The Bloomberg administration is scrambling to gather enough City Council votes to enact the mayor's final plan for reshaping New York City's skyline with a new generation of ever-taller skyscrapers.
In Bradford, a previously safe Labour parliamentary seat was snapped up by the Liberal Democrats, but in City Hall a minority Labour administration gained enough extra council seats to come close to gaining a majority.
It is not enough for Councils to follow formal regularity; moreover, participation by all autocephalous churches does not make them automatically valid.
The Four Seasons chairman criticised the Better Care Fund but also claimed local councils would not be able to raise enough money from council tax to fund social care, and that the government should be helping to finance the introduction of the national living wage.
And if that sounds expensive, it has to be cheaper than the alternative – where people don't recycle enough, where the council has to print thousands and thousands of leaflets that are ignored, where council staff are endlessly answering the phone to the same queries about schools and nurseries.
