Mayors

Saving Our Communities and the Nation Starts from the Ground Up

Sam Adams | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Education, The Portland Plan, Portland, City Government, Local Government, Mayors, Politics News

I help lead one of America's cities -- Portland, Oregon. It is known for being a well-planned city. It's not. At least, not as well as we want it to be. And not as well planned as every American city must be.

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Can D.C. Cops Foil Smartphone Robbers?

Georgiana Bloom | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Thefts, Police, Police Chiefs, Cathy L. Lanier, Vincent Gray, Mayors, Cell Phone, Smartphone, Iphone, Android, Mpd, Technology, D.C., Cities, Imei, Dcmpd, DC News

Your chances of actually losing your life in the nation's capital have gone down. Murders are at an all-time low, according to D.C. crime statistics. But cellphone robberies are on the rise.

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Country in Crisis: Looking to America's Mayors to Rise to the Challenge

Arianna Huffington | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Sam Adams, Social Media, Social Innovation, Antonio Villaraigosa, Rahm Emanuel, Bob Buckhorn, Michael Bloomberg, Innovation, U.S. Conference of Mayors, Corey Booker, Mayors, Vincent Gray, Local Governments, Code for America, State and Local Government, Local Government, Politics News

I believe the solutions the country is so desperately looking for are going to come at the local level -- from our mayors and engaged citizens working with their communities. It's our cities, not the nation's capital, that are the real idea factory of our country.

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Cities Spend Money To Evict Protesters But Not To Help Homeless

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Chapel Hill, Michael Hancock, Atlanta, Portland, Occupy Wall Street Eviction, Mayors, Sam Adams, Video, Occupy Wall Street Movement, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Homelessness, Kasim Reed, Occupy Wall Street Protests, Occupy Wall Street, Homeless Shelters, Homeless, #Occupywallstreet, Denver, Politics News

As cities around the country have swept Occupy Wall Street camps from their plazas and parks in recent weeks, a number of mayors and city officials ha...

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Why Are Many U.S. Mayors Saying They Feel Like 'Bad Guys'?

Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Video, Housing Bust, Housing Market, Labor Market, Budget Gaps, National League of Cities, Reader's Digest, Tax Hikes, Budget Crises, Housing Crisis, Mayors, Business News

Mayors of U.S. cities and towns feel they are being cast as the "bad guys" as they attempt to address budget crises, often through tax hikes and s...

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New Jersey Town Elects First Openly Gay African-American Republican Mayor

Chatham Patch | Laura Silvius | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Bruce Harris, State and Local Government, Gay Republicans, Gay Politics, New Jersey Politics, Chatham NJ, Republican Party, Gay Issues, African-American-Politics, New Jersey Republicans, Mayors, Politics News

Bruce Harris isn't a big fan of campaigning. But now he can at least enjoy the result of his efforts....

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Mayors to Obama: Bring War Dollars Home

Peter Dreier | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Iraq, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, National Priorities Project, Antonio Villaraigosa, U.S. Conference of Mayors, Carolyn Peterson, Dave Norris, Walter Reuther, Los Angeles, Mayors, Permanent War Economy, Seymour Melman, R. T. Rybank, David Cross, Politics News

This week, the nation's mayors, desperate for dollars to keep their cities afloat, demanded: we want our money back!

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U.S. Mayors Pass Resolution To Bring 'War Dollars' Home

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Afghanistan, Budget, Iraq, U.S. Conference of Mayors, Housing and Urban Development, Afghanistan War, Mayors, Politics News

BALTIMORE -- The U.S. Conference of Mayors approved a resolution on Monday calling for an accelerated end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That...

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Mayors Push For Quicker End To Wars

AP | ALEX DOMINGUEZ | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: US Mayors Conference, Mayors Afghanistan Withdrawal, US Mayors Resolution, Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, US Conference of Mayors, Afghanistan Withdrawal, Mayors War Resolution, Mayors Resolution, Mayors War Withdrawal, Mayors Afghanistan, Mayors, Mayors War, Afghanistan War, Politics News

BALTIMORE — Money spent on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq should be spent at home under a resolution proposed Friday by U.S. mayors who called on ...

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The Clean Energy Road to 2035 Paved by the Hard Work of Local Governments

Martin Chávez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stast of the Union, Counties, Green Jobs, Green News, Climate, President Obama, Climate Action, Los Angeles, Clean Energy, Green Energy, President Obama and Administration, Mayor Patrick Hays, Mayors, Local Governments, Epa, Energy Efficiency, County Executives, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Green Techology, State and Local Government, Sustainability, Gainesville, Cities, North Little Rock, Pegeen Hanrahan, Green News

Transforming America's energy mix to be fueled by 80 percent clean sources by 2035 will undoubtedly be a significant challenge. How challenging it will be, exactly, depends partly on the way we define "clean energy."

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School Boards Don't Work

John M. Eger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oversight, Education Reform, Workplace, School Boards, Mayors, Public Schools, Education News

Our schools across the United States have a number of problems and frankly, there is no silver bullet.

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Will American cities really run out of water?

Michael Deane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Infrastructure, Business, US Chamber of Commerce, Water, Mayors, NAWC, Home News

Last month, The Huffington Post ran a piece that highlighted analysis noting 10 major U.S. cities that would have significant "imbalances of water sup...

