LAS CRUCES — “The beginning of a governmental business meeting is not the time for prayer,” Jan Thompson told the board of Doña Ana County Commissioners on Tuesday. Since 2018, the commissioners’ ...
Over the last five years, almost all invocations before Modesto City Council meetings have been given by Christian faith leaders, but it’s unclear when the practice began or how it might impact civic ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. OTTUMWA — The City of Ottumwa will be offering volunteers the opportunity to provide an invocation at meetings moving forward. The ...
The invocation was Sikh — a faith that’s more than 500 years old, with roots in India and Pakistan, practiced today by ...
POST FALLS, Idaho — Council members pumped the brakes Tuesday after Mayor Randy Westlund proposed opening future city meetings with an invocation. “I would like to add a simple non-sectarian ...
The wood-lined walls of the Meridian City Council chambers have heard a lot: hours of testimony on proposed In-N-Outs; impassioned pleas about new subdivisions and the challenges of city growth. But ...
GREEN BAY — As the City Council began, as usual, with the Pledge of Allegiance, the idea behind its words of “One nation, under God, indivisible” was under scrutiny Tuesday. The issue divided not just ...
Brevard's newest school board member is kicking 2025 off with a goal of putting prayer at the start of meetings. Adding a voluntary invocation before board meetings, John Thomas said, would be “a ...