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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford “makes his return to city hall on Monday, when he plans to address reporters in his office directly. What he won’t be doing, which his spokesman confirmed Friday, is answering reporters’ questions,” the Globe and Mail reports.

“Over the past year of Mr. Ford’s scandal-plagued mayoralty, he has routinely refused to respond to questions regarding drug use, a police investigation targeting him, complaints to the integrity commissioner, and questionable behaviour at city hall.”

“We micro-analyze everything. We ought to let people be people. I was just being a person yesterday. I’m sorry if folks were offended.”

— Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (D), quoted by the Los Angeles Times, on using the F-word in televised remarks at an L.A. Kings victory party.

The mayor of San Marino, California “was caught on camera throwing dog feces in his neighbor’s yard,” CBS Los Angeles reports.

The neighbor, “who captured the incident on his home surveillance system, said that he thinks it was retaliation because he opposes a neighborhood dog park.”

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“I want to be mayor. I’ve always wanted to be mayor.”

— Washington, DC councilwoman Carol Schwartz, quoted by the Washington Post, on her late-breaking independent campaign for mayor.

A new Forum Poll in Toronto finds that Mayor Rob Ford’s approval rate “has achieved a new historic low, and he is no longer a contender in any of the tested mayoral match-ups.”

Meanwhile,, 63% of voters say Ford should resign after multiple incidents involving crack cocaine led to him entered a drug rehab program.

Rhode Island Public Radio: “As the longest serving mayor in Providence history, Vincent A. ‘Buddy’ Cianci Jr. is known both for his skills as a political showman and the criminal charges that twice forced him from City Hall. Now, at age 73 and almost done with his treatment for colon cancer, Cianci is considering another run for the top job in Rhode Island’s capital city. Because there’s a large field of candidates splitting the vote, the former mayor has a credible shot at winning.”

Porterville, California Mayor Cameron Hamilton “recently sparked controversy over his suggestion that victims of bullying ‘grow a pair’ in response to a student-led anti-bullying effort,” the Los Angeles Times reports.

Said Hamilton: “I mean, I am against bullying, but I am getting damn tired of it being used as a mantra for everything that ills the world when all most people have to do is a grow a pair and stick up for them damn selves.”

The Toronto Star reconstructs one recent night in Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s life.

“In the course of this March 5 night, Ford will bring together two of his closest felon friends, beating one and accepting drugs from another; go on a racist tirade; and boast that he often has sex with ‘girls’ in front of his wife.”

“I got into major shit for talking to you, so I can’t talk to you.”

— Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, in another interview with the Toronto Sun from an undisclosed rehab center.

“Rehab is amazing.”

— Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, in an interview with the Toronto Sun.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford tells the Toronto Sun that he is “ready to take a break” from the mayoral election campaign to “go get help.”

“The decision to immediately step away from the campaign — while staying on the ballot — comes after… a new raunchy audio recording of Ford ranting and swearing [which] captures the mayor being unruly as he’s ordering booze, complaining about his wife Renata and making lewd comments about mayoral contender Karen Stintz.”

If that’s not enough, the Globe and Mail reports a second video of Ford “smoking what has been described as crack-cocaine by a self-professed drug dealer was secretly filmed in his sister’s basement early Saturday morning.”

Gawker has still shots from the new video.

“If it seemed as though some scenes of CNN’s documentary series Chicagoland were coordinated by Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s City Hall and the show’s producers, that’s because they were,” the Chicago Tribune reports.

“More than 700 emails reviewed by the Tribune reveal that the production team worked hand in hand with the mayor’s advisers to develop storylines, arrange specific camera shots and review news releases officially announcing the show.”

“Producers asked the mayor’s office to help them set up key interactions in what the cable network has billed as a nonscripted eight-part series, including Emanuel’s visits with the school principal who emerged as a star of the show, emails show.”

Marionville, Missouri Mayor Dan Clevenger “resigned Monday night for making anti-Semitic comments in the wake of the arrest of white supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller and after aldermen voted 4-1 to start the impeachment process,” the Springfield News-Leader reports.

“I am telling you if there is a God, when I get to heaven I’m not stopping to be interviewed. I am heading straight in. I have earned my place in heaven. It’s not even close.”

— Michael Bloomberg, quoted by the New York Times.

“The Conservative mayor of Swindon has resigned after he called disabled people ‘Mongols’ and questioned whether they should be allowed to have sex,” Huffington Post UK reports.

The New Republic has a fascinating, must-read interview with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

“There are things that people know, or think that they know, about Rahm Emanuel: He is voluble, tireless, notoriously profane. And yet, when I met him last month, all the stories hadn’t prepared me for his intensity in person. A conversation with Emanuel is a physical experience. When he has strong feelings about a subject–which is often–he frequently sits on the very edge of his chair, emphasizing his point through proximity. At one point, he waved his finger inches from my face, Lyndon Johnson-style.”

“A three-month house arrest for San Diego’s former Mayor Bob Filner is ending,” the AP reports.

“Filner’s confinement ended Sunday, fulfilling a sentence for felony false imprisonment and two misdemeanor charges of battery involving victims of sexual harassment… Filner had to stay in his downtown residential building and was subject to searches and visits at any time from his probation officer.”