Adrienne Adams, the first Black leader of the New York City Council, said on Wednesday that she would join the already crowded race for mayor with less than four months before the June primary. She is hoping to position herself as a principled and scandal-free alternative to the incumbent, Eric Adams, and the race’s presumptive … Read more
For months, the race for mayor of New York City has felt stuck in suspended animation. No more. The contest burst into motion on Sunday as a new front-runner, former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, began a high-stakes comeback campaign in Lower Manhattan, and Mayor Eric Adams and seven fellow Democrats fanned out across the city … Read more
The speech by Mayor Eric Adams of New York City, in the closing week of Black History Month, seemed to be hitting all the right historical notes. He outlined the lineage tying together Nat Turner, Marcus Garvey, Rosa Parks and Barack Obama and connected the dots between David Dinkins, the city’s first Black mayor, and … Read more
On the 39th floor of a Midtown Manhattan high-rise, Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday presided over a series of meetings to discuss one of the most consequential decisions of her tenure: whether to remove Mayor Eric Adams from office. She solicited opinions from Brad Lander, the city comptroller, and Adrienne Adams, the City Council speaker. … Read more
When the Justice Department ordered federal prosecutors on Monday to drop the corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York City, he hoped that it would save his political career and allow him to better focus on governing the nation’s largest city. Instead, the mayor is in even more peril, his political future is … Read more
Sheng Thao, who was ousted as the mayor of Oakland, Calif., just two months ago amid persistent frustrations with crime, has been indicted on federal corruption charges, prosecutors announced on Friday. Ms. Thao is among four people being charged. The federal indictment also names Ms. Thao’s boyfriend, Andre Jones; the head of a local waste … Read more
Repeated requests to join meetings in early 2020 were refused, London and Greater Manchester mayors say. Source link
The Gujarat BJP on Monday appointed new Mayors and other office-bearers to the Ahmedabad and Vadodara Municipal Corporations on completion of their tenure of two-and-a-half years. The party has decided to adopt a “no repeat” formula to replace the incumbents with new faces in a bid to promote other leaders in the civic bodies and … Read more
CNN — A Syrian who arrived in Germany as a refugee in 2015 has won a mayoral election in the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg. Ryyan Alshebl, who left his hometown of As Suwayda in Syria eight years ago, ran as an independent in the municipality of Ostelsheim. He won 55.41% of the votes on … Read more