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...mayor of Boston is a vassal of the legislature and the victim of a feudal tax structure," Collins declared at a forum sponsored by the Joint Center on Urban Studies, where five "new mayors" attempted to explain where they find the power to govern...
...Mayors--Where to Find the Power to Govern?" will be the topic of a forum tonight at 8 p.m. at Sanders Theatre in Memorial Hall...
However, Plank discredits all these possibilities. The only explanation Quadros himself offered was "there are obscure forces in Brazil with which I cannot cope and against which I cannot govern...
...view of some of its despairing critics, New York City is just too large and complex for any one man to govern properly-and Mayor Robert Ferdinand Wagner has certainly done much to confirm that belief during his eight fumbling, scandal-specked years in office. But Wagner is a Democrat, and New York is an overwhelmingly Democratic city. And last week, after one of the dreariest campaigns in its history, New York gave Bob Wagner 1,239,533 votes for a plurality of 402,980 over his Republican opponent, Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz. Running as an independent, City Controller Lawrence...
...suburbs was in full surge, tax revenues were plunging, building within the city was at a standstill, and the downtown area alone was short 29,000 parking spaces. Effective plans for rehabilitating the city were lost in the bureaucratic babble of congressional committees, commissions, boards and councils that govern Washington...