Good evening,


on the day after Christmas, public life is slowing down, but there is still a lot to report.

For example, that the Frankfurt public prosecutor's office will not investigate the wife of Frankfurt's mayor, Peter Feldmann, who was voted out and has since been convicted;

there had been a suspicion that she might do it.

More of the day with names and news from Rhein-Main in our evening overview.

Jacqueline Vogt

Department head of the Rhein-Main editorial team of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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Elections:

Peter Feldmann is sentenced, Frankfurt is preparing for the election of a new mayor.

This is important and because of the potential for scandals that repeatedly cropped up around the voted-out mayor, it deserves a lot of attention per se.

There will also be a mayoral election in Mainz shortly, not because of affairs like in Frankfurt, but also interesting.

After the surprising departure of the previous Lord Mayor Michael Ebling (SPD), who moved to the head of the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of the Interior in October, his successor will be voted on on February 12th.

On Tuesday, seven candidates who had already warmed up in the run-up to Christmas were admitted by the electoral committee: five men and two women.

Markus Schug reports.

Rügen:

The deputies in the Hessian state parliament are not reluctant to talk.

At the end of the year, they gave a total of more than 2,200 speeches during 31 plenary sessions, which often lasted a day. They are recorded verbatim on a good 2,600 closely printed pages.

The reputation that the state parliament in Wiesbaden is the toughest in the republic stems from times when the Greens were still very distant from their current coalition partner, the CDU, and committed exchanges of blows bordering on the insult were not uncommon.

Is that still justified?

The statistics of reprimands and calls for order reflect the culture of discussion in Parliament.

FAZ state parliament correspondent Ewald Hetrodt looked at the statistics and reported and commented on them.

Suggestion

: There are articles that are best promoted by citing them, so do it now: “It's never too early to start.

With seeing, leafing through, being amazed.

With wondering, reading and immersing yourself in strange universes and thus discovering strange, unknown worlds, as every book means in the end.” This is what our employee Christoph Schütte writes in an article about the 67th International Children’s Book Exhibition in the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach.

Do you have children, do you love books?

Do you want to do something these days?

Then I would like to recommend my colleague's text to you, because it also contains a proposal for a trip.

And no, you can't just look at exhibits under glass in the museum.

And in addition

, several work platforms burned on the premises of a company in Darmstadt and a technical defect is suspected to be the cause

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the explosive ordnance clearance service in Hesse had to defuse bombs 24 times this year, six times had to be blown up

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Hesse is piling up its financial Help for families with triplets from 2023 to 500 euros to 3540 euros from birth to school enrollment.

Greetings from the editorial team

Jacqueline Vogt

You can also read current reports from the region in Skyline-Blick, our live news blog for the Rhine-Main region, and on the Rhein-Main-Zeitung website.

The

weather

for Wednesday

Very cloudy, the sun rarely shows up.

But it mostly stays dry.

Highs in the afternoon between 9 and 11 degrees.

have birthday

on

Wednesday December 28th

Henning von Vieregge,

publicist, former managing director of the Hessian Employers' Association and former general manager of the General Association of Communications Agencies, Mainz, is 76 years old.

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