Word: mayor
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...will heal the state's corruption woes. "Jon Corzine didn't run for this office on the promise that change would be easy," Obama said then. "This isn't somebody who's here because of some special interest or political machine." (See pictures of Cory Booker, Newark's mayor...
Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons praised Cut it Out’s unconventional methodology, noting that the program could reach people who might not know where else to turn...
Apparently, snowplows and street salt just won’t cut it. Moscow’s mayor Yury Luzhkov is bringing out the big guns when it comes to fighting snow this year in Russia’s blizzard-prone capital. According an article in Time Magazine, Luzkhov’s new initiative–ringing in at just a few million dollars–will have the Russian Air Force spraying snow-bearing clouds with a fine chemical mist that will force clouds to dump out their wintry precipitation before reaching the city’s borders...
...book does have that air of money around it, around its Bloombergesque mayor and around several of its characters. Given the state of the economy, though, does it reflect a time that has passed? I hope the book floats in time a little bit. It was certainly meant to. It doesn't even mention a year. But the money never goes away. I mean, the restaurants and bars are full in Manhattan. It can sometimes seem almost like zombie money - it just goes on doing what it did even though it's not alive anymore...
...ultimate blame for Detroit goes to the voters who elected Coleman Young mayor five times despite his constant race-baiting of white suburbanites and his unwillingness to work with corporations to keep them in the city to help jump-start the economy. Hopefully, Detroit voters will now realize that electing politicians who scapegoat others instead of finding solutions are not looking out for their best interests...