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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
New Mayor Matthew Stroia ready for North Canton leadership role
NORTH CANTON ‒ Matthew Stroia is now the 25th person to lead the city as mayor. "I'm really excited to get started," he said after a swearing-in ceremony on July 25 at City Hall. "It's very emotional because I love this place. This is my hometown and when I gave my first stump speech six years ago, I said I bleed orange and black. And I do." Stroia, 49, who was council president since December 2021 and at large council member since December 2019, succeeds Stephan Wilder, who announced July 22 he was stepping down. Related: North Canton Mayor Stephan Wilder to retire after long career with the city Wilder attended the ceremony. The city charter says the council president becomes mayor if the mayor resigns. Stroia took the oath by a wall with the portraits of his 24 predecessors. Stroia's wife, Jessica Stroia who is the president of the North Canton City School Board, and their 14-year-old son, Aiden, sat in the front row. The room at the North Main Street entrance of City Hall was filled with city employees, nearly all of City Council and well-wishers. They applauded loudly and Wilder embraced Stroia. "Thank you Mayor Wilder," Stroia said. "Over 40 years of public service, and the best thing is you have a big heart and you're a great man." Talking about the city staff and community, Stroia said, "but we're a team. I mean we're all together. So let's always have each other's backs. Go forward and let's always try to improve for all the people. For our community. .... To be the 25th mayor, I wasn't expecting it on this timeline. But I'm very happy to serve." Stephan Wilder issues support Wilder addressed the crowd and thanked the community and city staff. "We have come across so many things in these last few years. We've made major decisions. We've had obstacles. We've had challenges. But we also with working with council, administration and our whole (city) staff all of our decisions are made (for) the welfare of our city," he said. Wilder said he is not moving out of the city. He plans to serve on local boards for nonprofits like North Canton Cares Pantry and the North Canton Heritage Society. Stroia said he will file by the Aug. 6 deadline petition signatures seeking to run for the two-year term starting Dec. 1. Wilder has endorsed Stroia's election. "I think he's going to give all his best. ... He's rounded. He's a hometown young man. He comes from a great family. I think he has good working knowledge of city government in his time on city council," Wilder said. The mayor is a part-time position, according to the city charter. The mayor hires with approval of council the director of administration who serves at the pleasure of the mayor. The mayor has the power to veto legislation approved by council. By state law, Stroia will earn $19,418 a year, a pay increase from $8,809 a year that he earned as council president. North Canton mayoral history Wilder was the eighth mayor of North Canton to resign before the end of his term. This last happened in 1998 when William Hines resigned to become the city's law director. Then-Council President Darryl Revoldt became the mayor. Council member Stephanie Werren, At Large, becomes the council president. Council will appoint a resident of the city to the vacant at-large council member position to serve the remainder of the two-year term until Nov. 30. Stroia owns and operates the tax filing firm Buckeye Tax, the investment advisory firm Investment Network and two businesses at Oakwood Square in Plain Township, the cigar bar OSI and the brewery Spider Monkey. Stroia has not announced any plans as mayor, other then talking with staff and learning more about city departments. Twenty-four others have served as mayor of North Canton. The first mayor was William H. "Boss" Hoover, from 1906 to 1909, when the community was a village known as New Berlin. Three of the 25 served as mayor in two non-consecutive periods. Reach Robert at This article originally appeared on The Repository: Matthew Stroia becomes 25th mayor of North Canton Solve the daily Crossword
Zawya
4 days ago
- Politics
- Zawya
Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio Presides Over Swearing-In of Two Deputy Ministers
His Excellency President Dr. Julius Maada Bio today presided over the official swearing-in ceremony of two newly appointed Deputy Ministers: Mr. David Fortune, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, and Mr. Paul Hingha Augustine Charles Tucker, Deputy Minister of Communication, Technology and Innovation. The ceremony was held pursuant to Section 57 of the 1991 Constitution of Sierra Leone, which mandates that Minister or Deputy Minister shall take and subscribe the oath before for the execution of officials must take an oath before entering upon the duties of office. Declaring the purpose of the ceremony, Secretary to the President, Mr. Barba Brima Fortune, explained that following the President's nomination and the completion of parliamentary vetting, the two appointees had been duly approved by the Parliament of Sierra Leone. Speaking on behalf of the newly sworn-in officials, Mr. Paul Hingha Augustine Charles Tucker expressed deep gratitude to President Bio for entrusting them with the opportunity to serve the nation. 'We pledge to fully support our supervising ministers in implementing your administration's governance policy objectives and in consolidating the progress already made. We are mindful that this appointment is not merely an achievement but a call to confront complex challenges, and we are committed to meeting that responsibility with diligence,' he affirmed. In his statement, President Julius Maada Bio congratulated the two Deputy Ministers and acknowledged the weight of responsibility that comes with their appointments. 'You are taking up your roles at a time when we are confronted with several challenges, including resource constraints largely driven by global geopolitical tensions. However, I urge you to inject fresh ideas and adopt innovative approaches that can thrive within our local ecosystem,' the President advised. Distributed by APO Group on behalf of State House Sierra Leone.
