Word: mayors
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Small favors can also loom large in an off-year election. Carter pleased Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic by inviting him to fly aboard Air Force One to attend Pope Paul's funeral last August. The President will spend the night at Bilandic's home when he campaigns in Chicago in early November. But in Ohio Carter irritated Cuyahoga County Chairman Tim Hagan by inviting Cleveland Mayor Dennis Kucinich to the White House. The hotheaded young mayor has antagonized Hagan and other party leaders by refusing to endorse most of the local Democrats. Last week Hagan joined other Democrats...
...listeners should march on city hall to protest recent increases in property taxes that in some cases amounted to 100%. Last week about 4,000 angry taxpayers mobbed the city's downtown for four hours, scrambling up scaffolding at the city hall, clambering on top of the mayor's limousine and waving signs reading DON'T PAY TAXES! Despite two arrests, the demonstrators refused to disperse until Mayor John Markey appeared at a second-floor window and said he sympathized with them but could do nothing. The crowd soundly booed the mayor, and then went home...
Will Cambridge Mayor Thomas W. Danehy get the City Council to join an injunction suit against the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA)? Will the MBTA listen to Cambridge citizens as they cry rape? Will the Red Line ever be extended from Harvard Square to the Alewife Parkway...
Monday's 7-2 City Council vote to adopt a non-binding moratorium on construction indicates that the Council may join in the injunction suit. But non-binding moratoriums are a leap away from legal action and Cambridge Mayor Thomas W. Danehy is unsure of council support...
Likewise, Walter Gilbert, American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology, has been forced to cancel his talk on "Proinsulin from Bacteria" scheduled for this afternoon at 5 p.m. in room 18, 2 Divinity Ave. Al Vellucci, the former mayor of Cambridge, who is known for his strong support of recombinant DNA research, could not be reached for comment...