Mayor

Chicago's next mayor may find the city's coffers almost empty after Richard M. Daley dipped into reserves to balance this year's budget. The city expects a $654.7 million deficit for 2011, Bloomberg News reported. Daley balanced this year's budget partly with reserves. If he uses funds from...

In just one and a half years, Foursquare has taken social networking to a new level by offering geo-location services that allow users to notify their friends about where they are shopping, eating or drinking. And it hasn't gone unnoticed. CEO Dennis Crowley shares his thoughts on the recent launch of geo-location application Facebook Places.

The battle to be the "mayor" of a local store or restaurant on the popular location-sharing service Foursquare is heating up as Pizza Hut begins to offer Mayors a free order of bread sticks, starting August 10th, joining the collection of retailers offering their most frequent customers a reward....

It's nothing for die-hard lotto fans in the U.S. to travel to a neighboring state when a triple digit jackpot makes headlines, but would you fly to another country just for a chance to buy lottery tickets? That's what's happening in Italy, thanks to a record-setting $194 million dollar jackpot in...

When the mayor of your town suggests that individuals complaining of noise violations near an airport should sell their homes to deaf people, you know you have a character on your hands. But when he backs up a city employee who tickets resident vehicles in their own driveways you may want to call...

Ahh, Mayor Sam Adams. We Portlanders so want to love you, with your yellow bike helmet and your openly gay self-ness. You reflect all that is Portland, bike-geeky and weird, weird, weird.Lately, however, you reflect us a little too well. Like one of those magnifying mirrors that lets you see your...