JOPLIN, Mo. — 12 years after choosing its first female black mayor in Melodee Colbert-Kean, the City of Joplin has another first to celebrate. Keenan Cortez was selected during tonight's special council meeting at City Hall — and it was a unanimous nine-nothing vote. The U.S. Marine veteran has served on the city council since []
Barry Wilson will succeed Mayor Paul Rennemeyer, who is term-limited after becoming mayor in 2020.
The newly elected Mayor – working together with the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority Board - makes decisions which affect the lives of the 1.4 million people across our region, overseeing funding which is used to help create jobs, grow the economy, boost skills, support our public transport network and develop new infrastructure and homes here in South Yorkshire. The Mayor’s functions will also now include those formerly held by the Police and Crime Commissioner. This includes holding...
Haiti has formalized a new presidential transitional council that will help to move the embattled nation toward peace after the Caribbean island has been consumed by gang violence and left with almost no government. A decree was published Friday establishing the new nine-member council in Le Moniteur, the official gazette of the Haitian government, according
Count Binface, the self-proclaimed “space warrior”, has revealed his promises to Londoners if he wins the mayoral election. Eleven candidates will compete for the country's most powerful mayoral post in the May 2 election. After announcing that it was time to "take out the trash", the smartly dressed candidate told the BBC that he is "going for a place in the Champions League" this year after coming ninth in the 2021 election had occupied space.Binface also said he was “the only fresh thing on...
Taking place on May 2, the elections will see 11 candidates fight it out for the most powerful Mayoral role in the country.
The elections are widely seen as a midterm referendum on President Yoon Suk Yeol’s administration.
The announcement throws the Raleigh mayoral race wide open, as Baldwin was expected to bring a considerable amount of funding and name recognition to the fall election.
Maine will become the latest state to join an interstate effort to elect the nation’s president by a popular vote, Gov. Janet Mills (D) announced Monday. Mills said she will allow the legislation to become law without her signature, paving the way for Maine to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, a proposal aimed at guaranteeing
Greece's ruling conservative party on Monday put on its list for June's European Parliament elections a jailed ethnic Greek mayor-elect in Albania whose case has strained relations with Tirana.