Daily Mail
6 days ago
- Politics
- Daily Mail
JOHN MACLEOD: So long, Sir Jamie, but parliament won't see your like again - it won't be allowed to!
It was a balmy May 2011 day in Edinburgh and, down at Holyrood and after the latest Scottish parliament election – and in alphabetical order – all the MSPs, one at a time, were being sworn in. They sashayed down alternate ramps, hoisted in turn a right paw, and obediently repeated, clause by clause, the rubric read out to them. An alarming number merely 'affirm' – they don't do God. There's always some showboating. Folk who prate, in prefix, of their true loyalty to the 'people of Scotland', or who insist in repeating the whole rite in Gaelic, Catalan or Klingon. But when a venerable Conservative MSP for the Highlands and Islands sailed down to renew his troth to Queen Elizabeth, her heirs and successors according to law, we leaned forward in the cheap seats, sure something was poised to go wrong. In the event it took five stumbling attempts, each ever more desperate, before he finally managed to pronounce his own name. And, alas, 'I, Sir James Angus Rhoderick Neil McGrigor…' had an awful lot of name. When he finally crested that Everest, to the last syllable, there was whooping and thunderous applause, for he was – on all sides of the chamber – very much beloved. Sir Jamie, who died peacefully last Sunday, was often underestimated. He was a talented guitarist, a natural comic, and the first MSP to pilot a Private Member's Bill – in his case, establishing a national registry of tartans – onto the Holyrood statute book. Few such characters make it onto Westminster or Holyrood ballots today. They are seldom allowed to. The days when a local constituency association could simply anoint a candidate, when he is a fully paid-up party member and they like the cut of his jib, are long gone. They can only pick someone off a centrally approved list of clones, bores and lickspittles – and few of any interest, character or backbone survive the process. That's before you even get to women-only shortlists or other diversity tick-box tricks. In 2021, Nicola Sturgeon got rid of Joan McAlpine – an SNP list MSP for South Scotland, not 'one of us' on trans issues – by the simple expedient of ruling that the top spot on the regional list (and, thus, the only Nationalist with a hope of election, given their near-sweep of physical constituencies) go to someone disabled. In like manner, when our local Western Isles MP Angus MacNeil a couple of years ago lost the Nationalist whip, a new face had to be signed up for the looming Westminster election. The obvious candidate was the Stornoway North councillor Gordon Murray. Smart, educated, delightful, happily married, a tireless community advocate and a Free Church adherent, big on the Lord's Day and that. But we never got to vote for him. Even signed-up SNP members were not allowed to vote for him, for Cllr Murray was blocked in 'vetting'. We ended up with a woman no one had ever heard of and Labour's Torcuil Crichton duly buried her by a country mile. You look back on the politics of yore and wonder how many would have made it onto the ballot paper in the modern era against the anointed ones – lanyarded aides, researchers, step-and-fetch-its and professional politicians ever since uni; those who have never actually had a real job, nor one original idea between their ears, nor psychologically ever left the student union. Which is why, from NHS Fife to the Scottish parliament, we see numpty reaching out unto numpty, signed up to the latest woke obsessions and totally out of touch with reality. You simply wouldn't get a Margo MacDonald in either parliament these days. Or a Michael Forsyth, or a Teddy Taylor – people with strong values, bold opinions and an incorruptible ethos of public service. Margo spoke up all her days for the poor, the marginalised and the voiceless. Teddy Taylor – a superlative MP for Glasgow Cathcart – clamoured for capital punishment as if he had shares in rope. Everyone hated Michael Forsyth – not least because, time and again, Stirling kept re-electing him – but I saw him holding the floor at an Edinburgh University 'Pies, Pints and Politics' town-hall in 1985, and not one trendy Leftie managed to lay a glove on him. 'And where did you hear that?' he inquired of one be-denimed brat. 