City Council unanimously voted Tuesday to proceed with a ballot question that asks voters to decide whether a government ...
City Council will vote to add a ballot measure to the May primary election ballot when it meets 6 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall.
As a candidate for city council two years ago, Carlos Monclus walked every street in Hazleton, knocked on doors and talked to ...
City council met for the first time since the Department of Justice filed a voting rights lawsuit last week. HAZLETON, Pa. — ...
The Department of Justice is bringing a lawsuit against Hazleton, PA because it said its city council is not Hispanic enough.
The Justice Department announced yesterday that it has filed a lawsuit against the City of Hazleton to challenge the city ...
The City of Hazleton is the focus of a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Justice Department claiming the current at-large method of electing city council members is discriminatory to the city’s Hispanic ...
No Hispanic candidate has ever been elected to the Hazleton City Council or appointed to fill a council vacancy, according to the lawsuit. It alleges that “racially polarized voting patterns ...