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Byline: Ross Barkan Is another Democrat about to run against Mayor Eric Adams? Reports indicate that Brad Lander, the city comptroller, is strongly considering taking on Adams in the Democratic [...]

Byline: Annalise Frank and Chad Livengood Better housing stock for Detroiters. More and greener public spaces. Better public transit. A seat at the table for Black-owned construction contractors. A continued [...]

Byline: BRIAN PASCUS The man who would be mayor is making a lot of friends outside New York City. As Eric Adams moves closer to Gracie Mansion, his pool of [...]

Byline: BRIAN PASCUS Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul is not the only political beneficiary of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's resignation from office. New York City's Democratic mayoral nominee, Eric Adams, is likely [...]

West Michigan biz leaders, groups lend Duggan support Ahead of Tuesday's primary, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is reaping support from the west side of the state. That includes West Michigan [...]

Kevin 'Woody' Rider. president of the Carmel City Council, announced this week he will run for mayor in 2023 in a bid to replace Republican Jim Brainard. who said last [...]

Joe Hogsett and Chuck Brewer have presented broad brushstrokes for where each would focus if chosen as Indianapolis' next mayor. Both have promised investments in public safety and emphasized the [...]

De Blasio's rise to the mayoralty was spurred by a promise to curb the city's growing wealth inequality. Since his election the disparity has grown slightly, thanks to income gains [...]

This fall New Yorkers will vote for their next mayor. By all accounts Bill de Blasio's re-election is a near certainty; a recent Quinnipiac poll had his Republican challenger, Assemblywoman [...]

At press time, Democratic incumbent John Fabrizi and Republican candidate Rick Torres were the only ones seeking the mayor's office. When the Bridgeport Regional Business Council played 20 questions with [...]

Mayoral candidates Mary Norwood, Lisa Borders, Kasim Reed and Jesse Spikes of Atlanta, Georgia have each taken advantage of his or her strengths in order to raise more funds for their election campaign. Financial disclosure forms of the candidates were analyzed to know where most of their campaign contributions are coming from. Results of the analysis are also discussed.

Businesswoman Marie Johns' chances in the D.C. mayoral elections and the business community's reaction to her candidature are discussed.

There's little question Myke Shelby stands out in a crowd. The ponytailed Shelby, who talks with a thick East Coast accent, runs a Harley-Davidson motorcycle shop and goes by the [...]

Byline: Keith Crain Most of us were looking forward to a breath of fresh air with the election of Mike Duggan as mayor. His election by the citizens of Detroit [...]

Mike Corbett, owner of Hamilton County Media Group, announced on Sept. 11 that he'll seek the Republican nomination next May to succeed current Mayor John Ditslear. Ditslear, who was first [...]

The 1998 Washington mayoralty race is a close fight for the six aspirants, who seem to have the same pro-business platform that has become the big issue for the 1998 election. Harold Brazil, Kevin Chavous, Jack Evans, Carol Schwartz, Anthony Williams and Jeffrey Gildenhorn may have to attract voters on the basis of their solid achievements in business reform. Anthony Williams seems to have the edge as he helped the city turn a $74 mil deficit for FY 1996-1997 into a $185 mil surplus.

The leading Democratic contenders for mayor in 2013 have all lined up consultants for their campaigns: BILL DE BLASIO: John Del Cecato (TV), Hilltop Public Affairs (media), Anna Greenberg (polling), [...]

Byline: Jeremy Smerd and Shane Dixon Kavanaugh Dan Garodnick lays into John Liu Daniel Garodnick didn't pull any punches as he outlined his vision for the city comptroller post he [...]

Movers-and-shakers accustomed to easy access to city hall may find their keys to the mayor's office don't work anymore if Democratic nominee Freeman Bosley Jr. moves in. A look at [...]

Former judge and New Orleans councilman at-large Eddie Sapir is telling friends and supporters he will probably enter the mayor's race. Sapir has been publicly considering the race for months [...]

State Rep. Karen Carter Peterson, D-New Orleans, joined a growing list of politicians who have decided not to run for mayor of New Orleans next year. In recent weeks, Lt. [...]

