Word: mayoral
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...city’s reserve, or “free cash,” funds to meet $17 million of Cambridge’s 2009 budgetary needs. The city’s reserve fund, which currently contains $91 million, is the largest in the area, said Vice Mayor Brian P. Murphy ’86-’87. For each of the past three years, Cambridge has taken $9 million of this money to reduce property tax increases. The new tax plan did not meet universal acclaim. Kathy Podgers, who frequently comments at Council meetings and is an advocate...
...front yards filled with piles of wet carpet, soaked clothes, moldy pots and pans, beach chairs and books, all water-laden, useless, even dangerous from soaking in the diseased stew, and hung about with the smell of decay. Perhaps 20,000 households share this circumstance, according to Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas...
...hard-won, and it may not last. California, and in particular San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, have been fighting for gay marriage since 2004, when Newsom ordered the county clerk to begin issuing licenses to same-sex couples. Martin and Lyon were the first married then, as well, but their marriage was invalidated along with 3,954 others when the state Supreme Court ruled that Newsom had overstepped his authority in ordering the licenses issued. Now, a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage comes up for a vote in November. Women are walking down the aisle together...
With America's financial cathedrals crumbling around him, the billionaire mayor of its biggest city made a power play. Citing a desire to shepherd the country's economic hub through a period of crisis, Michael Bloomberg announced on Oct. 2 that he would ask the New York City Council to amend a 15-year-old law restricting Big Apple mayors to two terms in office. "We have planned for a slowdown in New York, but we may well be on the verge of a meltdown," he said by way of explanation. (See TIME's cover story on Michael Bloomberg here...
...unclear whether New York City's term limits law, which was reaffirmed in a 1996 referendum, will ultimately be overhauled-or whether an amendment is even in the popular mayor's best interest. History hasn't been kind to the city's third-term mayors, of whom there have been four; the most recent, Ed Koch, saw his popularity plummet during a tumultuous final term. A third Bloomberg administration would be forced to confront massive challenges, not the least of which would be steering the city through the fallout from Wall Street's implosion while coping with budget cuts. Even...