mayor
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The mayor didn’t respond to a request for an interview, and her office didn’t respond to a detailed list of questions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Burnham, the former mayor of Greater Manchester, told the BBC on Wednesday that he did not want to see the club's Emirati owners walk away as a result of the case.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
“There’s no gotcha, there’s no backroom deal,” the mayor said before the contract was shelved.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
In his BBC interview, Burnham also said he was "of course" confident that his own interactions with City's owners as Greater Manchester mayor would stand up to scrutiny.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
As the meeting was breaking up, a white reporter for the Morning Herald asked to speak to the mayor alone.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
All the recent L.A. mayors I’ve known had their faults and failures, whether the task was filling potholes, building out transit or addressing the high cost of housing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
He aims to achieve this by allowing mayors more power over budgets, in a 10-year plan to transform the economy.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Prime Minister Andy Burnham last week unveiled plans to let regional mayors slap a tax on hotel stays.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
The government will announce more details after the Housing Secretary Angela Rayner meets mayors on Thursday.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
The local authorities, after the armistice of Neerlandia, were mayors without initiative, decorative judges picked from among the peaceful and tired Conservatives of Macondo.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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