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Potential Candidates To Succeed Mayor Daley As Mayor Daley rocked the political establishment on Tuesday by announcing that we won’t seek a seventh term, several potential candidates have been flirting with the idea of running for mayor in recent months, notably among them White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. In April, Emanuel told Charlie Rose on PBS that if Daley did not run, “One day I would like to run for mayor of the city of Chicago. That’s always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.”

Chicago mayor Richard Daley (D.), who has served in that office since 1989, has announced that he will not run for re-election, saying it is “time to move on.” Next stop: Mayor Emanuel?

For a political hopeful in Alabama, it could be the ultimate endorsement -- a show of support from University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban. Bessemer Councilwoman Dorothy Davidson, who is running for mayor of the city, claims she secured Saban's endorsement of her campaign three weeks ago. Davidson printed it on a color campaign flier that shows her and the coach smiling side by side on a golf course. (snip)

MONTERREY Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican security forces found the body of a slain mayor near Mexico's affluent city of Monterrey on Wednesday, days after he was abducted by drug hitmen, officials and local media said. Mexican President Felipe Calderon, in a posting on his Twitter account, said he was sorry about the "cowardly assassination" of Mayor Edelmiro Cavazos, the mayor of a popular tourist town on the outskirts of Monterrey, a major industrial center with close U.S. business links. "The murder of Edelmiro is an outrage and forces us to redouble our efforts to fight these cowardly criminals," Calderon wrote....

TRENTON — New city Mayor Tony Mack and his wife Kara face foreclosure on their Berkeley Avenue home at a sale on Wednesday, Aug. 25, ordered Mercer County Sheriff Kevin C. Larkin in public notices published yesterday. The mayor wouldn’t say how many months he is behind or how much he owes in mortgage payments.

LAWRENCE — A former city parking clerk, who faced larceny charges, has filed a discrimination complaint against Mayor William Lantigua alleging he will not rehire her because she is not Hispanic. Ann Anzalone, 52, of Salem, N.H., filed a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination claiming that Lantigua has "hired only Hispanics for clerical positions throughout City Hall and other departments outside of City Hall."

Corinne Peters’ high school years were filled with plenty of the light-hearted rituals and endearing goofs typical of a teenager. But the young woman also had to deal with something most teenagers don’t experience: grief. Those closest to the only child say she never fully recovered after her father died from cancer when she was 16. Yet friends still knew her as fun-loving and extraordinarily compassionate. Signs of accomplishment and progress — and the appearance that she was finally getting what she wanted out of life — shot up as she walked across a stage in a red graduation robe...

As reported here, Huntington Indiana has the ability to open a closed fire station and bring back to work 6 laid off fire fighters. The fire fighters were laid off last year because of a major budget shortfall for the city. This closed the east end fire station, the only fire station between downtown Huntington and the town of Roanoke. Near the closed fire station are factories, a natural gas bulk plant and a petroleum bulk plant. This closed fire station was the closest line of security for these businesses.

Descending via u-haul from the gorgeous Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina to live in this one-story ghetto some call Los Angeles was supposed to be only a three-year crisis of middle age, not eight and counting. And so here we are and we do try to make the best of things with some of the unique events only a Hollywood can offer. As a matter of fact, just a few weeks ago my life peaked at the American Cinematheque after exchanging a few words with Pam Grier (male heterosexuals will want to click that link) before a big screen...

Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums doesn't seem to do much on the job these days -- but he went into meltdown Monday when veteran KTVU political reporter Randy Shandobil had the temerity to ask why he's been missing in action as one of the most crime-challenged cities in the nation faces a devastating layoff of a quarter of its police force."Who the (blank) are you to decide what my role is?" a raging Dellums told Shandobil in a phone call Monday, after the Oakland-based reporter showed up at City Hall to ask why Dellums has been seen at high profile boxing...

