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...change. In 2004, the European Union set up a four-year funding project to foster the shared-space ethic in seven towns across Europe, including Oostende in Belgium and Ipswich in England. Last September, work finally began on the transformation of Bohmte, a town in northwestern Germany. Although its mayor, Klaus Goedejohann, says he expects "an aesthetic improvement, a higher quality of life and a better traffic situation" when the signs come down, so far all he has to show are some large piles of sand. If it takes this long to implement such a small project - Bohmte's main...
...Mellone, who chairs the Harvard Allston Task Force—a mayor-appointed group of Allston residents—said he was optimistic about what Havard’s expansion would mean for his neighborhood...
...this is how it ends for America's Mayor, although he never quite said so in his Florida concession speech last night. He never said he's still a candidate for President either, and he probably would have mentioned that if he were. "I'm proud that we chose to remain positive," he told a sparse crowd of Orlando supporters after finishing a distant third behind John McCain and Mitt Romney. His use of the past tense made his status pretty clear. He said he's still heading to California tomorrow - "I've got my ticket...
...Perhaps the strangest thing about Rudy's collapse was the candidate himself. The rap on Rudy was always that he was a successful mayor but a nasty man; the critics never understood that his nastiness helped make him a successful mayor. He never spent much time worrying whether reporters or interest groups or The People loved him. ("If people like my personality, thank you," he fumed to a room full of reporters the first time I saw him in action. "If you don't, I really don't care.") He wanted a city that worked, and he pursued that goal...
...didn't discuss that... I'm for anything that encourages competition and a level playing field, so I would be inclined to help Mayor Bloomberg in order to increase competition and level the playing field for independent candidates...