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Last month, the mayor's office unveiled a San Francisco start - up map, which pinpoints the addresses of about 650 start - ups within the city limits.

In between all the stories about drug use, police surveillance, and city councillors getting tackled by the mayor, there have been a few reports of otherwise innocent businesses getting swept up in the Ford scandal.

«There's a massive level of excitement about what it represents as a symbol of urban renewal, ambition for our city and recommitment to our downtown as the heart of it all,» says the 37 - year - old mayor.

But The Economist was more critical of Toronto's mayor and political gridlock, while Hudak complained about the city's high unemployment, which, while comparable to Montreal's, falls behind Canada's other major cities.

With Hartford on edge about the future of Aetna here, CVS Health Corp. chief executive Larry Merlo traveled to the city in January for high - profile meetings with the governor and the city's mayor.

On each poll, participants indicated whether they approved or disapproved of the job performance of President Barack Obama, their state governor, senators, representative and their mayor, if they lived in a city with more than about 10,000 residents.

On Tuesday, after hearing of complaints from citizens and city workers about religious diversity and inclusiveness, organizers of the German - inspired merchant fair decided to take down the word Christmas on the large signs outside City Hall — only to have the mayor reverse that decision yestercity workers about religious diversity and inclusiveness, organizers of the German - inspired merchant fair decided to take down the word Christmas on the large signs outside City Hall — only to have the mayor reverse that decision yesterCity Hall — only to have the mayor reverse that decision yesterday.

The second paragraph of the WSJ story states, «' I don't want to have a national debate about freedom of religion when my whole purpose was to defend a strong and wonderful and appropriate city ordinance,» said Ms. Parker, a Democrat and the city's first openly gay mayor.»

Newark mayor Cory Booker is going to get on the level of his city's struggling by going one week on food stamps only, spending about $ 29.87 on groceries (the average...

Cuomo has not yet formally proposed any electoral reforms in the wake of last week's back - to - back corruption scandals, but he has talked about the possibility of rescinding the Wilson - Pakula law following Democratic Sen. Malcolm Smith's arrest for allegeding trying to bribe his way onto the GOP line in the New York City mayor's race.

Whatever you think about the current elected mayor for Bristol, the role has certainly changed the way politics in the city works and has changed people's perceptions of the city to some extent — with greater visibility both within the city and externally — something Bristol has undoubtedly lacked in the past.

Asked Saturday about his feud with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Gov. Andrew Cuomo insisted to reporters he is taking a broader view of pushing mayors statewide to «do something.»

In the wake of the latest bombshell corruption scandal, which netted two New York City GOP officials from Queens and the Bronx, other party leaders were quick to volunteer that knew absolutely nothing about the scheme to essentially buy a GOP ballot line in the NYC mayor's race for Democratic Sen. Malcolm Smith.

New York City mayor Bill de Blasio, who is white, was less ambiguous about the role of race in the recent protests, and the «reality» of those perceptions.

Now, that intern reflects on why the mayor tried so hard to keep secret emails that turned out to be innocuous In November 2010, I was earning $ 300 a week for The Village Voice, blogging about unemployed actors who moonlit as bed bug exterminators and a city project to make biofuel out of toilet water.

A spatial plan allows the metro mayor to be bold and strategic about the future growth of the city region, making best use of the land available, especially within its city centres

Mayor Bill de Blasio, brushing off results of a poll conducted by a strategist who said he wants to find a candidate to unseat the mayor in next year's Democratic primary, asked Wednesday: What's not to like about New York City?

He had reportedly written to the city's lord mayor expressing concern about the Labour councillors» persecution of the Lib Dem.

The former mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani, reportedly made a tasteless jab at former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, joking to a crowd of GOP donors gathered at Donald Trump's Mar - a-Lago ballroom about her weight.

«I don't have enough sense of modern political history to fully analyze — I don't know enough honestly about the relationships between the particular governors and mayors,» Mr. de Blasio said at City Hall.

The mayor himself spoke for less than 10 minutes, and though his speech didn't include much in the way of actual policy — he wanted to keep it short for the benefit of those assembled in the cold — he did repeat his promise about making New York «the fairest big city in America.»

Halloran said five city workers, including two Department of Transportation and three Sanitation Department employees assigned to Queens, told him the day before that they were asked by supervisors «to take their time» plowing roads because the «mayor's office doesn't care about them.»

