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Papillion's Steady Hand: David Black Reflects on a 17-year Mayorship

David Black voted against himself. In 2009, when the Papillion City Council elected its own president, Black cast his ballot for someone else. He didn’t think he was ready. Three months later, the mayor resigned under a cloud of scandal, and Black, now council president by default, stepped into the chair he had tried to avoid. He has been there ever since. Seventeen years later, Black is preparing to hand off a city that looks almost nothing like the one he inherited. Under his watch, Papillion grew