Dallas chooses businessman as next mayor
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Choosing a wealthy retired businessman over an openly gay city councilman, voters elected Tom Leppert as Dallas mayor Saturday by a wide margin.
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By Dave Levinthal, The Dallas Morning News  Feb. 21--As city of Dallas staff members explained to City Council members Tuesday how a proposed Trinity River Corridor toll road realignment would decrease nearby parkland, council member Angela Hunt sat seething.
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President Bush on Monday chose  Carlos Gutierrez, the Cuban-born CEO of Kellogg Co K.N, as  his nominee to be commerce secretary, his second selection of a  Hispanic for a second-term Cabinet.
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Pitcairn Island selects its first woman mayor in its 214-year history after its former mayor - a convicted rapist - was sacked last week.
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DALLAS The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas today named a longtime banker and former federal trade official as its new president. Richard Fisher is a current business associate of former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
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On Monday, the mayor made the latest in a series of proposals intended to help the city cope in an environmentally sound way with the one million new residents expected by 2030.
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By John Moritz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 2--AUSTIN -- Gov.
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Despite a City Hall corruption scandal, Mayor Richard M. Daley sought a sixth term Tuesday in a re-election campaign that could put him on course to eclipse his legendary father and become the city's longest-serving mayor.
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THE REGION President Bush is nominating a Boston-area businessman as ambassador to Saudi Arabia. If confirmed by the Senate, Ford M. Fraker, 58, of Belmont, will succeed James C. Oberwetter. A Harvard University graduate, Fraker is a consultant to Intercontinental Real Estate Corp., a Boston real estate investment and management firm. A firm he established, Fraker &amp; Co. , raised ...
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Rep. Robert Brady, a Pennsylvania Democrat, became the new "Mayor of the Capitol" yesterday, after Speaker Nancy Pelosi tapped him to chair the House Administration Committee.
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Robert C. Lieber, the president of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, will be the deputy mayor for economic development. Edward Skyler, the deputy mayor for administration, will now also serve as deputy mayor for operations.
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By CATHLEEN F. CROWLEY  and GREGORY SMITH  Journal Staff Writers  This is another in a series of profiles of candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for Providence City Council in the Sept. 12 primary.   * * *   South Providence businessman Jose R.
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On Sept. 11, primary election voters of Salt Lake City will have an opportunity to choose between two candidates for the next Salt Lake mayor.
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg,  often mentioned as a possible third-party 2008 presidential  candidate, said on Tuesday he was changing his political status  to independent from Republican.
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A Twin Cities businessman who failed to become president in his native Croatia announced on Friday that he wants to become a mayor of Zagreb.
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Developer Prescott Realty Group announced that its Lake Highlands Town  Center project received both zoning and Tax Increment Financing (TIF)  approval from the Dallas City Council on Wednesday, June 13, 2007.
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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is growing increasingly enchanted with the idea of making an independent presidential bid.