'I read it in The Observer…' 'Ah,' mugged Forsyth, in sepulchral scorn, 'you read it in The Observer,' and – hostile to a man as the gathering was – everyone erupted in laughter. Four decades ago a joyous triple-act regularly did the studio rounds: Sir Julian Critchley (Con, Aldershot), Austin Mitchell (Lab, Grimsby) and our own Charles Kennedy. They were all blessed with fresh minds; distanced just a little from their respective parties. They were a hoot and, inevitably, were soon dubbed 'Critch, Mitch and Titch'. As the late Edna O'Brien once lamen-ted, the question these days is less, 'Where have all the fairies gone?' but, 'Where are all the thinkers now?' The hollowing-out of our political parties is one of the few debauchings in public life that cannot be blamed on Tony Blair. The likes of Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell repeatedly rebelled in the voting lobby – in Corbyn's case, hundreds of times – but they were left to frolic, in entire irrelevance, to their hearts' content. John Prescott, as Deputy Prime Minister, was less a colleague than a sort of pet. The rot really began with the Tories when David Cameron – who had effectively franchised out his political brain to George Osborne – took command in 2005 and embarked on the 'Conservative modernisation project'. They looked not to Thatcher or Churchill, but to such improbable gods as Clinton and Blair, and did their best to reinvent one of Europe's oldest and most ruthlessly successful political parties as blandly cuddlesome. In the Nationalists, you might trace it back even to the late 1970s, when the SNP elite panicked after the disastrous Glasgow Garscadden by-election. (In a seat where Royal Navy shipyard orders really kind of mattered, local activists had mulishly nominated a pacifist.) The trouble with closed party lists is not that you identify and nail down your best and brightest. You are simply setting yourself up to be lied to, and the people who best game that process tend to be generally away on the moors of moral turpitude. As brilliant a mind as the SNP ever possessed, Stephen Maxwell stared when, amidst the 1999 selection winnowing, he was asked to assure his interlocuters he would never, ever vote against some decreed party line. He could readily imagine all sorts of situations when he might have to, he patiently explained. Maxwell did not make the list. Latterly frail, having to tote bottled oxygen wherever he went, Sir Jamie McGrigor was in 2016 heavily 'encouraged' not to stand for Holyrood again. He ended his career as only he could, as a councillor subsequently for Oban South and the Isles – and, in 2022, was expelled from the Scottish Tories. By accident.
New York Times
18-07-2025
- Business
- New York Times
Trump Hosts I.R.S. Commissioner in Oval Office
President Trump held a ceremonial swearing-in on Friday in the Oval Office for Billy Long, the new commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, in a sign of the unusually close relationship Mr. Trump has sought with the typically apolitical tax agency. The event, closed to the press but scheduled for Friday afternoon, came almost a month after Mr. Long, a former Republican congressman, took the helm at the I.R.S. Mr. Trump's decision to nominate Mr. Long broke from the norm that I.R.S. commissioners don't change over with a new president. Mr. Long's previous tax background included helping businesses claim a pandemic-era tax credit that was riddled with fraud and cost the government billions more than anticipated. The swearing-in, experts said, was also unusual, as presidents have historically left the I.R.S. at arms length. Charles Rettig, who Mr. Trump picked as I.R.S. commissioner in his first term, said he was invited into the Oval Office for photos with Mr. Trump not long after he started the job. 'There was no ceremonial swearing in with the president nor any discussion regarding the I.R.S. or I.R.S. operations. In and out for Oval Office pictures, without more,' Mr. Rettig wrote in an email. Even before his pick to lead the I.R.S. took office, Mr. Trump has sought to enlist the agency in his political goals. He has called for the I.R.S. to strip Harvard of its tax-exempt status, a step barred by federal law. And his administration has sought to use confidential taxpayer data to help deport people, a departure from the agency's tight protection of tax records that prompted several top I.R.S. officials to quit earlier this year.
CTV News
10-07-2025
- Business
- CTV News
Former justice minister David Lametti confirms start date as adviser to PM Carney
Prime Minister Mark Carney arrives for a swearing in ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Friday, March 14, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick OTTAWA — Former Liberal justice minister David Lametti starts his new job in Mark Carney's Prime Minister's Office on Monday. Lametti posted on LinkedIn to confirm his start date as Carney's principal secretary, a top political aide position. Carney's new chief of staff, former UN ambassador Marc-André Blanchard, started in his role at the beginning of the week. Lametti, Blanchard and Privy Council Clerk Michael Sabia are the key hires in Carney's inner circle. Sabia is a former deputy minister of finance and was president and CEO of Hydro-Quebec before he was tapped to take over as the head of the civil service. He sent a letter to the public service on Monday, warning that some internal government processes have become too complicated and telling public servants they must focus on the government's priorities. This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 10, 2025.