Boris Johnson and Lord Tebbit have hit out at Barack Obama’s anti-BP rhetoric, adding to pressure on David Cameron to intervene. The Prime Minister is facing growing calls to defend the British-based multinational against increasingly outspoken attacks by the U.S. President over the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The London Mayor said BP was paying 'a very,very heavy price' for what had been an accident, and pointed out that UK pension funds had a 'huge exposure' to BP. And Lord Tebbit, a former trade and industry secretary, suggested the U.S. President was attacking BP to distract from his...

America’s gun-control proponents might want to consider shooting (pun intended) this memo to Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. “Dear Mayor Daley: Please shut up. You ain’t helping us.” Is there anyone doing more damage for advocates of gun control than Daley? The man is a walking billboard for right-to-carry laws. Anyone needing proof of that might want to read the statements he made in the wake of an 80-year-old Chicago man fatally shooting a career criminal who invaded his home. The background story goes like this: The elderly man is a Korean War veteran who bought a handgun after three...

Former Huntington mayor, Terry Abbett, wants his old job back. In an interview with a local television station Mr. Abbett said that he has looked at the city's finances and knows where to make cuts without layoffs.

Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, who opposes his state's controversial new immigration law, blames the Regan-era Federal Communicastions Commission, at least in part, for the law's passage. In a Center For American Progress forum May 14, Gordon said the seeds of the law go back to 1987, when the FCC scrapped the fairness doctrine as unconstitutional. "I think it goes back to the Reagan era when the fairness doctrine was dropped," he said, "and instead of rquiring both sides of a debate to be aired, only one side was given the chance depending on who was providing that." He said that...

WASHINGTON - Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon told an audience in Washington on Friday that his goal is to get Arizona's new law cracking down on illegal immigration "revoked as soon as possible."

He developed a national reputation as a vocal critic of George W. Bush, accusing Bush of leading the country into an "illegal" war in Iraq. But avowed Democrat, and former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson, did not hold back on President Obama's conduct during a 2News interview aired Sunday night. "We have tyranny by the executive branch," said Anderson. Asked if President Obama is part of that tyranny, Anderson responded, "There's no question that we're seeing a continuation, and even in some instances a worsening of our republic under this administration. "The Obama Administration has contended that no documents...

Huntington Indiana's trash has been piling up and causing odor and animal problems since Mayor Steve Updike changed the pick-up schedule to the second and last weeks of the month. But after consideration, has changed the schedule back to three days a week. The original change was because of massive deficit problems by the city. Over the last year, Huntington officials found the city in a huge monetary hole because of property tax appeals. The mayor cut personnel and services, attempting to alleviate the problem. He had made cuts to the total of over 600,000 dollars to try and cover...

WASHINGTON -- As I read the news about this Pakistani jackal who admits to planning a cowardly assault on hundreds of innocent people in New York's Times Square, a thought that occurs to me is, how endlessly interesting history is. Often things take place that one never would have imagined. For most of the last decades of the 20th century, America girded its loins to defeat world communism, at the time led by the Soviets and the Chinese. We lived in fear of nuclear holocaust. We feared Soviet domination. Once our partners in thwarting Nazi domination of the West, the...

L.A. Teetering on Bankruptcy, Former Mayor Says Wednesday, 05 May 2010 02:20 PM By: Dan Weil California’s finances have deteriorated rapidly since the beginning of the financial meltdown in 2007, and now it’s really getting bad. “Los Angeles is facing a terminal fiscal crisis: between now and 2014 the city will likely declare bankruptcy,” former mayor Richard Riordan wrote in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece. “Yet Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the City Council have been either unable or unwilling to face this fact.” Riordan’s column was co-authored by Alexander Rubalcava of Rubalcava Capital Management. The basic problem: pension and...

By Brenda Gazzar, Staff Writer Posted: 05/02/2010 09:03:46 PM PDT SIERRA MADRE - Joe Mosca might be the San Gabriel Valley's first openly gay mayor, but that's something he takes in stride. It's not that the new mayor of Sierra Madre isn't grateful for the progress that the gay, lesbian and bisexual community has made over the years; he just doesn't consider the distinction to be a big deal. "It does take you by surprise because the fact is you don't see yourself as any different than anyone else and what you have as different than anybody else," said Mosca...