#Mayors

These are the most interesting local elections in years, in part because the new metro mayor institutions are being put to the test. Now they need to show leadership and

Professor Fleming

I'm watching this Frontline documentary on policing and they're pointing out that Newark mayor Ras Baraka opposes calls to abolish policing. My question is: Do ANY mayors support abolition? CAN

I'd like to point out the continued coordination between the gov's office, Steve Marshall and ADPH to undermine Alabama's black mayors who are trying desperately to protect their people. /1

Jonathan Walker

Government to create new mayors across the country - and abolish district councilshttps://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/government-create-new-mayors-across-18612356 Plans will be set out in a "Devolution and Local Recover

President @BarackObama shared these words of wisdom with mayors today“Speak the truth. Speak it clearly. Speak it w/compassion. Speak it w/empathy for what folks are going through. The biggest mistake

Donna Ladd 🕵️‍♀️

1. Let's talk some more about this @NewYorker piece today and its clear, um, inspiration. (My problem is decidedly not with its "elitist" readers in good-ole-boy speak.) First, part about

Why are Mayors requesting PPE KITS from us for their district hospitals, and why, when I ask them, do they not procure, may money naman, the common answer is, "there's

Matthew Yglesias

Here’s @AlecMacGillis on a huge practical impediment to reform — when you try to create more accountability for police, they punish elected officials (and the public) by not doing their

A statewide stay-at-home directive has sown confusion in Florida, with @GovRonDeSantis and his aides telling mayors that the order offers far more local flexibility than the plain language of the

Liquid Faerie 🇵🇹🇪🇺🦄🕷🦄🇪🇺🇵🇹 Cinders 🔥

I’m in Portugal , one of my dear friends developed symptoms ; he phoned our local mayors office at 2pm - the medics have just arrived at his house to

Everyone hates Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, which is fine, but I am curious exactly what people think he should have done. Seems like the mayors of these cities

Y’all keep saying we gotta vote out fascism, but ignoring the fascism being committed by these mayors against protestors. This is why I say y’all don’t know what fascism is

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Who is gonna be the first mayor to go rogue? Who is gonna be the first mayor to compromise by deploying police to local businesses only? And justify it by

Sen. Mitch McConnell urges Louisville Mayor Fischer not to infringe on religious rights https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2020/04/10/mcconnell-condemns-louisville-mayors-ban-drive-easter-services/5131046002/ via @courierjournal I would take

A participant invited me to listen to a call between elected officials in the Kansas City area about how & when to reopen from Covid19. It was fascinating to hear

People on this here website confused that Eric Adams and Andrew Yang are defending policing/calling for more of it and winning the New York City mayoral race: something like 95%