Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Daley won the election, but yesterday faced Tim Evans, who is also Black, in the general election. Evans is running as an independent, in the "Harold Washington Party." It sure isn't the type of party Harold Washington--a popular Black mayor who worked to unite support from all races--would be involved with...
...York gears up for its mayoral election, the race is splitting along the same racial lines. Democratic Mayor Ed Koch is seeking his fourth term, but has been criticized by Blacks for being racially insensitive, particularly after he criticized Jackson before the primaries...
Wielding considerably more authority than the city council, the board votes on the budget and controls such matters as zoning, municipal contracts, and water and sewer rates. Three elected officials (the mayor, comptroller and city-council president) and the president of each of the city's five boroughs sit on the panel. But the boroughs have widely varying populations. The member representing Staten Island's 377,600 residents has the same voting power as the one representing the 2,309,600 people of Brooklyn, the most populous borough...
...still in use, the county's economy is no longer primarily agricultural. Clay County benefited during the 1950s and '60s from the arrival of manufacturing companies that produced such goods as metalworking equipment and grain-handling machinery. But in the past decade almost 300 jobs have disappeared. Says Mayor Bisenius: "In the past few years we have realized that we cannot exist as a town without something new coming...
Those gains came at the expense of the center-right coalition of the Christian Democratic Union and the Free Democratic Party, which has held national power for the past six years. The Christian Democrats now control the mayor's office in only one of West Germany's major cities, Stuttgart. And in both West Berlin and Frankfurt, the Free Democrats failed to receive the 5% of the vote needed to gain representation in the local councils, a disturbing omen for a small swing party that seldom polls more than 10% anywhere...