Word: mayors
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Under Cambridge's quirky political system, the nine councillors will chose from amongst themselves who will be the next mayor. At least five votes are needed to elect the mayor...
There are currently three councillors who are actively seeking the position: Francis H. Duehay '55; Sheila Doyle Russell, the current mayor; and Katherine Triantafillou...
Kathleen L. Born, who was contemplating running for mayor at first, said in a Cambridge Chronicle article that she would withdraw from the race to support Duehay...
...agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration raided a Bay Area cannabis club called Flower Therapy and seized 331 marijuana plants and growing equipment, charging that the club was distributing pot in quantities larger than what was needed by its ill customers. But the raid was denounced by San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and other city officials, and U.S. Attorney Mike Yamaguchi declined to file criminal charges. "It's maddening," seethes a federal agent, who works just four blocks away from Peron's Cannabis Cultivators Club. "You can see hundreds of people an hour coming out of that place. We think...
DIED. COLEMAN YOUNG, 79, feisty five-term mayor of Detroit from 1974 to 1993; of respiratory and heart problems; in Detroit. The ex-World War II Tuskegee Airman became one of the first black mayors of a major U.S. city. Blunt and upbeat, he integrated the police and fire departments and tried to spur development of the waterfront with construction of the huge Renaissance Center. The Motor City, however, continued its decline during his tenure, as its population shrank and crime remained high...