The controversy surrounding Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to integrate the city's specialized high schools just intensified.
Inevitably, this year's test scores are bound to be employed in the politics surrounding Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's bid for reelection.
Despite the controversy surrounding Mayor Rahm Emanuel's reduction in library funding that spurred the system's recently reduced hours and staffing, Dempsey has not publicly criticized the mayor as part of her announcement, as she told the Tribune "it was the right time" for her to resign from her post.
The web of scandal surrounding the mayor's office here got a little more complicated today.
The turmoil surrounding the mayor's personal life has produced, obviously, a challenge to his presumed campaign for a seat in the United States Senate.
Zac Goldsmith, the Conservative London mayoral candidate, has denied that attempts to link his Labour opponent, Sadiq Khan, to the antisemitism row surrounding former mayor Ken Livingstone amount to "dog-whistle politics".
The turmoil surrounding the mayor's personal life has produced an undeclared shift in strategy by the Democratic candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton, as her campaign maneuvers to adjust to what aides view as an unsettled period filled with opportunities and perils.
In addition, the victims' families, people in the surrounding neighborhoods, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and others wanted input.
Her family's alleged links to the Beltran Leyva cartel were well known across the state, but authorities had done nothing about the serious accusations — including kidnapping and homicide — surrounding the mayor and his wife.
They stayed out on the edge of the circle, which had been growing by the minute and, by this point, had become a genuine crowd surrounding the mayor of Toronto, who was standing outside the Standard with his Chinese food, minutes after having done Kimmel, obviously wanting to hang out in his hotel room and rest up for the Oscars.
But the publicity surrounding the mayors, coupled with ongoing scandals at the federal level involving Senate expense claims and the unexplained gift of C$90,000 to a senator from the prime minister's former chief of staff, will threaten that standing.
