Mayor Relents, Forgiving Tickets on Iced-In Cars
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg apologized and promised to waive parking tickets issued to snowbound cars.
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NEWARK, New Jersey  - The former mayor of Newark, New Jersey's largest city, and a companion pleaded not guilty on Monday to a host of federal charges including suspicion of taking lavish vacations with city money.
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Mayor Bloomberg announced that the number of city-issued parking placards to city employees will be reduced by at least 20 percent. New steps will be taken to reduce misuse of the permits.
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg all but concedes defeat on his plan to introduce a congestion charge.
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Mayor John F. Street is getting more than $111,000 as he leaves office, money that a city official said comes from pay raises that he was entitled to but did not take.
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Mayor Anthony Williams (website - news - bio) says the city has returned to a bad habit of not honoring its commitments. He says he made the agreement with the council and baseball to cut this deal.
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Here's something usually missing in the final stretch of a hot sheriff's race: a candidate who admits he has fixed tickets for friends of fellow officers.
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New York City, where tolls are $6 and putting your car in a parking garage for just an hour can run you $20, is already an expensive place to drive. Now the mayor wants to make it so costly some people won't even bother driving and will take mass transit instead.
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Mayor Adrian M. Fenty announced yesterday that he will require time-and-distance meters in the District's 6,000 taxicabs, abandoning a rare zone system that has been used for decades and heralding major changes in the way the local taxi industry operates.
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It's not out of the question, analysts say. His money and track record as mayor could help.
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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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Veteran TV newsman Mike Wallace  received an apology from the New York taxi commission over his  arrest for disorderly conduct earlier this month after an  argument with inspectors, officials said on Friday.
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The mayor reiterated his call for a carbon tax in the United States, suggested that congestion pricing could be a model for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. And he managed to throw in a boast about the city's 311 line.
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A judge reinstated criminal charges Wednesday against a small-town mayor who got in trouble for marrying a series of gay couples last year.
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By Mark Fagan, Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan.  Feb. 22--Sweeping out the garage is a drag. Avoiding potholes is aggravating. Parking alongside a pile of long-since-cleared snow -- now a heap of soiled, black ice -- at the grocery store is far from appetizing.
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TORONTO -- The mayors of Canada&#39;s biggest cities are telling Ottawa to step on the gas when it comes to delivering the fuel tax back to cities.
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NEW YORK - The city is showing no mercy to a priest who got a $115 ticket for parking in an ambulance zone while ministering to an ailing hospital patient.  Two months after ticketing the Rev. Cletus Forson of St. Andrew the Apostle Church in Brooklyn, the city has thrown out his appeal.