Word: mayors
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There has not been a municipal audit since 1985, but estimates of current debt run as high as $40 million. The city's mercurial third-term mayor, Carl Officer, 37, has gone so far as to propose selling city hall and six fire stations to raise cash, assuming anybody would buy them. City employees routinely get paid a month or more late...
...December a task force appointed by Illinois Governor James Thompson declared a financial emergency in East St. Louis and noted, in understatement, "There is growing public concern over the city's ability to provide basic municipal services required to ensure public safety and the welfare of its citizenry." Protested Mayor Officer: "I do all I can with the revenue I have." The task force offered a loan but conditioned it on Officer's accepting a state-approved financial director with total control over city spending. So far Officer has not agreed to that condition, and the municipal crisis deepens...
...anyone walking out in support ofthe people that are negotiating with Harvard,"says the mayor, pounding on the table foremphasis. "I would refuse to eat. I would havestood up, and I would have started banging disheslike they do in prison...
Just three months ago, an article in The New York Times referred to Harvard's Kennedy School as a "'temple of technocracy' on the Charles" and quoted the former Boston Mayor Kevin White as saying that while he had once actively brought young Harvard graduates into City Hall, he would not hire Kennedy School people...
...like a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," says Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci. "When he's in the business office, he's a frozen popsicle. But then when he's with people he's different...