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November 6, 2013
DETROIT (AP) — When Mike Duggan recites the oath of office in January as Detroit's first white mayor in four…
November 5, 2013
ATLANTA (AP) — Voters in Atlanta are deciding whether to re-elect Mayor Kasim Reed, who faces three lesser-known challengers...
November 5, 2013
OPINION - Outgoing NYC mayor Bloomberg is going out like George Wallace, allowing his political legacy to be defined by…
November 5, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - If Duggan, a write-in candidate who overwhelmingly won the primary elections in August, wins, as the polls…
November 5, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - With a recent ruling placing the future of stop-and-frisk in the hands of the next mayor, many…
November 4, 2013
DETROIT (AP) — A candidate once thought to have little chance of getting past Detroit's primary election is the front…
November 1, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) - Bloomberg made the comments Friday, a day after an appeals court blocked a judge's order requiring…
November 1, 2013
theGRIO Q&A - TheGrio sat down with Lhota days before the final mayoral debate to discuss the controversial ad, his…
October 31, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York City Mayor David Dinkins has been hospitalized with pneumonia...
October 31, 2013
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Now that Mayor Cory Booker, who brought a worldwide spotlight and hundreds of millions of dollars…
October 28, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - In the clip, Chiara speaks directly to camera in the same style that Dante did earlier this…
October 24, 2013
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Standing near where tens of thousands of African slaves landed in Charleston, Mayor Joseph P. Riley…
October 18, 2013
OPINION - Lhota may be able to convince voters he’s not Ted Cruz or John Boehner, but this ad shows…
October 18, 2013
theGRIO Q&A - With just over two weeks before Election Day, and leading by more than 40 percent in the…
October 17, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — Republican Joe Lhota on Wednesday released the New York City mayoral campaign's harshest ad to date,…
October 16, 2013
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — U.S. senator-elect Cory Booker said Thursday he's ready to go to Washington and is not afraid…
October 16, 2013
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin asked a federal judge Wednesday to throw out his indictment…
October 15, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The current discussion inside Newark's distinctive, deep-rooted and often divisive wards is who should follow Booker and…
October 10, 2013
DETROIT (AP) — Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced Thursday to 28 years in prison for corruption, the apparent…
October 3, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — A new poll shows Democrat Bill de Blasio leading Republican rival Joe Lhota (LOH'-tuh) with 71…