Word: mayors
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...Mayor?" The Education of a City Politican...
...Mayor?" is written from this outsider's perspective. While 10 years on the Cambridge City Council--including two as mayor--should qualify Barbara Ackermann as an expert in the quirks of city government, one gets the sense that she never really feels confident about her abilities. Rules of politics and government that are second nature to a native like Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci, now the mayor, are an unfolding mystery to a relative newcomer like Ackermann...
...townsfolk are betting that Deadwood's tourism would be rekindled by the return of limited gambling. This week local voters are expected to approve a law allowing blackjack, poker and slot machines in the town. According to Mayor Tom Blair, all proceeds from the gambling, which could amount to as much as $600,000 annually, will be used to restore Deadwood's historic buildings. With bets on card games limited to $5, players should be able to enjoy a game without having to watch their backs...
Chicago, April 4 -- On the 21st anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Richard M. Daley was elected mayor after a campaign that sundered the city along racial lines...
...many Northern cities, the Chicago election was an ethnic power struggle. Six years ago, the charismatic Harold Washington became the city's first black mayor with a crusading campaign among blacks that also won the support of some white liberals. That coalition won him re-election in 1987. But his inarticulate successor, Acting Mayor Eugene Sawyer, who took over after Washington's death 16 months ago, was unable to hold the alliance together. His cause was doomed when Alderman Timothy Evans, a Washington disciple, rebuffed Jackson's appeal for black unity. With the black electorate split and black turnout...