Heseltine: cities need powerful elected mayors
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Britain's cities need directly-elected leaders with 'very substantial powers' to revive them, Lord Heseltine, the former cabinet minister, told the Tories today.
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Mayor Anthony A. Williams said Sunday his political career may depend on whether his plan to bring major league baseball to the capital wins city council approval in the next two weeks.
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Mayoral candidate Adrian M. Fenty and interim Metro head Dan Tangherlini announced today that Tangherlini will become the District's city administrator if Fenty is elected mayor and so Tangherlini withdrawing as a candidate to head Metro.
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By SCOTT VAN VOORHIS  Mayor Thomas M. Menino's may want to be a "green" mayor, but, boy, is his face red!  The mayor has been busy lately pledging to cut Boston's greenhouse emissions and talking up his vision for environmentally friendly skyscrapers.
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New York Gov. George Pataki implores businesses to relocate to lower Manhattan in a taxpayer-funded ad campaign. In Maryland, Gov. Robert Ehrlich pitches tourism, energy-efficient homes and the state motor vehicle administration.
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Looking beyond troubled Premier Romano Prodi, the Italian left is gambling that a mayor who loves the Kennedys, writes novels and campaigns to end poverty in Africa is the right man to boost its fortunes.
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Mayors from across the country called on the federal government on Wednesday to quickly create a stimulus package that includes home ownership and local economic assistance.
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Mayor Richard M. Daley announced Monday he will run for a sixth term, a move that could put him in office longer than his legendary father.
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London Underground contractor asks the mayor, Ken Livingstone, to appoint an administrator.
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By Jon Van, Chicago Tribune  Jun. 16--Chicago should undertake a communitywide campaign to become the nation's most advanced digital city, a mayor's advisory committee report urged Friday.
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I'm not sure what the current motto for Salt Lake City is, but I've got a new one. I can see it plastered all over the bumpers of every Salt Lake City vehicle, particularly the hybrids: "My Mayor can kick your Mayor's a--." Paul G.
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Candidates for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee talked Tuesday about the need to rebuild the party from the ground up as they pitched themselves to Democratic mayors.
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Mayor Richard M. Daley will be on course to eclipse his legendary father and become the city's longest-serving mayor if voters Tuesday give him a sixth term despite a City Hall corruption scandal.
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Canada&#39;s big-city mayors emerged from their two-day summit in Toronto on Saturday presenting a united front in their ongoing battle for a promised share of federal gas tax revenues.
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A mayor whose administration is under federal investigation. An alderman who just got hit with a federal bribery charge. Four politicians who served time for corruption and want their old jobs back.
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The appointment would put the mayor in a position to re-energize the memorial's fund-raising campaign.
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City managers and planners say traffic must be managed in a crowding world, but how do you have a prosperous city and not have it choke on its own wealth?