Craig Nelson is a former international correspondent for The Associated Press, the Sydney (Australia) Morning-Herald, Cox Newspapers and The Wall Street Journal. He also served as foreign editor for The National (Abu Dhabi) and as the Journal’s Kabul bureau chief and London-based Africa and Middle East editor.
Local and state officials who were fed up with Orange Crush or never liked it in the first place couldn’t ban the annual rite of spring outright after last year’s traffic and management debacle. But
The landslide win raises hopes for a constructive city council. With all precincts reporting and all votes counted, Johnson won 77.3% of the 21,696 votes cast.