In last week's Detroit primary, a small but wise electorate chose some good candidates for the November general election. Dave Bing, our incumbent mayor, was overwhelmingly nominated for a full [...]

With the primary election over, candidates in Detroit's municipal elections are gearing up for a sprint to the Nov. 3 general election. The fields of candidates for Detroit City Council [...]

I have little doubt that Dave Bing will be the runaway winner of the primary for mayor of Detroit. I don't really know who might come in second, but it [...]

A Detroit City Charter revision question that will appear on the May 5 ballot has been touted as a path to council-by-district or a means to provide for the removal [...]

Bing doesn't Twitter, but someone does It's all about Web 2.0 these days, and even Detroit's mayoral candidates are getting on board except when they're not. A user on microblogging [...]

Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz (below) took his incipient mayoral campaign--and a new level of seriousness--to Staten Island last week. Mr. Markowitz was a surprise visitor to the Staten Island [...]

Jeanie Forrester sure got worked up th'other day when Joyce Craig, the Dem Manch mayoral candidate, held a fundraiser with Eric Garcetti, mayor of LA, which is 'is living through [...]

Business divides over mayor's race OAKLAND - The race for mayor in the East Bay's biggest city, like the last three elections, has Oakland's business community sharply divided. Eight candidates [...]

Six months after Gov. C.L. Butch Otter told local Republicans they needed to take back the Boise mayor's office for the GOP, the party has responded by throwing its support [...]

While the Detroit mayor's race gets prime attention, at least four new faces are likely on Detroit City Council, with one council spot already vacant, one incumbent not running, another [...]

Lincoln Navigators, phantom Manoogian Mansion parties, allegations of cronyism ... These and more have grabbed a fair share of newspaper headlines during Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's first term. The conflicts of [...]

A friend of mine suggested a new approach to an endorsement in this year's mayoral race. Since virtually all Crain's readers back Michael Bloomberg, and know why they do, why [...]

Last week's mayoral debates raised a host of issues and accusations, with wide-ranging discussions touching topics from rapid transit to rubbish pickup, from city buses to budgets. But beyond the [...]

Candidates' ads take aim at each other Campaign ads and rhetoric are heating up as Detroit's 2005 mayoral race entered its final month. Challenger Freman Hendrix's campaign ran television ads [...]

Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick isn't the only mayoral candidate with a story that just won't go away. For Kilpatrick, it's the phantom party at the Manoogian Mansion. For challenger Freman Hendrix, [...]

One of Detroit's leading businessmen and a prominent Republican has stepped up to raise $1 million in campaign funds for Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick in the waning days of what has [...]

As someone in the news business and a person whose livelihood at one time depended upon the outcome of the mayor's race, I want election razzmatazz, suspense and conflict. The [...]

I have been amazed that our post-primary mayoral race has been so low-key and, dare I suggest, downright civil. At least so far. I have been advised that in the [...]

Desperate times call for desperate measures. For people seeking elected office, that often means shamelessly kowtowing to special interests. George Pataki has decided he'd rather be president or vice president [...]

The last 100 days of the 2005 Detroit mayoral race likely will be heated, expensive and peppered with negative ads funded by political action committees that don't have to identify [...]

Campaign finance reports for Detroit's mayoral candidates released before Tuesday's primary election show challenger Freman Hendrix raising three times the money collected by Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. The giving pattern appears [...]

Tourism agency revisits the far West Side The rationale for the planned sports stadium on the West Side was that it would provide additional convention space for its next-door neighbor, [...]

With just over three weeks to go before Detroit's Aug. 2 mayoral primary, the question buzzing among metro Detroit's politically active business executives is: Will incumbent Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick win, [...]

As Detroit began its new budget year July 1, the city's finances remained fraught with uncertainty. For the first time in decades, a Detroit mayor is being forced to live [...]

It was just another week in Detroit. At the kickoff for Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's re-election campaign, the mayor's father compared local journalists covering his son to Nazi propagandists who created [...]

Business interests are studiously avoiding Democratic mayoral candidates Fernando Ferrer, C. Virginia Fields and Anthony Weiner with what the contenders prize the most-campaign contributions. Research of city Campaign Finance Board [...]