«There is consternation about the post-Bloomberg era, regardless of who is the future mayor,» said Kathryn Wylde, president of the Partnership for New York City, who moderated a forum with the presumptive candidates at a Crain's New York Business event.

MIDTOWN — The four Democrats vying to become the city's next mayor tried Wednesday to woo a reticent business community that remains deeply concerned about the future of New York without Michael Bloomberg at the helm.

Although advocates are pleased that de Blasio is on board with closing the complex, many have expressed serious concerns about handing the execution off to another mayor and saddling City Council members with a project that will likely draw demands of «not in my backyard» from their constituents.

The correspondence revealed that Jonathan Rosen — co-founder of the political consulting and lobbying firm BerlinRosen — had participated in meetings about the mayor's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing program, an initiative that overhauled the city's building regulations.

«This is about allowing the people of the city to allow who their next mayor is.

A veteran member of Mr. de Blasio's inner circle, Ms. Wolfe is the mayor's political fixer and his liaison to the groups outside City Hall with which he must work — the governor's office, unions, the City Council and just about everyone in Albany.

That constitutes less than 1 percent of the city's taxpayers, or about 32,000 people, according to the mayor's office, but its benefits to the community could be substantial.

Malliotakis sidestepped a question of whether she's concerned about the effect of Trump's words on Republican candidates here in New York City, saying that «every individual should be judged on what they say, what they propose, and not by anybody else in their party» and analogized having a mayor and governor who «don't see eye to eye» to her differences with President Trump.

The mayor's plan aims to reduce the city's inmate population to 5,000 detainees from its current size of about 9,400.

Harold M. Ickes, a longtime friend and mentor of Mayor Bill de Blasio, delivered about $ 13,000 in donations last week to the mayor's re-election campaign, on the day that one of his lobbying clients received the de Blasio administration's go - ahead to hold a lucrative music festival in New York City.

«When he ran for mayor in 2013, he talked about a tale of two cities,» Johnson said.

Albanese believes that one can claim to be a progressive all they want, but the mayoralty is not really about political philosophy or grand rhetoric, but about management of city government and services; in other words: being the pothole mayor.

Last week, in her first television interview since she jumped into the mayoral race, Malliotakis falsly claimed that rape in the city had risen 33 percent under Mayor Bill de Blasio, when in fact the increase was only about 4 percent between 2013, the last year of Mayor Bloomberg's final term, and 2016, de Blasio's third year as mayor.

He has said nothing about the historic election of the first Muslim mayor of a Western capital city, with the largest personal mandate of any UK politician in history.

A city - government blogger conjectured that Mateo's interest in courting the mayor was tied to the efforts of Mateo's wife, Stella, to establish a women - only livery service — and the couple sought information about licensing in March, according to the Taxi & Limousine Commission.

In Part 1 of his weekly «Mondays with the Mayor» interview on NY1, Mayor de Blasio talks to Errol Louis about the growing mainstream support for the legalization of marijuana in New York, and the mayor's plan to open safe injection centers in the city.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's lead over City Councilman Tony Avella (D - Bayside) and city Comptroller William Thompson in the bid for the city's highest office has slimmed, although many city and Queens residents said they still do not know much about either of the mayor's challengers, according to a new Quinnipiac pCity Councilman Tony Avella (D - Bayside) and city Comptroller William Thompson in the bid for the city's highest office has slimmed, although many city and Queens residents said they still do not know much about either of the mayor's challengers, according to a new Quinnipiac pcity Comptroller William Thompson in the bid for the city's highest office has slimmed, although many city and Queens residents said they still do not know much about either of the mayor's challengers, according to a new Quinnipiac pcity's highest office has slimmed, although many city and Queens residents said they still do not know much about either of the mayor's challengers, according to a new Quinnipiac pcity and Queens residents said they still do not know much about either of the mayor's challengers, according to a new Quinnipiac poll.

State senators in favor of this bill made a three - pronged argument: property taxes have become too burdensome for middle - class homeowners; the property tax caps for municipalities outside the city have been — according to Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan — «a tremendous success,» as well as a job creator; and that the city had benefitted so much from uncapped property tax collections that the mayor shouldn't be surprised about the governor's proposal to shift Medicaid cost to the city.

It was an exchange typical over the course of the night for exposing how little potential candidates for mayor actually know about policies that will have lasting effects for one of the city's most important growth industries.

