Word: mayoral
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...Prince William County wasn't on McCain's radar at the start, it is now. "Until this past week, I'd always discounted all those talking heads saying Obama will win Virginia," says Earnie Porta, the Democratic mayor of Occoquan, a small town on the northeastern end of the county. "But this week I started to think that with the economy going the way it is, maybe he could...
Wasilla •readiness to be vice president is declared by current mayor...
...system for financial services that he and other politicians like to refer to as "light-touch" regulation. In June 2007, just days before he replaced Tony Blair as Prime Minister, Brown gave a rousing speech at the traditional black-tie dinner in Mansion House, the residence of the lord mayor of the City, brashly predicting an "era that history will record as the beginning of a new golden age for the City of London...
...this lack of visibility,” Sarah P. Nasser, a lesbian MIT graduate student who attended the meeting out of personal and academic interest. “There are complaints everywhere, even in such a safe community as Cambridge.” The meeting opened with remarks from Mayor E. Denise Simmons and her chief of staff, Jeff Walker. Simmons is the nation’s first black lesbian female mayor. Former Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72, who attended last night’s meeting, is also the first openly gay black mayor in the country...
...There’s a significant change in the belief of young people that the government can make a difference, that politics can produce results, and that it matters to them,” the former Nashville mayor said. “We had many indications of this at the IOP and Phillips Brooks House, but this poll indicates that from one side of America to the other, this generation of young people is ready to be involved and ready to lead...