Why Mayors Are So Unpopular
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Google-News-Wire
- January 13, 2023
- American cities
- American politics
- approval rating
- approval ratings
- average mayor
- best perches
- big cities
- big-city executives.Yet
- big-city mayors
- Boston University
- Chicago’s mayor
- city
- city executives
- city leadership
- city residents
- cityThe Anna Karenina principle
- crime rates
- D.C.
- early phase of the coronavirus pandemic
- Eric Adams’s approval rating
- Eric Garcetti
- frequency of long tenures
- housing costs
- housing prices
- Katherine Levine Einstein
- Limited funding
- local businesses
- local leaders
- London Breed’s performance
- Lori Lightfoot
- majority of city voters
- most triumphant message
- national trends
- new orleans
- New York
- number of mayors
- political scientist
- property values
- property-tax revenues
- public dissatisfaction
- public-health disaster
- public-transit systems of funds
- quarter of San Francisco residents
- respective states
- San Francisco
- Small businesses
- Successive months of increasing homicides
- term-limited
- Urban life
- well-liked mayors
“I’m not going to sit here and tell you we did everything perfectly. We haven’t,” Lori Lightfoot, Chicago’s mayor, says in a campaign ad released late last year. “But we’ve tried our darndest to make sure we got it right, and when we haven’t—you pick yourself up and you listen and you’re humble and you […]
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Personal Arguments Causing Hartford Homicides to Climb to Record Numbers: Mayor – NBC Connecticut
With six weeks left in the year, Hartford has already hit a grim milestone: 36 homicides so far in 2022. The only time the city had thirty or more homicides was in 2003 and 2015. “She was fun, liked to laugh. Everybody knew her,” said Diazsha Heaven, describing her sister Jayla. “Yeah, she was just […]
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Opinion: The slogan hurting Democrats’ election chances | #elections | #alabama
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Google-News-Wire
- October 23, 2022
- catherine cortez masto
- crime
- crime rates
- crime statistics and rates
- criminal offenses
- Donald Trump
- elections and campaigns
- government and public administration
- government organizations - us
- law enforcement
- law enforcement and corrections
- policing and police forces
- political figures - us
- political organizations
- politics
- tommy tuberville
- us congress
- us democratic party
- us political parties
- us republican party
- us senate
Editor’s Note: Paul Begala, a Democratic strategist and CNN political commentator, was a political consultant for Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign in 1992 and served as a counselor to Clinton in the White House. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his. View more opinion on CNN. CNN — Crime is an important issue. There, I […]
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Mayor of Washington, DC, faces formidable primary challenge
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser faced a formidable fight for a third term, challenged in Tuesday’s Democratic primary by two council members in a race dominated by crime and public safety issues. During Bowser’s tumultuous second term, she clashed with former President Donald Trump and walked a public tightrope between her own police department […]
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