The three Democratic candidates for Mayor of Ithaca attempted to avoid entanglement in the thicket of town-gown relations at a forum held Tuesday in Collegetown, finding common ground on many of the pressing issues between the city and Cornell.

Despite encouragement to run for a third term, Mayor Carolyn Peterson announced that she would not run for reelection.  

Mayor Carolyn Peterson’s decision not to reappoint Board of Public Works Commissioner Cynthia Brock on Jan. 4 raised questions about the mayor’s political motivations. 

Douglas Palmer spoke at Bradfield Hall on Wednesday, discussing his time as mayor of a racially-divided city.

DETROIT (AP) — A judge ordered Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to jail Thursday for violating the terms of his bond in his perjury case, a decision the judge said he would have made for any "John Six-Pack" defendant before him.

The mayor, who is accused of lying under oath in a civil case and faces eight felony counts, made a trip across the Detroit river to Windsor, Ontario, on city business last month without informing the court in advance, leading the county prosecutor's office to request Kilpatrick be punished.

Only minutes earlier, the mayor offered an apology to the court, telling District Court Judge Ronald Giles that for seven months, "I've been living in an incredible state of pressure and scrutiny."