National City Mayor Is Retiring

National City Mayor Is Retiring

National City Mayor Ron Morrison on Friday said he would not seek re-election in November, ending a 34-year career in city politics. He held a press event Saturday morning. His departure from the mayor’s office marks the end of an era in National City, where Morrison has been a political fixture for more than three decades. “My intention from day one when I ran back in 2022 was that this would be my last term,” Morrison said in an interview Frid…

City Emails Road Match Plan Minutes After Mayor Declines To Detail It

Mayor Joe Hogsett told reporters Monday morning that the city’s $50 million match for state road funding will come from existing revenue, and declined repeatedly to say what spending it would displace. Twenty-eight minutes later, his communications office emailed an itemized plan to one of the reporters who had asked. The exchange came at a 10:30 a.m. media availability ahead of tonight’s introduction of the 2027 city budget, which the council t…