"They are beloved by this community, " City Councilor at Large Ayanna Pressley told the Globe.

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Mr. ANDY DEVALPINE (City Councilor, Dillingham, Alaska): The City Council, I guess, I see them as, well, useful in a broad sense.

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Twelve years later, the fiery former city councilor rode a conservative backlash to City Hall, after initiatives like downtown bike lanes were seen by suburbanites as wasteful, elitist intrusions.

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He's now a city councilor in Joplin, and he joins us from Joplin to talk about his experience two years ago and how it might inform the task ahead for Moore, Oklahoma.

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He's now a city councilor there.

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Dipu Ahad, a Labor councilor in the city and a leader of Newcastle Unites, told CNN the EDL were "opportunists" who were making use of anger over the killing to push their message.

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City governments should have greater say over matters affecting their day-to-day functioning, says state councilor Toh Kin Woon.

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