After a fierce debate, city council in Medicine Hat, Alta., approved the purchase by a vote of five to four.
In the latest development in the Costa Mesa outsourcing debate, city officials announced Wednesday they will cooperate with an outside audit commissioned by the Orange County Employees Assn.
After a wrenching public debate, city, county and state elected officials have decided to shut down the Road Home and build three new, smaller shelters with public and private funds.
Instead, the die-hards are buying raffle tickets, grumbling about last week's defeat, and debating City's slim chances of making the play-offs.
This spring, paid sick leave came up for vigorous debate in cities around the country.
Rather, the point is to think more carefully about "smartness", to see its potentials, to re-appropriate it and put it into a wider debate on cities and how they could be planned, managed and governed.
In June, after two years of public debate, the city council voted 10-0 to authorize the city to sell gasoline.
At the center of the debate over City Park is the blight study that the city commissioned.
Now, after a long-running debate, the city is considering new rules that industry backers say would effectively bar any drilling within city limits, depriving Dallas and its mineral holders of revenue.
Now how they will raise fresh finance is the main debate among City analysts.