«This is about the person who could best take us to the next level,» the mayor said, pointing to O'Neill's 33 years of experience as a cop in New York City, and his role in implementing the mayor's strategies to improve police - community relations.

If the mayor and city council approve a deal with COR, the company will pay about $ 2.8 million for 28 acres of former state land around the harbor to erect apartment buildings, a satellite college campus, a hotel, office buildings, townhouses, shops and more.

«We wanted to have a very early, very muscular operation, to begin to communicate with the people of New York about the mayor's record and where he wants to take the city in the next four years,» says Phil Walzak, a key mayoral adviser who shifted from City Hall to the reelection campaign in Octocity in the next four years,» says Phil Walzak, a key mayoral adviser who shifted from City Hall to the reelection campaign in OctoCity Hall to the reelection campaign in October.

Questions during the off topic portion of the press Q&A included the NYPD's proposed expansion of it's use of tasers, a fine levied by the Campaign Finance Board against de Blasio ally and pro-carriage horse ban advocate NYCLASS, de Blasio's recent comments on the City's long drop in crime being attributable to former mayor David Dinkins and former city council speaker Peter Vallone Sr., a city council proposal to allow filing in City Council district offices of NYPD - related complaints with the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the proposed bill which would ban carriage horses and resulting loss of jobs, an attempt by a staff member of the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor to goad the mayor into agreeing to appear on that show, a possible tax on non-resident apartment owners, the mayor's planned meeting tonight with Jewish community leaders in Crown Heights and whether the mayor has concerns about the «secrecy» of the NYPD's disciplinary procCity's long drop in crime being attributable to former mayor David Dinkins and former city council speaker Peter Vallone Sr., a city council proposal to allow filing in City Council district offices of NYPD - related complaints with the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the proposed bill which would ban carriage horses and resulting loss of jobs, an attempt by a staff member of the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor to goad the mayor into agreeing to appear on that show, a possible tax on non-resident apartment owners, the mayor's planned meeting tonight with Jewish community leaders in Crown Heights and whether the mayor has concerns about the «secrecy» of the NYPD's disciplinary proccity council speaker Peter Vallone Sr., a city council proposal to allow filing in City Council district offices of NYPD - related complaints with the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the proposed bill which would ban carriage horses and resulting loss of jobs, an attempt by a staff member of the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor to goad the mayor into agreeing to appear on that show, a possible tax on non-resident apartment owners, the mayor's planned meeting tonight with Jewish community leaders in Crown Heights and whether the mayor has concerns about the «secrecy» of the NYPD's disciplinary proccity council proposal to allow filing in City Council district offices of NYPD - related complaints with the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the proposed bill which would ban carriage horses and resulting loss of jobs, an attempt by a staff member of the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor to goad the mayor into agreeing to appear on that show, a possible tax on non-resident apartment owners, the mayor's planned meeting tonight with Jewish community leaders in Crown Heights and whether the mayor has concerns about the «secrecy» of the NYPD's disciplinary procCity Council district offices of NYPD - related complaints with the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the proposed bill which would ban carriage horses and resulting loss of jobs, an attempt by a staff member of the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor to goad the mayor into agreeing to appear on that show, a possible tax on non-resident apartment owners, the mayor's planned meeting tonight with Jewish community leaders in Crown Heights and whether the mayor has concerns about the «secrecy» of the NYPD's disciplinary process.

The conflict between the City of Syracuse and Onondaga County over tax abatements for the development of the Inner Harbor of the city has raised questions about the working relationship between the mayor and the county executCity of Syracuse and Onondaga County over tax abatements for the development of the Inner Harbor of the city has raised questions about the working relationship between the mayor and the county executcity has raised questions about the working relationship between the mayor and the county executive.

The mayor raised the issue of the $ 15.2 billion MTA capital budget deficit and the state's failure to abide by a 2007 settlement that promised additional education funds to the city — saying arguments about lean economic times no longer hold water.

The borough president said they discussed the mayor's upcoming State of the City address and the open house Oddo held on Sunday for the public to learn about his office's initiatives.

The mayor faced several questions about the city's near - record level of homelessness and his administration's response.

As mayor of one of the snowiest cities in America, Miner has the credentials to complain about crumbling infrastructure; how cold, snowy conditions can crack water pipes and create craters in roads.