We Have A Rock Star Mayor
OK fine the actual title of the article last month in The Economist was "Rise of the super-mayor" but Rise of the Rock Star Mayor would have been so much more fun. In any case the article talked about Louisville's mayor Jerry Abramson and the important work he's been doing.
rock star super-mayor?
What has he being doing that makes him aJERRY ABRAMSON'S domain is six times bigger and contains twice as many people as it did in 1985, when he first claimed his city's top office. The longest-serving mayor in Louisville's history now oversees not just urban areas, from the old rubber plants to the newly hip Butchertown, but suburban subdivisions and farms. And still Mr Abramson's influence grows. It now extends almost as far as it is possible to see from downtown's National City Tower; it even reaches across the Ohio river into southern Indiana.
streamlined public services and accelerated the redevelopment of downtown Louisville. The city's core is dotted with new museums. A planned cluster of towers designed by OMA, a fashionable architectural practice, will be Kentucky's tallest.
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