Word: mayors
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...special council session called by Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, the council voted 4-3 not to send the petition to the state legislature. If passed by the both the council and the legislature, the measure would reinstate a 1981 law struck down last month by the Supreme Judicial Court...
...petition comes as the Dukakis administration has threatened deeper cuts in local aid. The initiative would provide "a guaranteed formula that returns to the cities and towns a fair share of tax dollars...the basic services every community needs," said Peabody Mayor Peter Torigian, the committee's chair...
After a short recess, Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci proposed an order to correct the differences in past evaluations by exempting certain property owners from rent control...
When Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley appointed a special commission in April to come up with a new city ethics code, critics dismissed it as a face-saving device. After all, Bradley had just narrowly won re-election after a campaign that centered on his alleged ethical lapses -- including his serving as a paid adviser to two banks that did business with the city. But last week the seven- member panel proved it was no rubber stamp. It proposed a code of conduct for city employees and elected officials that may be the most stringent in the country...
Bernard Sanders, who from 1981 to 1989 was the only socialist mayor in America, is the former mayor of Burlington, Vermont. He is currently a fellow at the Institute of Politics (IOP) at the Kennedy School...