commissioner
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But NBA commissioner Adam Silver disagreed that any of this was a problem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Republican Amanda McKinney, a county commissioner who was endorsed by Trump, and Democrat John Duresky, a retired Air Force major, advanced to the general election.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
The commissioner said the decision "must be a milestone moment" to reset the police accountability system.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Tucker, the Democratic candidate for agriculture commissioner, is a fifth-generation Texan who ties his campaign to Texas’ populist movement and focuses on issues that receive the most petition signatures on his website.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026
The commissioner looked again at the paper in his hand.
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
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The commissioners accepted the gifts even as the FCC was reviewing or about to review major Paramount business decisions, including two megamergers.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
There are three commissioners: Gomez and two Republicans — Carr and Olivia Trusty, who joined the panel last year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
But private money managers have been conjuring up new debt instruments faster than thinly stretched state insurance commissioners can rein them in, and the regulatory process sometimes resembles a game of whac-a-mole.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Police and crime commissioners will be abolished as part of plans to devolve powers to Norfolk and Suffolk and create a mayorship covering the two counties.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Five thousand yellow chairs stood on the red-carpeted speaker’s platform, and in these chairs sat businessmen dressed in black, and foreign commissioners and clerics in scarlet, purple, green, and gold.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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