Showing posts with label mayors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mayors. Show all posts
Sunday, May 31, 2020

Bourbonism can't help us. Neoliberal frauds be gone. Greg Fischer is clothesless, and he should resign, now.

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Wednesday, January 22, 2020

A survey of America's mayors finds that many "aren’t eager to challenge the status quo."

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"If they don’t adjust their priorities to match the urgency of the crises they’ve identified, mayors might have no one to blame for s...
Saturday, September 14, 2019

Scammers, fraudsters, and the task of "Un-Corrupting City Hall."

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This long read helpfully explains why New Albany's Ethics Commission was stillborn. Un-Corrupting City Hall , by Ethan McLeod ( CityL...
Monday, July 01, 2019

Yep, "A Police Shooting Gives the Lie to Buttigieg’s Campaign Narrative."

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If Joe Biden can be VP, there's nothing stopping Mayor Pete -- except that if the Democrats nominate the sort of candidate likely to ...
Thursday, March 08, 2018

If you live OUTSIDE New Albany, this trend should enthuse you: "Is Mayor a Dead End Job?"

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Deaf Gahan may be agoraphobic, but he's also ambitious, and for a while the rumor mill emitted regular signals that he'd seek highe...
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

"Revitalized into oblivion": An astoundingly synonymous cautionary tale about Gah ... sorry, I mean Stephen Reed, former mayor of Harrisburg PA.

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Last September, the Confidentials drove through Harrisburg, capital of Pennsylvania. We were road-tripping from Massachusetts to Maryland...
Monday, January 23, 2017

As Deaf Gahan hunkers in the bunker, America’s small-town mayors are speaking out -- about their communities, about Donald Trump, about SOMETHING.

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Here's what we've gotten so far from Jeff Gahan, mayor and de facto kingpin of the Floyd County Democratic Party, or at least u...
Wednesday, June 22, 2016

"How do we solve all those issues if we have a rural mentality where things are static?"

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Search this page at City Lab for the word "parks," and you won't find it. Yes, Charlotte is a much larger city than ours, but...
Sunday, June 19, 2016

Caesar baffled and inconsolable as "anti-establishment" candidate leads the mayoral race in Rome.

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Caesar said “establishment politics is different than anti-establishment politics." He said when people have several choices to make...
Saturday, June 06, 2015

Your Saturday Radical 3: Bernie Sanders and progressive municipal policies.

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Pragmatism, grassroots, collaboration and livability. Who's the radical, again? There's this ... What Kind of Mayor Was Berni...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

"Cities across the country have been electing mayors who understand one of the keys to growing a city is having equitable transportation policies that work for all people."

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As JeffG pithily notes: From Pittsburgh we get "We're reworking the whole place". From far smaller and easier New Albany we...