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The newcomers — “We call them the stroller mafia,” she told me — pushed through new taxes aimed at curbing short-term rentals to tourists that limit the already-scarce housing available to residents.

Sunday’s action has only pushed groups to advocate harder for immigrants with and without legal status, despite further thinning their resources.

The union has pushed for more oversight of self-driving vehicles, such as legislation mandating human operators in autonomous heavy duty trucks and other delivery vehicles.

Renters and people on fixed incomes have found themselves pushed to more urban locales.

It doesn't help that she's been scarred by her past experiences with a record label that, for almost a decade, pushed her into making generic dance records while refusing to release her debut album.