COVID, mass unemployment, fiscal disaster — the next mayor of New York City will have a lot on his or her plate to cope with. But Hizz-or-Herhonor can make the Big Apple a much better place almost overnight. Face it: Our streets and sidewalks looked like hell even before the […]
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Hoboken Mayor Gives Updates On Coronavirus Numbers, Testing Sites
HOBOKEN, NJ — Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla said in a coronavirus update on Sunday afternoon that the Health Department had confirmed that nine more residents tested positive from Thursday through Saturday. That brings the total cases in Hoboken to 772 since the beginning of the pandemic. Hoboken, a mile-square city […]
L.A. Mayor Warns Water & Power Will Be Shut Off in Properties Hosting Large Parties amid Coronavirus
Carolyn Cole-Pool/Getty In an effort to curb the spread of coronavirus, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has authorized the city to shut off water and power services to any households hosting large parties. “Starting on Friday night, if LAPD responds and verifies that a large gathering is occurring at a […]
Will next Miami-Dade mayor ask voters to fund climate projects? One candidate says yes
Alex Penelas said Wednesday he would ask voters to approve major projects to protect Miami-Dade from the effects of climate change if he’s elected mayor in 2020, saying the county needs the kind of big spending provided by borrowing against property taxes. “If we’re going to be bold on these […]
The Spin: Teachers Union, Mayor Lightfoot and a new game of brinksmanship? | Durkin says GOP candidates will use ComEd, Madigan as talking points in November election
Reopening schools for the looming new academic year already was gearing up to be a political brawl. But things amped up today as the Chicago Teachers Union — concerned that in-class learning would be dangerous amid the coronavirus pandemic — was planning a House of Delegates meeting next week, a […]
Calabasas Mayor Pens Letter To Community
Calabasas Mayor Alicia Weintraub recently penned a letter to the community. The letter in its entirety is below: Another week of summer has gone by and tomorrow we move into the month of August. Everybody thought we would be farther along in the journey to dealing with COVID-19, but the […]
Medford Mayor ‘Concerned’ Over Tufts Reopening Amid Rising Cases
MEDFORD, MA — Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn wrote to Tufts University President Tony Monaco this month about the school’s plan to reopen campus this fall. In her letter, dated July 22, Lungo-Koehn expressed her “concerns and apprehension” over the university’s health and safety plan amid the “daily increases in COVID-19 cases […]
LA Mayor Eric Garcetti Promises “Big Step Forward” In LAPD Reform; Cops Pledge To “Embrace Changes” Over “Prior Missteps”
Click here to read the full article. “Today, we take a big step forward …to ensure equity and justice and fairness for every Angeleno by creating the Community Safety Partnership bureau in the Los Angeles Police Department,” said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti in a somber update on the metropolis’ […]
LA County has more coronavirus cases than Canada, mayor says
Los Angeles County now has more confirmed cases of the coronavirus than “all of Canada,” LA Mayor Eric Garcetti said during a Monday press conference about the virus. He also emphasized that if LA County was an “independent country” it would “have the 20th most cases in the world.” When […]
L.A. county has more coronavirus cases than Canada, mayor says
Los Angeles county now has more confirmed cases of the coronavirus than “all of Canada,” L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti said during a Monday press conference about the virus. He also emphasized that if L.A. county was an “independent country” it would “have the 20th most cases in the world.” There […]
Los Angeles on verge of ‘red’ threat level, mayor says
The novel coronavirus pandemic has now killed more than 570,000 people worldwide. Over 13 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The actual […]
Chicago’s mayor donned a lime green cowboy hat and announced she’d send around a ‘Census Cowboy’ to remind communities to fill out the 2020 Census
hicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks during a news conference in Hall A at the COVID-19 alternate site at McCormick Place in Chicago, Friday, April 10, 2020. AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she’s sending a “Census Cowboy” to 10 communities with low 2020 Census response rates to […]
Atlanta mayor says she has tested positive
A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 535,000 people worldwide. Over 11.5 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. […]
Hoboken Mayor Cites New Coronavirus Spike, All From Travelers
HOBOKEN, NJ — Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla sent out an “important update” to residents Saturday morning saying the Heath Department reported 13 new coronavirus cases Thursday and Friday, the most since mid-May. He said all of the people who tested positive had recently — it was determined during contact tracing […]
Hoboken Mayor Announces New Coronavirus Spike, All From Travelers
HOBOKEN, NJ — Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla sent out an “important update” to residents Saturday morning saying the Heath Department reported 13 new coronavirus cases Thursday and Friday, the most since mid-May. He said all of the people who tested positive — it was determined during contact tracing — had […]
COVID-19 cases are rising in West Sacramento. Mayor explains what’s behind the surge
Few communities are immune to the recent surge in COVID-19 cases, it seems. That’s of little consolation to Mayor Christopher Cabaldon of West Sacramento, where infection rates have risen dramatically in the past two weeks. “The situation is very problematic,” Cabaldon said Tuesday. “It’s no comfort that it’s the case […]
Mississippi Mayor Has A Blunt Message For Coronavirus Conspiracy Theorists
The mayor of a small city in Mississippi is winning praise on social media for deftly calling out all the latest right-wing conspiracy theories. Jason Shelton, the Democratic mayor of Tupelo ― the birthplace of Elvis ― posted a message on Facebook to urge his city’s residents to listen to […]
Hoboken Mayor: Coronavirus Cases Rising Again
HOBOKEN, NJ – Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla said, in a nightly coronavirus update on Monday, that the Hoboken Health Department noted seven new confirmed cases of coronavirus on Saturday, two Sunday, and two Monday, after a recent week in which there was only one new case. That brings the total […]