Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have not seen an official vote of hers that has been anti-rent control," said Cavellini. "But she has made speeches in the Council, similar to [Mayor Alfred E.] Vellucci, that show signs of wavering. People worry because they see little signs...
When Washington Mayor Marion Barry handed a golden key to Kimi Gray last week, an unprecedented transaction was at hand: tenants of a once run-down public- housing complex were about to buy the property. Gray had been fighting for this moment since 1981, when she decided that the Kenilworth projects' 464 apartments needed tenant management. Gray organized and inspired the tenants, got them to keep their kids in school and hunt for jobs. By 1986, rent receipts were up 77%; Gray says welfare dependency, once as high as 85%, is down...
...concern in the gobbledygook of all these regulations is that we do not forget that there is a purpose to the parking freeze" said Vice-Mayor Alice K. Wolf. She added that the EPA regulation exists for reasons of "environmental protection and the health and safety of residents...
Councillors Walter Sullivan, Thomas W. Danehy, Sheila T. Russell, William H. Walsh, and Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci supported the resolution...
Inevitably, many hardy souls who work in the nuclear plants or whose communities rely heavily on the income they bring scoff at what they consider the alarmist fears being raised. Charges John Poynor, mayor of Richland, the closest town to the vast Hanford spread: "The types of people who are critical of Hanford and other nuclear reactors don't like anything except whales. I'd ship them all off to Alaska and let them rescue those three whales that are stuck...