Although the new mayors tended to be younger men, they did not represent a new class of people.

The Bloomberg team would not comment, but mayors tend to dislike dedicating taxes and revenues in ways that limit their budget choices.

Those schools account for a third of all school-based crimes, the mayor said yesterday, and also tend to have the lowest academic performances.

Even those who support the mayor tend to talk about the good job he is doing, not about what a great guy they think he is.

The mayor cannot tend to all 578 miles.

A cautionary note: History suggests that traveling mayors tend to be impressionable.

And most deputy mayors tend to go on to distinguished careers.

California's mayors and city councils tend to work together better than its legislators and governor because mayors do not enter office on a partisan ballot.

"The mayor tended to look at the arts in large part as economic development - what's it going to create in jobs and income back to the city?"

Granted, our mayor tends to regard armed, taxpayer-supported guards as something that no serious person would leave the house without, like shoes.