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...look at the terrain, and I see a winnable race,” said Simmons, who was the nation’s first openly lesbian African-American mayor...
Former Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons declared her candidacy for Anthony D. Galluccio’s former State Senate seat last Friday, becoming the second Cambridge City Councillor to join the ten-candidate race...
...with some six inches recorded already, and snow falling at a rate of as much as two inches per hour at mid-morning - is poised to shatter a 111-year-old record for total seasonal precipitation. "No one ever has seen this much snow in Washington, D.C.," according to Mayor Adrian Fenty, who said on Wednesday that the city would ask the federal government to foot some of the cleanup costs. The city's Department of Transportation director of communications, Karyn Le Blanc, told TIME that plow crews were on their ninth 12-hour shift clearing snow, a stretch that...
...However, cost overruns and the recession forced Vancouver to step in and bail out the private developers who were charged with financing the project. The city avoided the humiliation of welcoming the world with a half-built Olympic Village, but at a great price: in early 2009, new Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson declared that taxpayers were "on the hook" for the $1 billion project. "What ended up happening was that the city became a bank for private-sector development," says Mark Cutler, director of Olympic Village Development for the Vancouver Organizing Committee, the body that is operating the complex during...
Decker was a candidate for mayor earlier this year, but withdrew from the race. Since then both she and Simmons have announced that they are running in the special election for the Mass. State Senate Seat from which Anthony D. Galluccio resigned in January...