HOPE Grace (Gay) Bogard died October 31 with her beloved family by her side in Hope, Maine. Gay was born October 10,1936 to parents Grace and Hayden, and brother Pete Soule of East Corinth. Gay was adored from the moment she was born. Growing up.
woman, a former judge elaine o neil. and ed gainy elected the first black mayor of pittsburgh. maybe the most surprising results of the night is in buffalo, new york, where democratic socialist candidate india walton may have lost to write-in candidate and incumbent democratic mayor byron brown who lost the primary to walton in a shocker. he s declared victory, but the majority write-in vote still needs to be counted. and in minneapolis, a proposition to replace the police department with the department of public safety has failed by a wide margin. this was a voter proposition coming out of the murder of george floyd at the hands of police, with calls to defund the police, a call that hasn t sat well with voters who may want to see police reform, but the idea of radically changing public safety just isn t in the cards. particularly when the crime is up in many cities. a lot of firsts, a lot of young, new people of color, and not progressive winning at the local
in boston. cincinnati electing its first asian pacific mayor. o neil is the first black woman to hold the post in durham, north carolina, and ed gainy becoming pittsburgh s first black mayor. eric adams will be new york city s second black mayor. miguel joins us. miguel? reporter: adams win wasn t surprising. remember the former n.y.p.d. captain and political moderate beat out a crowded field in the democratic primary, including several progressive candidates. he s the second african-american to become his honor of the nation s largest city. but the first to go around nationwide. in boston michelle wu, first woman and person of color, she beat out a centrist, the first south asian to become mayor there. he beat fellow democrat who was a long-time party fixture. democrats also now in control of the city council there. durham, north carolina, looking at its first african-american