Sentences with phrase «time aldermen»

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At a time when Mayor Richard Daley and Chicago's 50 aldermen are collecting annual pay increases, Daley has no business asking rank - and - file city workers to take unpaid furlough days to help balance the city's budget, a labor leader said Tuesday.

Aldermen had the luxury of time, a factor now figured into the county reapportionment process after the next census.

His son, Richard Jr., is a former alderman and two - time candidate for mayor.

Owing to a series of timing tweaks over the years — instituted by parochial aldermen — the city's main thoroughfare is little more than a series of stops and starts between red lights while the occasional vehicle enters or crosses over from lightly traveled side streets.

«We couldn't believe it,» alderman - at - large and future mayor Jim Sottile told me at the time.

Only aldermen Tom Hoffay and Deb Brown — Hoffay has attended every one and gave the most recent lecture this month, with Brown attending for the first time — have shown up at all.

Correct me if I'm right, as a former Kingston alderman used to say, but I don't think a single budget was passed on time during his 12 years in office.

Kingston's mayorally - appointed board met a few times over a period of months recently to address a conflict of interest involving a former alderman so blatant as to be obvious even to casual observers.

In 2011, the one - time Ward 6 alderman pulled off an upset victory over party favorite Andi Turco - Levin in the GOP mayoral primary before going on to getting trounced by Gallo in the general election.

For many years Brandyn's career focused on community building, including positions as Director of the Central West End Neighborhood Association and Aide to President of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen at that time, James Shrewsbury.

Apparently this all came about after one alderman had a tough time canceling his son's Final Fantasy XI account and took it up with the House.

The father of Jan Poppen, Jacob Poppen, had been alderman and three times mayor of the city of Amsterdam.