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...journalism major from the University of Idaho, Palin started her political career in 1992 as a Wasilla city councilor. She was elected to the first of her two terms as mayor in 1996, and earned a reputation as "Sarah Barracuda" -- also her nickname as a feisty point guard on her high school basketball team -- for taking on entrenched bureaucrats. After running a strong race for lieutenant governor as an unknown in 2002, she made her mark on Alaska politics as a commissioner of a state oil and gas commission, when she tried to expose GOP officials with improper ties...
...drew a larger crowd and more comments, with residents, organization members, and a member of the city council in attendance. Though the budget had already been introduced at a meeting last month, the revised proposal presented by Superintendent Thomas D. Fowler-Finn received criticism from more quarters. Cambridge City Councilor Craig A. Kelley said that the budget proposal does not tell enough holistically about Cambridge public schools. “There’s a lot of information in this budget,” Kelley said. “I can’t put any of it in context...
...communication between the University and residents of the Riverside neighborhood.“As I understand it, a variety of neighbors think Harvard has not at all met its commitments,” Kelley writes in an e-mailed statement.The Cowperthwaite dispute highlights a larger issue, according to Councilor Sam Seidel: how universities negotiate building student housing with the surrounding community.“It’s pretty clear the University needs to be working with the council,” Seidel says. “I fully expect that Harvard understands that and has learned that lesson over...
...says she always wanted to be a parent. But by the time her son Pablo was born two years ago, Posse's live-in boyfriend had already moved out. "We were in love, and decided to have a child. Sometimes things don't work out," says the city councilor in Móstoles, southwest of Madrid. "But I would have had a child even if I'd had to go to a sperm bank. My family is Pablo and me, and I don't feel like I'm missing anything...
...will fight for the neighborhood with everything I’ve got. My number one commitment right now is to be the best city councilor I can be,” he says...