Month: May 2023

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A fight broke out Saturday at a political party campaign event for city council candidates in Minneapolis, prompting a call to police and injuries after the brawl stemmed from heated disagreements over the nominations. The Star Tribune reports that at least one person was taken to a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries and another was treated at the scene of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor endorsement convention for Minneapolis Ward 10. The Star Tribune reports that Minneapolis police spokesman Brian Feintech says officers made no arrests. Video posted on social media showed the disturbance starting after supporters of Minneapolis Councilwoman Aisha…

For Sonia Cortes, the battle for Sunset Park began with soup. Two years ago, after the pandemic ended her job as a dressmaker, Ms. Cortés began selling pozolea hot Mexican soup, a la park, a 25-acre strip of green in southwest Brooklyn. On a good Sunday, I might make $600 or $700. “I was able to pay my rent,” he said. By last fall, the Sunday market had grown to more than 80 vendors, mostly immigrant women selling Mexican food and wares on the street to large weekend crowds. They called it Tonatiuh Square, after an Aztec sun god. Every…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A fight broke out Saturday at a political party campaign event for city council candidates in Minneapolis, prompting a call to police and injuries after the brawl stemmed from heated disagreements over the nominations. The Star Tribune reports that at least one person was taken to a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries and another was treated at the scene of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor endorsement convention for Minneapolis Ward 10. The Star Tribune reports that Minneapolis police spokesman Brian Feintech says officers made no arrests. Video posted on social media showed the disturbance starting after supporters of Minneapolis Councilwoman Aisha…

A measure pulled midway through an Assembly vote this week shows state Democrats could struggle to reach a compromise on housing reform in the remaining weeks of the legislative session. With the session ending June 8, time is running out for lawmakers to pass legislation, such as Good Cause Eviction, they say is a priority after housing proposals were pulled from the state budget. A bill to ban landlords The rent delinquent statement to a credit agency was withdrawn Wednesday during a slow roll call vote initiated by Assembly Republicans. Twenty Democratic lawmakers voted against it, including Rep. Phil Steck,…

The producer who until recently was at the center of the BBC’s political coverage has criticized director-general Tim Davie’s failure to “really understand journalism” and lamented new threats to the standard of current affairs analysis of the station Rob Burley claims that an element of the BBC’s core purpose, questioning politicians and scrutinizing politics, is now being “virtually thrown away”. Speaking to the Observer this weekend, Burley, who previously produced the BBC’s live political output including The Andrew Marr Show, hit out at the corporation for losing many of its experienced and heavyweight interviewers and for the recent ” arrogance”…

BERLIN (AP) – Voters will go to the polls in the northern German state of Bremen on Sunday to decide whether the center-left Social Democrats should continue to rule a city they have ruled since World War II. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party came second behind its conservative rivals for the first time in 70 years in the last election, but retained power with the help of the Greens and Left party. Although recent polls show greater support for the Social Democrats than for their opponents in the Christian Democratic Union, Mayor Andreas Bovenschulte’s two junior coalition partners have lost ground….

Erdogan faces tight race against emboldened opposition The cost of living crisis is seen as affecting his chances. Turkey’s two-decade transformation at stake ANKARA, May 14 (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has cultivated the image of a tough and invincible leader during his two decades in power, but he appears vulnerable as the political landscape may be shifting in his favor opponent in Sunday’s presidential vote. Erdogan rose from humble roots to rule for 20 years and reshape Turkey’s domestic, economic, security and foreign policy, rivaling the historic leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk who founded modern Turkey a century ago….

Turkey’s two leading presidential candidates made their final public appearances in the final hours of campaigning on the eve of presidential and parliamentary elections that could significantly shape the NATO member’s future. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held his last election rallies in Istanbul on Saturday, before a so-called propaganda ban came into effect, accusing the opposition of colluding with US President Joe Biden to topple him as he a final appeal in the face of the biggest challenge to his 20 years of rule. Polls show Erdogan trailing main opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu. If no candidate wins more than 50…