RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:
Good morning. I'm Renée Montagne. The mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska is celebrating his 15th year on the job. No worries about term limits for this mayor. Stubbs, so named because he's missing half a tail, is as popular as the day he was elected. Townspeople voted for him as a write-in candidate even though he's a cat out of disappointment with the human candidates and Stubbs has been mayor ever since - honorary mayor.
He's helped the economy, though. Tourists flock the town just to see him. It's MORNING EDITION. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.