" 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...
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...
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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...
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"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...
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" 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. ...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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''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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