Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has come under attack by some religious and political leaders for not including clergy members as speakers at Sunday's official ceremony at ground zero on the 10th anniversary of the attacks.
OMITTING CLERGY AT 9/11 CEREMONY PROMPTS PROTEST That was a headline on page one of Friday's Times, over a story describing how "some religious and political leaders" were attacking Mayor Bloomberg "for not including clergy members as speakers at Sunday's official ceremony at ground zero on the 10th anniversary of the attacks".
By Hendrik Hertzberg September 10, 2011 OMITTING CLERGY AT 9/11 CEREMONY PROMPTS PROTEST That was a headline on page one of Friday's Times, over a story describing how "some religious and political leaders" were attacking Mayor Bloomberg "for not including clergy members as speakers at Sunday's official ceremony at ground zero on the 10th anniversary of the attacks".
The House could become institutionally paralyzed until it found a candidate that a majority of its voting members supported as speaker.
Labor's Kelvin Thomson nominated the Member for McEwan Rob Mitchell as Speaker.
The passage of the marriage bill was especially gratifying and poignant for Ms. Quinn because she had spent years lobbying for it, first as an activist, then as a council member and now as speaker.
Whenever the lieutenant governor became acting governor, the Senate was to elect one of its members to act as Speaker; that individual then became next in the line of gubernatorial succession.
Gerry Adams, the president of Sinn Féin, shook hands with William Hay, the DUP assembly member (MLA) who was elected as speaker.
Gerry Adams, the president of Sinn Fein, shook hands with William Hay, the DUP assembly member (MLA) who was elected as speaker.
Mr. Williams, who is African-American, said in an interview that picking a member of a minority group as speaker should be "a priority".
