#Local Governance

Articles (7)

• 🇺🇸 Nation's first anti-data center referendum passes in Wisconsin — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  A Wisconsin city passed a referendum Tuesday targeting data center construction, requiring future large-scale projects that receive tax benefits to secure approval from local voters. Port Washington, ...

  Related: #Technology Infrastructure, #Environmental Policy
• 🇬🇧 ‘I just wish they’d let me feed my cats’: how council ban made one woman an animal welfare icon — 16/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>When Collette Boler was ordered to stop feeding a colony of feral cats in Thurnscoe, other animal lovers stepped in</p><p>“Two ladies from York have just been in,” said Collette Boler at the till o...

  Related: #Animal Welfare
• 🇬🇧 Give mayors more powers to tackle youth unemployment crisis, says Alan Milburn — 13/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Exclusive: Government’s work tsar warns that having young people not in work will create ‘long-term scarring effect’</p><p>Mayors across England should be given greater powers to tackle the youth u...

  Related: #Youth Unemployment
• 🇬🇧 Gambling crackdown in Romania as councils can ban betting shops and slot machines — 09/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>At least nine cities to pursue full bans as emergency decree gives decisive veto powers to mayors and local councils</p><p>Romania’s government has overhauled gambling regulations through an emerge...

  Related: #Gambling Regulation
• 🇺🇸 In Venice Beach, it's taken nearly a decade to not build low-income housing — 15/02/2026 [USA]

  The Venice Dell project has been approved again and again, only to be stymied by local officials who oppose it.

  Related: #Housing Policy, #Urban Development
• 🇺🇸 Cameron Guthrie asks possible captor to reach out — 06/02/2026 [USA]

  Cameron Guthrie asks possible captor to reach out

  Related: #Public Safety, #Missing Persons
• 🇺🇸 Tone shift in Minneapolis as Homan holds talks with local and state leaders — 29/01/2026 [USA]

  Border czar Tom Homan made his first public remarks Thursday since being ordered to take over immigration operations in Minneapolis. CBS News correspondent Ian Lee reports on the impact Homan is havin...

  Related: #Immigration, #Federal Influence