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...economic windfall is estimated at about $150 million, said Peter Nagles, a spokesperson for Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino...
...race would have been drastically different had the Democratic Party supported Senator-Elect Coleman when he was one of their own. Coleman was elected and served as Mayor of St. Paul as a Democrat. He and other elected officials, such as Co-Chair of the House Pro-Life Caucus Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), left the Democratic Party because of the party’s rigid intolerance of opponents of abortion...
When the city council discussed the tunnel in early October, several councillors made it clear that their positions had not changed since last December. And Cambridge Mayor Michael A. Sullivan says he doesn’t know when or if the city council will finally bring the tunnel to a vote...
...DIED. ALFONSO MARTINEZ DOMINGUEZ, 80, former Mayor of Mexico City who was under investigation for alleged involvement in a 1971 student massacre; in Monterrey, Mexico...
...Recep Tayyip Erdogan should not even be in politics. In 1998, the charismatic former mayor of Istanbul was convicted under Turkey's religious-hate-speech statutes for reciting a poem that contained the lines: "Our minarets are our bayonets, our believers are our soldiers." He served four months in jail and was banned from public office for life. Yet last week the clean-cut populist was back. His pro-Islamic Justice and Development Party (AK) drubbed Turkey's secular old guard in the general election, amassing nearly two-thirds of the seats in parliament - albeit with only one-third...