Word: mayorales
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Houston's mayoral race started with a debate over crime and a proposed monorail but ended in the gutter. After voters ousted incumbent Kathy Whitmire in last month's primary, the runoff between developer Bob Lanier, 66, and state legislator Sylvester Turner, 37, turned squalid. Lanier ads portrayed Turner, trying...
Waterbury, Conn., had a mayoral race with the twist. Former Democratic Mayor Edward D. Bergin, acquitted in April on state bribery charges, ousted three-term GOP Mayor Joseph J. Santopietro, who faces 21 criminal charges.
The rally concluded with comments urging women and minorities to stay involved in public affairs. Boston politico and former mayoral candidate Graylan Ellis-Hagler said. "Our time has come."
Welcome to Bobigny, fiefdom of the French Communist Party and not about to apologize. Will they rebaptize the streets and dismantle the monument to Vladimir Ilyich? Mayor Georges Valbon grins broadly and shakes his head. "I was suckled on the milk of the October Revolution," he says. "Lenin was a...
Rodriguez contended that he lived in mortal fear of Escobar. "Mr. Escobar is sick, a psycho, a lunatic," he said. "He knows he's lost the war against the state. He lives now only to destroy." Their enmity, Rodriguez said, began in 1987 when he refused to help Escobar kidnap...