Mayor

  • Where the aldermen are all women

    Good ol' girls run panhandle town.
    By Lynn Harris April 9, 2008

  • Why Cory Booker is mad as hell

    Enraged by his city's unfair drug policies, the Newark mayor vows to stop being polite and start making a difference.
    By Debra Dickerson July 5, 2007

  • Gavin Newsom, before the flood

    San Francisco Mayor's testy exchange with a reporter regarding "the drinking."
    By David Puner February 7, 2007

  • "I'm Mark Funkhouser and I approve this poodle"

    Kansas City mayoral ad: kind, gentle and furry.
    By David Puner February 5, 2007

  • New York City Council to elect first female, openly lesbian speaker

    Christine Quinn is poised to become "the most powerful openly lesbian or gay official in the country."
    By Lynn Harris January 4, 2006

  • Gavin Newsom's mean streets

    San Francisco's mayor hit the national stage when he allowed 4,000 gay couples to wed. But he wishes the world would pay more attention to his new crusade: Reducing crime and despair in the city's poorest neighborhoods.
    By Joan Walsh July 23, 2004

  • Left Coast brawl

    In San Francisco, America's most liberal city, a gay progressive, a Green, a Clinton liberal and a labor favorite are battling to succeed legendary Mayor Willie Brown.
    By Joan Walsh October 31, 2003

  • Kramer for mayor!

    The real-life inspiration for the "Seinfeld" character wants to fix what Giuliani broke. If only stoners could remember to vote.
    By Gersh Kuntzman June 4, 2001

  • Paris when it sizzles

    A candidate for mayor calls for more love and pleasure.
    By Jack Boulware February 22, 2001

  • Busted

    Rosemeri da Costa emerges as Brazil's bare-breasted folk hero after spending eight hours in jail for slipping off her top.
    By Hank Hyena February 11, 2000

  • Taipei mayor surprised by floating corpse

    A river cleanup yields more than garbage.
    By J.A. Getzlaff February 7, 2000

  • As long as he doesn't sound gay

    The mayoral candidate who articulated a growing angst in San Francisco may have been hurt at the polls because of the voice he said it in.
    By Paul Festa December 16, 1999

  • London fog

    How Tony Blair, loony leftists and a sex scandal around a charismatic author turned the London mayor's race into a political-party nightmare.
    By Elkan Allan December 8, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    The "other woman" should dump that loser! Plus: Brill's Content editor questions Salon angle; e-commerce today, gone tomorrow?
    Letters to the Editor November 11, 1999

  • Philly's IOU mayor

    With so many political favors to return after his anemic victory in Philadelphia, will John F. Street turn City Hall into a house of cards?
    By Howard Altman November 3, 1999

  • Burn, sacred cow, burn!

    Lefty weeklies turn on their idols. Plus: Ben is Dead dies, the 17th Annual Testicle Festival and the boy who said yes -- and lived.
    By Jenn Shreve October 8, 1999

  • Aliens blew up my garbage dump!

    SimCity is back -- and managing municipal utilities has never been so much fun.
    By Andrew Leonard February 3, 1999

  • My dinner with Jerry

    By Joan Walsh January 5, 1999

  • The SALON Interview: Jerry Brown

    Moving toward the abyss
    By Fred Branfman June 3, 1996
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