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Sadiq Khan accuses Government of ‘dither and delay’ over fire safety rules

The mayor said the lack of clarity was causing the building of more than 34,000 homes to stall

Evening Standard

Thames Water boss: Warm sewage has ‘tremendous potential’ for green energy

The firm’s CEO said power could also be generated from solar panels in reservoirs

Evening Standard

Chicago facing 2024 budget shortfall of $538 million — more than a third of it tied to migrant crisis

Mayor Brandon Johnson didn’t take his predecessor’s word for it when Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she’d left the city in great financial shape, with an $85 million shortfall. And it’s a good thing the new mayor was skeptical, his top aides told some City Council members in a budget briefing.

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No plans for free school meals in London secondary schools, deputy mayor confirms

Sadiq Khan’s deputy said the Government should be funding meals for all children

Evening Standard

Former Ald. Helen Shiller’s granddaughter seeks OK to open weed shop in Westside Justice Center building

A City Hall zoning hearing is set Tuesday for the store, called Baked. The proposed shop would replace a restaurant in a building that houses the legal aid center in East Garfield Park.

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Cross-party calls for investigation into deputy mayor Shirley Rodrigues are refused

The calls for a probe into Ms Rodrigues’ conduct came from Tory and Lib Dem politicians

Evening Standard

Lib Dem London mayoral candidate Rob Blackie would make Ulez ‘better targeted’

Mr Blackie said the recently-expanded clean air zone is too ‘blunt’ and should be ‘fairer’

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Mayor activates emergency heatwave response to help rough sleepers

The protocol is usually only activated when temperatures plummet to freezing in the winter

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan insists ‘Londoners are with me’ on Ulez expansion

Khan insisted that the move would not lose him the next mayoral election

Evening Standard

Most Chicago streets still aren’t safe enough for bicycles

With crashes involving cyclists on the rise and climate change leaving little choice but to find alternatives to fossil-burning cars, it’s time City Hall made upgrading cycling infrastructure a priority.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago’s theater scene takes another blow as cutbacks hit iconic Steppenwolf Theatre

Steppenwolf’s troubles make it clear that City Hall, business leaders and the philanthropic community must now work together to help preserve live theater.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago cycling advocates want more protected bike lanes, lower speed limits

The number of crashes involving bicycles is on the rise in Chicago.

Chicago Sun-Times

Ulez expansion: London’s green dream comes alive

War of words as another five million join capital’s clean air zone

Evening Standard

City Hall to consider MP’s call to grant Ulez exemption for hospice staff and patients

Jon Cruddas, the Labour MP for Dagenham and Rainham, made the request in a letter to Seb Dance, London’s deputy mayor of transport

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A year in, Chicago’s migrant crisis shows no sign of letting up

The state, we think, should be more aggressive in coordinating efforts to find suburbs, or even downstate communities, willing to take in asylum seekers.

Evening Standard

TfL unveils over 80 new zero-emission buses in Sutton, with health message

City Hall hopes the buses - along with the expanded Ulez - will improve Londoners’ health

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak ‘overruled from blocking Sadiq Khan’s Ulez expansion’

Legal advice said to have concluded Government block on Ulez expansion would fail if challenged

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan: Housing crisis is forcing London’s public sector workers to quit

The mayor warned that the capital’s public sector workers ‘are faced with stagnant wages’

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Almost 300,000 pupils in London will get mayor’s free school meals

City Hall says that thanks to the policy, families will save ‘upwards of £440 per child’

Chicago Sun-Times

Biden taps Rahm’s former City Hall corporation counsel to be top White House lawyer

Ed Siskel — nephew of the late Chicago film critic Gene Siskel — is familiar with high-stakes congressional investigations and other politicized probes.

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Sadiq Khan accused of trying to ‘squash’ scientific ‘dissent’ over Ulez

The Labour mayor’s deputy called on an academic funded by City Hall to rebut studies that questioned Ulez effectiveness.

Bangkok Post

Overpass project suspended after worker killed

City Hall has ordered the suspension of work on an overpass at Bang Kapi intersection after a 10-metre-long sheet of metal crashed to the ground as it was being lifted by a crane, killing one worker and injuring two others.

Evening Standard

Poll: One in three London homeowners think they will struggle with mortgage costs in next six months

Mayor Sadiq Khan said the polling further proved the need for Government intervention

Evening Standard

Building new luxury homes makes even lower-income housing more affordable, City Hall finds

It said that market-rate homes helped make cheaper housing more affordable by “creating chains of vacancies and moves that can reach across an entire housing market area”

Evening Standard

Row after just three affordable homes started in London last quarter

Criticism against the mayor was branded “utter nonsense” by a source close to Mr Khan, who said it had been impossible to start new affordable homes due to Government delays

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