Chicago Tribune (April 1)
“The issues in Tuesday’s election for mayor of Chicago are perennials: teetering city finances, gun violence, public schools, City Hall corruption. Either finalist, Lori Lightfoot or Toni Preckwinkle, would be a capable mayor. But let’s pause to celebrate that whoever next leads the city will be unique: Chicago’s first African-American female mayor.”
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Washington Post (March 30)
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s is facing his biggest threat in years. He has tried to stack the deck for his candidate in the Istanbul election, “but this ploy appears to have backfired. Some polls are predicting a serious loss for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its nationalist allies.”
