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Indiana State Sen. Eddie Melton, D-Gary, declared victory in the Democratic primary race for Gary Mayor on Tuesday night shortly after his opponent, incumbent Mayor Jerome Prince, called to concede.
Municipalities' ethics boards often can't investigate mayors because mayors appointed their members. Niles is trying a new tack, an elected ethics board, but it have only advisory powers, like most appointed ethics boards.
“I don’t think a lot of people recognize that Martin Luther King, being the civil rights icon that he was, was heavily focused on class issues and economic issues, and so Professor Griff will talk to us about that," said Jordan Wilson.