A half dozen properties that are owned by a failed Skid Row landlord should be sold to the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the court-ordered receiver overseeing the buildings said, despite the Hollywood-based nonprofit's problematic history of operating low-income housing. The foundation has agreed to pay $27 million for six properties owned by the Skid Row Housing Trust, which financially collapsed last year. Under the deal, the foundation will continue to operate the buildings, half of which are...
The annual Arkansas legislative charity basketball fundraiser starts at 6 p.m. tonight at Little Rock Central High, but the trash talking started days ago. Can the House end its humiliating losing streak?
Skid Row is a playground for children again, despite homeless officials' assurances that it wouldn't happen. On Thursday morning, a 2-year-old rode a broom like a horse, running past a tent, where he lives with his parents. His 5-year-old friend, who lives in the tent next door, ran alongside him. A 9-year-old emerged from her own family’s tent to show her mother how she’d styled her hair with beaded clips. And a 1-year-old boy slept inside a car, his father trying to keep him from the cold in...
The Amarillo Crime Stoppers asked community members for information on 21-year-old Wyatt Asa Barton, who officials said is wanted by the Potter County Sheriff's Office for "Aggravated Assault w/ Deadly Weapon."
An agreement for the world's largest AIDS charity to buy a half-dozen troubled homeless housing developments in Skid Row collapsed Thursday, throwing into disarray the future of the properties and the city’s rescue efforts for one of its largest supportive housing portfolios. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation had reached a deal this month to buy six buildings owned by the Skid Row Housing Trust for $27 million in a receivership sale. But foundation spokesperson Ged Kenslea said in a statement...
While it won’t plug a looming revenue shortfall, Haverhill could receive $5.3 million more in state education aid over last year if the House Ways and Means Committee gets its way. The House last week proposed a formula that would give Haverhill $88 million in so-called Chapter 70 aid compared with $82.6 million in the […] The post House Ways and Means Committee Budget Boosts Haverhill’s Allocation of State Education Aid first appeared on WHAV.
The Senate is expected to easily pass the House’s $95 billion foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan this week but not before several senators who oppose the bundle have their say.
LGBTQ activist Ashley Brundage, 43, runs a company offering DEI training and seminars on how to overcome 'unconscious bias'. But the transgender mother-of-two was showered with praise by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis who told her to 'keep up the great work!'. The Democrat hopes his glowing testimonial will help win over Republicans as she bids to become the first transgender official elected in the state
WASHINGTON — Facing a divided party and pressure to act, House Speaker Mike Johnson rolled out three bills Wednesday to provide assistance to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, with the hope of holding final votes on Saturday. The bills represent a major test of Johnson’s ability to navigate a thicket of political and global challenges with a wafer-thin majority. And it comes as Johnson, R-La., faces a serious threat to his gavel from Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Thomas Massie, R-Ky....
House Speaker Mike Johnson has announced a plan for the congressional chamber to vote on measures that would provide U.S. aid for countries such as Israel and Ukraine.Johnson said there will be votes on the "measures separately in four different pieces" that will cover assistance for Israel, Ukraine, the Indo-Pacific, and issues pertaining to "national security priorities." GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia said she believes this is the "wrong direction." "Our border is the number one...
A mother has put her home up for sale after claiming the couple next door targeted her in a "relentless" campaign of harassment amid a bitter £150,000 dispute over the boundary between their two homes. Celia Tan, 57, removed the gutter from Robert and Helena Flach's home in 2019, saying it extended beyond the boundary between their homes and allowed water to flow onto their property. But the Flaxs claim the boundary line was 5 inches beyond the wall separating houses in Ruislip, west London,...
Venezuela's socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro attempted to issue a message in English to U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday to discuss the upcoming expiration of Biden's generous oil and gas sanctions relief package to his regime.