San Jose Gun Insurance Law Going Into Effect – NBC Bay Area Brown forgives uncollected traffic fines to allow driver license reinstatement – Oregon Capital Chronicle D.C. home rule imperiled by Kevin McCarthy speaker fallout - Axios Washington D.C. After pandemic, mental health crisis challenges legislatures - Pluribus News Mayors Introduce Global Declaration for Democracy | Strengthening Transatlantic Cooperation (gmfus.org) Jacksonville drops appeal of redistricting ruling,

CVS, Walgreens Will Pay $10 Billion Total To Settle Opioid-Related Lawsuits - MedCity News KC pays millions for police shooting and public is shut out | The Kansas City Star An Arizona woman sues Bullhead City over her arrest for feeding the hungry : NPR Ducey, AG must get Saudi firm to pay for groundwater use (azcentral.com) Black residents in Corpus Christi file a civil rights complaint to stop Texas’ first desalination plant (click2houston.com) Tallahassee city leaders dou

Rural areas to get $759M in grants for high-speed internet (msn.com) Cities Weigh Value of AI-Powered Gunshot Detection Tech - Bloomberg In California Cities, a New Frontier for Public Financing of Elections | Bolts (boltsmag.org) Private Companies Helped Ruin Jackson’s Water (levernews.com) Black Families Fall Further Behind on Homeownership | The Pew Charitable Trusts (pewtrusts.org) Plus a bonus story: Secretaries of state warn 'independent state legislature theory' would

Flint residents ‘disappointed and angry’ after dismissal of criminal water charges - mlive.com Climate change means California can't save every burned town - Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) Philadelphia issues apology for Holmesburg Prison experiments (inquirer.com) Times Square Gun Ban, Other NY Restrictions Blocked by Judge (1) (bloomberglaw.com) Republicans' rhetoric about cities—“soaked in blood”! “Living the purge”!—has lost touch with reality. (slate.com) President Call

What Does the Inflation Reduction Act Do for State and Local Government? (governing.com) What Should Mayors Do After Mass Shootings? - Bloomberg Ten cities and towns are poised to ban fossil fuels from new buildings - The Boston Globe Pipeline break spills 45,000 gallons of diesel in Wyoming - ABC News (go.com) Report: Rural Electric Cooperatives Lack Women, Minorities in Elected Positions | The Daily Yonder Ramsey County jail officers of color barred from guarding Derek Ch

What Croydon, a ‘Live Free or Die’ Town, Learned About Democracy - The New York Times (nytimes.com) Climate Activists Pivot to Local Action, Frustrated by Washington Gridlock - Bloomberg Newsom to Sign Bill Allowing Residents to Sue Over Illegal Guns - The New York Times (nytimes.com) Deadly heat: US cities are hiring 'chief heat officers' as they face increasing heat threat - CNN Pittsburgh passes three bills to protect reproductive freedom (pittsburghpa.gov) Oklahoma T

As NYC Slashes School Budgets, Art Teachers Are Feeling the Squeeze (hyperallergic.com) Uvalde Schools’ Police Chief, Criticized Over Mass Shooting Response, Quits City Council - WSJ Is your dishwasher repairman packing heat? The case for ‘no carry’ gun defaults on private property | The Hill New York Moves to Enshrine Abortion Rights in State Constitution - The New York Times (nytimes.com) St. Paul's new basic income project: $12K cash plus college funds (twincities.com)

American influence has a new address on State Street - POLITICO Ellison says MN to protect out-of-state abortions if Roe falls (twincities.com) Justices seem poised to hear elections case pressed by GOP | AP News What a New Chesapeake Bay Bridge Could Really Cost - Bloomberg Supreme Court Gun Ruling 'Frightful In Its Scope': Hochul | Yorktown, NY Patch A Digital Map to Net Zero, Via Upstate New York - Bloomberg North Dakota’s Small Schools Fight for Survival (governing.com)

How Texas forces companies to stay neutral on gun control - or lose business (dallasnews.com) California Judicial Council Sued for Illegal Scheme to Fund Courts through Late Fees; San Mateo Court Stops Collecting Millions in Outstanding Debts and Waits for Governor and Legislature to Act. - LCCRSF Oklahoma becomes first state to ban almost all abortion access (19thnews.org) The Cityhood Movement Is Defeated in Metro Atlanta - Bloomberg Opinion | A local official sued me f

Cash piling up from bonds freeing migrants arrested in Texas border push | The Texas Tribune Will Disney lose Mickey Mouse, too? Josh Hawley targeting copyrights (tallahassee.com) Discrimination lawsuit settlement with St. Louis police chief finalist includes forced retirement (msn.com) Ahead of Supreme Court Gun Ruling, Adams ‘Very Concerned’ as City Hall Mulls Options - THE CITY Lightfoot: Parents, not just police, need to hold kids responsible for roaming streets after