Word: mayor
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...ordinance, which the council approved with an 8-5 vote on Dec. 17, went into effect when it was signed by Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino...
...Suarez the added powers seem to have been too strong an ether. Soon after taking office, he tried to fire most senior members of the government, including a police chief credited with cutting crime. The state attorney found the move illegal, and the mayor was forced to agree to six months of oversight by a local court...
...netted three officials last year--Suarez also decided to name an indicted ally, Humberto Hernandez, as chairman of the city commission. Hernandez goes on trial soon for money laundering and fraud. But after the state's Department of Law Enforcement announced an investigation into charges of vote fraud, the mayor also appointed Chairman Hernandez to lead a counterinvestigation into the department's investigation...
Bono gave up show business to become a restaurateur in the early '80s. The career switch landed him in Palm Springs, Calif., where his efforts to revamp his restaurant brought him into conflict with city zoning officials. He took on and took over city hall, becoming mayor in 1988. Bono found he had a taste for politics. A run for the Senate failed, but two years later the G.O.P. takeover of Congress swept him into the House as the Representative from California's 44th district. He was re-elected in '96. Bono sat on the House Judiciary Committee...
INAUGURATED. CHUCK BURRIS, 46, first African-American mayor of Stone Mountain, Ga., longtime headquarters of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan...