but to enhance the health, well-being, and solidarity of the population.
Whether we acknowledge it or not, our lives are being invaded and occupied by massive systems that produce our food, destroying our health and the health of the environment. It's war time, but this time, the goal is to claim the resources taken over by the mass, factory agriculture system and bring them back into local control. The Victory Garden revolution is the solution to bring sovereignty back to the people.
#victorygarden
#permaculture
#communityagriculture
#gangstagarden
#homegrown
#mutualaid
#localcontrol
#foodsecurity
#fooddesert
#foodforest
#directdemocracy
Victory Gardens on the World War II Home Front (U.S. National Park Service)
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/victory-gardens-on-the-world-war-ii-home-front.htm#:~:text=Victory%20Gardens%20freed%20up%20agricultural,their%20families%20enjoyed%20better%20nutrition.
#Subsidiarity: Grounding the digital network within local institutions.
"…scholars @ntnsndr & @amyadele (2022) argue that #Mastodon exemplifies “subsidiarity”: a #governance principle holding that subordinate or #local organizations should make decisions and perform the functions that they can, rather than ceding #localcontrol to a dominant central power, except when necessary."
@inquiline
https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13367/11436
Home Assistant delivers SO MUCH MORE than Apple Home! It’s not even close.
You don’t have to be a geek to create a dashboard like mine. Just a little patience and a willingness to learn.
I have seen some dashboards that make mine look preschool-level. Seriously. Go check out Bubble Cards or Minimalist and get ready to be blown away.
If you are a local government during a historic housing shortage, what do you do? You pause permitting of new housing. Because, I guess, you need time to figure out how to do the job you've always had. #WalkerMI #housingcrisis #zoning #localcontrol #EndLocalControl
https://www.crainsgrandrapids.com/news/real-estate/walker-to-consider-a-moratorium-on-permits-for-high-density-residential-projects/
@breadandcircuses The "system change" we need is eventually going to have to come from the local level. Transportation, housing, and land use are all key to decarbonization, and are mostly governed at the nonpartisan local level.
Try to build a wind farm, a walkable neighborhood, or use some road space for low carbon transport -- local NIMBYs will ensure that nothing gets done.
Unfortunately, our climate problems go far beyond Micro$oft and Lockheed.
#Monopoly: Senate leaders are still trying to keep the independent happy.
#LocalControl: Arizona Dems are done with that.
By John Nichols
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/kyrsten-sinema-democrats-arizona/
Whenever someone in #waleg mentions local control in the #Homes4WA debate:
"Local control does not even require overt racial hatred. That is what is so insidious about it. It will automatically perpetuate racial segregation."
https://furmancenter.org/research/iri/essay/housing-discrimination-and-local-control
This has been true in Washington for an entire generation. Many Washington legislators came of age in an era of #localcontrol making housing segregation worse
https://www.olympiatime.com/2023/02/how-our-history-of-downzoning-is.html?m=1
Imagine having a say in how your electric utility is run and helping make decisions like how to improve service or get more #RenewablePower.
That will happen when local nonprofit #PineTreePower manages our grid instead of corporations from away.
Some thoughts on local control over planning and land use management.
#LosAngeles #Planning #Urbanism #LocalControl #WhiteSupremacy #RealEstate #Gentrification #Settler #Colonialism
Avangrid's lawyers chalk up a victory in Maine's Supreme Court in CMP #NECEC case.
If things don't go your way at the polls, no problem: just send in the lawyers to work the courts. It's the #Avangreed way.
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