Sentences with phrase «first mayor of the city»

Syracuse independent mayoral candidate Ben Walsh won big Tuesday night and will be the first mayor of the city not affiliated with a political party.

Gerald Donovan became the first mayor of the city.

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With 47.7 % of its population of non-Dutch origin, Rotterdam is proud of its multiethnic makeup, and in 2009 it further cemented its multicultral status after Ahmed Aboutaleb became the first Muslim mayor of a major Dutch city.

The first the mayor of Santa Monica heard of Bird's scooters was when VanderZanden sent him a message on LinkedIn after the company launched, The Washington Post previously reported, and the city has since filed a criminal complaint against the startup over its failure to obtain a permit.

Wilmot Collins, 54, made history this year when he became the first black person to be elected mayor of a city in Montana.

Bloomberg maintained high approval ratings for nearly all of his 12 years as New York City's mayor (2002 - 14), winning his first reelection by a 20 - point margin, the largest ever for a Republican in the heavily Democratic cCity's mayor (2002 - 14), winning his first reelection by a 20 - point margin, the largest ever for a Republican in the heavily Democratic citycity.

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We met with Vera Baboun, the newly elected and first - ever female mayor of Bethlehem, a small city in the West Bank.

The Brooklyn - based group has coordinated the lighting ceremony since it began in 1977, then coinciding with the administration of Abraham David Beam, the first Jewish mayor of New York City.

Shortly after the vandalism, the city elected its first Haredi mayor, who ran on a platform of moderation, insisting that a temperate, Sephardic Haredi rabbi could and would serve all constituencies equally.

I first became aware of this concept in The Good city and the Good Life, written by former Missoula mayor Daniel Kemmis.

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.»

A new political dawn in the land of the meatball has brought with it a culinary awakening, with news that the new mayor of Turin wants it to become the first vegetarian city in Italy.

The first call for former Rep. Anthony Weiner to withdraw from the New York City mayor's race following his acknowledgement of another round of explicit on - line messages and photos comes from one of his Democratic primary opponents, Sal Albanese, who released the following statement:

If elected, James would be the first black woman mayor of New York City.

Ms. Quinn's poll numbers have been falling, though, as she pursues her dream of becoming the city's first female and first openly gay mayor.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who oversaw the city's emergence from bankruptcy, easily won re-election, defeating fellow Democrat Coleman A. Young II, a state senator and the son of the city's first African - American mayor.

The former owner of what was once labeled the city's loudest watering hole will be the city's first so - called «night mayor.»

The winner of the Nov. 3 general election will replace Councilman Tony Avella (D - Bayside), who was first elected in 2001 and opted to run in the Democratic primary for mayor against city Comptroller William Thompson, who defeated him.

New York City has appointed its first mayor for «nightlife» as part of de Blasio's effort to stoke the after - dark industry in the city that never sleCity has appointed its first mayor for «nightlife» as part of de Blasio's effort to stoke the after - dark industry in the city that never slecity that never sleeps.

The mayor is hardly the first Democrat this year to criticize Cuomo, who has been knocked by state lawmakers and city council members for the better part of the year following his re-election last November.

Cities are going to be the first line of defense against a Trump Administration and his radical right - wing agenda, and I am thankful that we have a mayor who has pledged to use the tools at his disposal to protect the values that make New York City great.

The mayor has achieved his «first 100 days» objectives, and has already raised the national profile of his city region

Richard Blakeway, deputy mayor for housing, land and property, said London was one of the first cities to set professional standards for its rented sector.

The unsung bureaucrat who makes City Hall go around, Mr. Shorris is the man who does the day - to - day managing of the city as its first deputy maCity Hall go around, Mr. Shorris is the man who does the day - to - day managing of the city as its first deputy macity as its first deputy mayor.

In fiscal 2015, the first full budget year for the new mayor, the deficit was put at $ 1.7 billion, or 3.1 percent of expected city revenues of $ 72 billion.

The first metro mayor for Liverpool City Region will be taking on strategic powers over an area which has many of the amenities and much of the physical infrastructure that makes it primed for growth.

Turnout was low - just 26.1 % of voters cast a ballot to choose the first Liverpool City Region metro mayor, while 28.93 % turned out for the contest in Greater Manchester.

In his State of the City speech — the first by a City Comptroller in recent memory — Liu, who is widely expected to run for mayor despite being the subject of a federal investigation, jumped on the «Lin - sanity» bandwagon.

Sources tell NY1 that Nixon is consulting veteran campaign operatives Rebecca Katz and Bill Hyers, both of whom successfully ran Bill de Blasio's first campaign for New York City mayor in 2013.

Schroeder: First of all, I have a professional, cordial relationship with the mayor of the City of Buffalo.

De Blasio also noted the significance of being the first Democrat to win re-election as mayor of New York City since Ed Koch — who served from 1978 to 1989 and was last reelected 32 years ago.

Bill de Blasio will be the first Democrat in two decades to serve as the 109th mayor of New York City, after having defeated Republican...

In 2014, Bill de Blasio was one of the first mayors of a major city to come out strongly against fracking.

BY PAULINE PARK Christine Quinn would have been the first woman and the first member of the LGBT community elected mayor of New York City had she won this year's mayoral race.

The 1,500 pages of redacted emails, dumped to the press the night before Thanksgiving, show one of the mayor's closest advisers, Jonathan Rosen of the Berlin Rosen public relations firm, weighing in on everything from the mayor's universal pre-K plans to recommending people for city jobs and trying to get First Lady Chirlane McCray to speak at galas for his clients.

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Despite her earlier career as a «radical» on the far left of city politics, first as a campaign manager for Council member Tom Duane and then later a Council member herself, Quinn has emerged as the real estate community's favorite for mayor, besting Comptroller John Liu and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, co-sponsors of a rent control bill that has plagued the industry.

The mayor warned that Trump's push to block Washington dollars from reaching cities offering haven to undocumented immigrants would «first and foremost fall on the NYPD» — slashing more than $ 150 million a year from the police department's budget, most of it counter-terrorism funding.

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.

Last year, the program was instituted in middle schools, where all students are now provided lunch at no charge, but the mayor said that the results of the program were underwhelming and that instead of expanding it to elementary and / or high schools, the city would first look to do more outreach around the middle school offering and see if there is a noted improvement in year two.

Avella, first elected to the Council in 2001, was defeated in the Democratic primary for mayor by city Comptroller William Thompson, who captured 70 percent of the vote.

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.

Dennis Walcott spent his first day as chancellor - designee on a City Council hot seat on April 8, as members of the Education Committee grilled him on the mayor's plan to lay off thousands of teachers.

James Capalino's eponymous firm surpassed Kasirer as the city's top lobbyist in 2014, Bill de Blasio's first year as mayor, and the common assumption was that its revenues rose because of its chief's ties with the mayor.

This is coming with some missteps, including the new Rolling Stone interview in which the mayor seems to slag his predecessors and his constituents («A lot of people outside New York City understand what happened in the first year of New York City better than people in New York City»).

First on the governors agenda is the extension of the New York City mayor's control over the city's school sysCity mayor's control over the city's school syscity's school system.

Quinn has not formally announced her candidacy for mayor, but would become the first woman Mayor of New York City if she won.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Two former associates of a candidate seeking to become the city's first Asian - American mayor were convicted Thursday in a scheme to illegally raise campaign funds.

WEST BRIGHTON — More than three years into his first term as mayor, Bill de Blasio will host his second Staten Island town hall April 13 as part of his week spent working remotely in the borough, a City Hall spokeswoman said.