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...anymore," he gripes. "They're not looking after the needs of the common worker." The Christian Democrats are not the only alternative, though. At a national level, the Greens are doing well in opinion polls even though they are in coalition with the spd. Doris Janicke, the Green party mayor in the Duisburg city council, is instead working in coalition with the cdu. The two parties agree on the importance of protecting the environment, and even on some economic issues, says Janicke. She too took aim at the wooden bird - and missed. "As a young girl, I was told...
...position in the Roman Catholic hierarchy. A native of Long Beach, California, who headed the diocese in Portland, Oregon, before moving to San Francisco in 1995, he is known for his diplomatic skills, which temper his conservative positions on most doctrinal issues. For example, though a vocal opponent of Mayor Gavin Newsom's flurry of gay weddings last year, Levada had earlier worked out a Solomonic solution that resulted in health benefits for gay partners. He has been criticized for his slow and secretive response to priest sexual-abuse scandals in San Francisco, where at least 68 lawsuits over alleged...
...paper had months earlier begun investigating his personal life. The results of that probe, which culminated in a controversial Internet sting operation, landed on Spokane's collective doorstep on May 5 like a paper bomb. "For a quarter-century," the report began, "the man who is now Spokane's mayor has used positions of public trust--as a sheriff's deputy, Boy Scout leader and powerful politician--to develop sexual relationships with boys and young men." The FBI last week opened an inquiry into whether the mayor should be investigated for corruption. West has told the paper he does...
Several young gay men have since told the paper of their encounters with West. Ryan Oelrich, 24, says the mayor appointed him to Spokane's human-rights commission after they met on gay.com, the same website on which the Spokesman-Review set its trap. Oelrich says he resigned after six months because West kept propositioning him and once offered him $300 to swim naked with him. Most disturbing were the accusations leveled by two men--one in jail, the other on parole--who say they were molested by West in the late 1970s, when they were between the ages...
...point in Monday’s meeting, Decker suggested that mayors selected by the Council had not been effective leaders of the School Committee, which the mayor must chair...