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Cities Running on Fumes: Where Was the Fuel in the SOTU?

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mayors, Infrastructure, Governors, Jobs, Transportation, Economic Recovery, Stimulus, Cities, States, State of the Union, Politics News

In his State of the Union address, President Obama missed an opportunity to explain how his plans for economic growth, job creation, and the middle class can truly succeed. We need spending, not cuts.

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Why Michelle Obama's Initiative to Reduce Childhood Obesity Will Fail

Hemi Weingarten | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michelle Obama, Washington, Supplements, Education, Washington D.C., First Lady, Health, Obesity, President, Childhood Obesity, Mayors, Weight Loss, Nutrition, Phys-Ed, Supermarket, Initiative, Healthcare, Politics News

I'm sorry, First Lady. Your plan, while commendable, doesn't have a fighting chance. The food industry will outspend the government and nonprofits to keep kids munching and slurping away on junk food.

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StimCity: What America's Mayors Think of the Stimulus

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mayors, House, Oklahoma City, Jobs, Congress, Cities, Pat McCrory, Trenton, Steny Hoyer, Douglas Palmer, Charlotte, Economic Recovery, Mick Cornett, Dannel Malloy, Stamford, Senate, Politics News

Stimulus projects designed for job creation have proven ineffective. To find out why, I spoke with a handful of the nation's mayors, both Democratic and Republican.

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Once a Crisis, Always A Crisis? Obama and Cities

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Adolfo Carrion, Urban Decline, Mayors, Office of Urban Affairs, Cities, Urban Policy, Farm Bill, Economic Stimulus Package, Urban Planning, Stimulus Bill, Ray Lahood, Department of Transportation, Politics News

When Washington politicians speak about cities, their speech is reliably punctuated with catchphrases about decline, crumbling infrastructure, and Detroit. This is a strange phenomenon.

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Realigning The Third Wheel

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Surowiecki, Mayors, Urban Policy, Federalism, Paul Krugman, Stimulus, Third Stimulus, Cities, States, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Politics News

While the stimulus package directed $140 billion to state governments, the recovery act sent very little money directly to cities, which would generate longer-term dividends for federalism.

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Portland Tries a CAP-and-Prosper Plan for Climate Change

Diane Dulken | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Local Food, Copenhagen 2009, Portland, Climate Change, Renewable Energy, Bicycle Culture, Community, Bicycling, Global Warming, Mayors, Climate Action Plan, Green News

Real climate solutions are about turning a dire threat into new opportunities for restoring stability and also creating new prosperity, economic and community health and well-being.

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Want A Successful Stimulus? Reactivate Obama's Grassroots Operation in Cities

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Conference of Mayors, White House, Mayors, Virginia Dupuy, Tom Coburn, Office of Urban Affairs, Urban Policy, Stimulus, Cities, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Barack Obama, Waco, Politics News

Why not set up stimulus accountability outposts of the White House in cities? Obama came into office with a metro mandate and now is the time to claim it.

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Getting Steamy About the Administration's Unrequited Love

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Conference of Mayors, White House, Tom Coburn, Mayors, Richard Flanagan, Fred Siegel, Urban Policy, Politico, White House Office of Urban Affairs, Stimulus, Cities, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Manhattan Institute, Barack Obama, Politics News

America's mayors, as Politico puts its, are "steamed" about the White House's decision to pull hundreds of administration officials out of last weeken...

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Jack Kemp and the Failed Republican Urban Agenda

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Heritage Foundation, Mayors, Jack Kemp, George H.W. Bush, Bruce Vento, George W. Bush, The New Republic, Republicans, Newt Gingrich, Conservatives, Cities, Los Angeles, Enterprise Zones, Michael Kinsley, Frank Jackson, Politics News

Jack Kemp should be remembered as the lone conservative voice to speak about the importance of cities at least since the federal government turned its back on urban areas.

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Why No One Runs For Office Today: An Allegory

Richard Laermer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bad Politics, Florida Politics, Running for Office, Delray Beach, Jeff Perlman, Mayors, Politics News

Why on earth would anyone run for office and spend low-paid days and nights handling the "mishegos" of people who make you feel less than adequate no matter how hard you work?

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Tracy Morgan, Glenn Beck, and Marauding Motorcycle Gangs

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gerald Celente, Complete Streets, Mayors, Motorcycles, 30 Rock, Recession, Fox News, Halloween, Glenn Beck, Dodge City, Urban Areas, Cities, Tracy Morgan, Trends Research Institute, Economy, Politics News

Last night's episode of 30 Rock featured Tracy Morgan's character obliviously fanning the flames of a financial meltdown in Asia as a guest on Larry K...

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Who Cares About New York?

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.25.2011

Urban America is resurgent and hearing the stories -- both good and bad -- from its diverse environs will help city dwellers and suburbanites alike better understand the nation's economic challenges.

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Flailing Dailies: Bye Bye Urban Newspapers?

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tribune Company, Mayors, Bridges, Sewer Systems, Schools, Cities, Dallas, Infrastructure, Journalism, Governors, State of the News Media, New York Times, Roads, Newspapers, Honolulu, Providence, Stamford, Media News

Indeed, city dailies in a tenuous economic state would likely not close their doors completely, but instead would provide only online content or eliminate weekend service.

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