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Columbus City Council is scheduled to hold a 4 p.m. oversight hearing Aug. 10 on an audit involving the Columbus Division of Police’s use of Flock license-plate-reader cameras and questions about the system’s role in federal immigration enforcement.
The Oklahoma State Election Board lists two state questions as qualified for the Aug. 25, 2026, election. Two additional questions are listed as qualified for Nov. 3.
A Miami-Dade Circuit Court trial is scheduled to begin Aug. 3, 2026, in a lawsuit seeking to block the proposed transfer of nearly three acres for a Donald Trump presidential library.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy signed Alaska’s fiscal-year 2027 budget on July 3, 2026. The governor’s office said the enacted spending plan includes school-infrastructure investments and additional funding for districts facing higher energy and related costs.
Vermont’s statewide primary is scheduled for Aug. 11, with an Aug. 6 filing deadline listed for primary write-ins, third-party and independent candidates. The election will help set the Nov. 3 ballot for statewide and legislative offices.
Denver City Council has passed Ordinance 26-0864, placing a proposed charter amendment on the Nov. 3, 2026 ballot concerning the city and county’s budget and appropriation process.
Wichita’s City Council has a meeting and agenda listed for Aug. 4, the same date as the 2026 Kansas primary. The city’s adopted 2026 budget lists $342.8 million in city budget spending and $776.6 million across all funds.
Gov. Mike Kehoe announced four constitutional amendments for Missouri’s Aug. 4, 2026, primary ballot, including an income-tax phaseout measure and measures involving amendment procedures.
Pennsylvania lists Aug. 3, 2026, as the final day for candidates and political groups to circulate and file nomination papers for third-party and independent candidates in the Nov. 3 general election.
The U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division plans to monitor Detroit’s Aug. 4, 2026 primary election, one of three Michigan locations named in the federal effort.
Missouri’s emergency order for severe storms, flooding and flash flooding activates the state emergency operations plan and is scheduled to end Aug. 10 unless extended.
Spokane County says 804 voters in Precinct 6065 received ballots that omitted the proposed West Plains Aquifer Protection District measure. The county said it will mail supplemental ballots and instruct voters to return both ballots.
Gov. Jim Pillen reissued an executive order July 15 allowing continued delivery of hay and other supplies to Nebraska areas ravaged by wildfires.
Candidates seeking Louisiana’s U.S. House seats must qualify Aug. 5-7 for the Nov. 3 open-primary ballot under a new process enacted after the state canceled previously scheduled House contests.
Augusta announced that remaining City Hall offices, including Development Services and Assessing, moved to a four-day operating schedule effective July 13, 2026.
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul said a judge rejected the Trump administration’s claimed authority to use an OMB regulation to broadly cancel or withhold grants Congress authorized.
Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed New Jersey’s FY 2027 Appropriations Act on June 30, making it the state’s governing spending plan for the fiscal year that began July 1, 2026.
Virginia’s statewide primary election will be held Tuesday, Aug. 4, after House Bill 29 moved it from June 16. Early voting has ended, and mailed absentee ballots must arrive by noon Aug. 7.
San Diego’s City Clerk will hold a public random drawing Aug. 5 to set ballot order for City Council races in districts 2, 4, 6 and 8 ahead of the Nov. 3 general municipal election.
Indianapolis-Marion County leaders are considering Proposal 26-192 on road funding and transportation obligations, while a related plan to raise vehicle excise surtax and wheel-tax charges faces opposition from Mayor Joe Hogsett.
Boston’s Election Department says early voting for the 2026 Massachusetts state primary will run from Saturday, Aug. 22, through Friday, Aug. 28.
Nashua’s calendar listed a 7 p.m. special Board of Aldermen public hearing for July 27, 2026, on proposed Ordinance O-26-017 and Resolution R-26-048.
