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A cat named Stubbs has been the mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska for nearly all of his life.

It's been that way for more than a decade in the small tourist town that boasts nearly 900 residents.

The part-manx was named honorary mayor shortly after his birth, and now locals all know the cat as "Mayor Stubbs."

As the story goes, 15 years ago several of the town residents didn't like the candidates who were running for mayor of Talkeetna, so as a joke, they encouraged enough people to elect Stubbs the cat as a write-in candidate.

He won.

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (AP/WSYR-TV) - The mayor of Binghamton, a city with its share of economic torment, said he plans to hang an electronic "cost of war" sign outside City Hall to drive home how much taxpayer money is being spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Mayor Bing of Detroit wants to shrink the size of the city, and intends on accomplishing that by 'relocating' residents and shutting off city services to other parts of the city. Of course, he wants Federal funds to accomplish this and is anticipating lots of legal challenges to his plan.

Former mayor now elderly may lose home for non payment of overdue property taxes. Home to be auctioned on city hall steps. Community comes to aid.

STOCKTON -- A traffic stop involving a young officer and the son of a small-town mayor has the whole town talking. The mayor of Stockton tried to fire the officer for issuing his son a ticket.

Ocean City, MD is a town with alot of skateboarders that hosts the largest Mountain 'Dew Tour' Skateboarding event of the year. However try to skateboard or rollerblade to the event and you will be ticketed and fined by a 1972 ordinance. For about a week now, the legalization of skateboarding for OCMD has hit the web to bring the issue back to the Mayor and Council. More at: http://www.ocean-city.com/ocean-city-maryland-news/Online-Skateboarding-...

A large yellow parking space with a sign reading “Mayor Parking Only” turned up in an area previously reserved for police squad cars Monday morning after Mayor Ted Franklin received a ticket Friday for parking in a no-parking zone outside the City Building.

An attempt to move a gay bar about a block from its previous downtown location has been blocked by homophobic neighbors and Mayor.

The mayor of Topeka, KS wants to ban anyone in the city from wearing baseball caps and hoodies in public. Wow! Talk about your fashion police.