21.   Mrs. Gresser, the school board president, has ridden shotgun for Cortines as he has navigated the dangerous terrain of city politics.

22.   Perhaps it was the experience covering Austin city politics over the years that prepared me to deal with the contradiction.

23.   Reinforcing the negative stereotypes is a school system that has been under state control for eight years and city politics that can get down and dirty.

24.   Secretary of State William F. Galvin of Brighton has also witnessed the waning interest in city politics.

25.   She was parks commissioner during the administration of David Dinkins, and knows city politics and virtually all the movers and shakers in town.

26.   The Anti-Barren Island League, which briefly became a force in city politics, was mainly concerned about the smell.

27.   The specter of action by the review committee was a new twist in a nasty skirmish between two media behemoths that has now spilled over into city politics.

28.   They had already been widely seen as a crude attempt by murky criminal and commercial forces to stake out more turf in city politics.

29.   Together, the two have the ability to shape and influence education and city politics for a generation to come.

30.   Vallone, a lifelong resident of Astoria, Queens, has spent most of his years in and around city politics.