Politics

The city council heard how the street transportation department is educating the public about bike safety. Also, veterans could see free or reduced public transportation fare in the next few years.

Frank Smith III was reelected as the president of Undergraduate Student Government Downtown for the 2014-2015 school year, soundly defeating Walter Cronkite School Sen. Alexis Kramer.

After voting closed for the Undergraduate Student Government Downtown elections, candidates on both sides said they felt positive about the results, which will be released Friday at noon.

It's USGD election season, and the tweets were flying. The Downtown Devil has collected some tweets from this past election season that show the use of social media on both sides.

Norma Munoz, a board member for the Roosevelt School District, has recently been appointed to fill the vacant seat in District 27 in the Arizona House of Representatives. Munoz was a unanimous choice by the Maricopa Board of Supervisors.

In an effort to convert a political power-play, the current vice president of services for student government Downtown met with both vice presidential candidates for Frank Smith III’s campaign during the past couple weeks, trying to get them to leave his ticket, one of the candidates said.

A revised textbook pledge structure is the latest addition to Frank Smith III's re-election platform, a proposed effort on behalf of the Smith administration to cut costs that some faculty members and presidential candidate Alexis Kramer cast doubts on.

A signature agenda item of Alexis Kramer's USGD presidential campaign would not occur during her first term, according to ASU's Benjamin Davis, assistant director of student organizations and programming.

Candidates for president of Undergraduate Student Government Downtown debated on Thursday evening. Alexis Kramer is challenging current USGD president Frank Smith in the running, and the debate broached topics such as student tuition and overall student involvement in USGD matters.

Members of the Evans Churchill Community Association sent a proposal to the city of Phoenix Street Transportation Department to install a signal that would help pedestrians and bicyclists cross Seventh Street at McKinley Street more safely.