Mayoral Candidate Rossbach asks Maplewood Police to Remove Public

"   3-26-09 [Councilman]Will Rossbach asked Maplewood police to remove the public from the last Smoke Task Force.  Council Member Rossbach didn't get the group to vote his way tonight, so he then tried to...

Vision Vancouver's Eleanor Gregory 'Pulls a Sarah Palin' by Using Private Ema...

When it comes to conducting government business on her private email account, rather than on her official government account that would put the email on public record, Vision Vancouver’s Eleanor Gregory is...

Chile: Local elections give warning to Bachelet coalition

The Chile´s governing left leaning coalition- Concertación Democrática- has been defeated by a small margin to Conservatives - Alianza por Chile-at the local elections yesterday.  This is the...

Brazilians vote in runoff mayoral elections

"President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's Workers' Party is poised to gain power in many cities _ but lose Sao" " SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Brazil's ruling party will likely lose its push to retake control of South...

Brazil poll result mixed for Lula

" Brazil's local elections have brought mixed results for President Luiz Ignacio da Silva's Workers' Party. Almost 130 million Brazilian voters went to the polls on Sunday to elect mayors and councillors. ...

Filipinos emerge as new force in BC politics

Even though I've been following the Vancouver election quite closely I was unaware of this dimension.  An interesting read from a local paper that gets too little credit for publishing important news."Behind...

13,000 back new political perspective

Vancouver's mayoral race is already breaking the records.  It seems that Vancouverites are looking for change too.  In some ways the local race mirror's the US Presidential race with new entrants like...

MLA wants labels on potentially toxic food

This seems so commonsensical that I can't believe it isn't the case already.  "Vancouver-Fairview MLA Gregor Robertson plans to introduce a private member's bill in the legislature today making it mandatory...

Report: Blair thinks Brown cannot win against Cameron

The fortunes of British prime minister Gordon Brown continue to slide as news comes that Tony Blair reportedly doesn't think Brown can beat David Cameron. With the London mayor elections coming up on Thursday,...

Ken Livingstone admits he only bid for 2012 Olympics to 'ensnare' taxpayer bi...

Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has admitted he 'ensnared' the Government into bidding for the 2012 Olympic Games."Last night in London, he told a mayoral hustings that the event was just a way of extracting...

B.C. Liberals dominate fundraising race

This is an interesting tidbit that I came across in today's Victoria paper:"The province's official Opposition was once again virtually shut out in the corporate sector, raising just $25,000 from corporate and business donors, or less than one dollar for every 168 brought in...

Vision's Three Would-Be Kings

Here is a great backgrounder on the 3 Vision party candidates shooting to become Vancouver's next mayor."Voters won't go to the polls until November, but the contest to become the mayoral candidate for Vancouver's...

Endorse horse race

"If the number of endorsements counts for anything when it comes to getting the nod to be Vision Vancouver's mayoral candidate, Gregor Robertson is well ahead.Robertson's camp has emailed so many endorsements to the 12th & Cambie inbox that it's got the IT staff at...

London's mayoral race under way

As London's mayoral race officially starts today, Conservative candidate Boris Johnson is surging in the polls. It is the first sign that Ken Livingstone, London's first mayor, may have trouble holding on to...

NH1 plate may be worth £250,000

''Not only should Northampton Borough Council sell this number plate, they should also sell any other council owned cars, property and asset's which are not really necessary to carrying out the function of managing the Town. It's called cutting your cloth to fit the...

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