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Add the fire department to the list of departments for which Walsh gets to pick a leader
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Good, I guess
At least Walsh will be able to show us what he intends to do to/for/with the city with his appointments, right off the bat.
If he bones it all up, there will be ample time for someone better plan to run against him. If he was the right guy for the job, then he'll get to immediately implement some needed changes to the fossilized Menino machine.
As it should be.
Clean house. All department heads should resign. If Mayor-elect Walsh decides to keep any of them, so be it. This is now his job to run the city. If he does a good job, that's great. If he doesn't and we see some of the same old stuff like the BRA ignoring the citizens, then he is accountable for that.
Why should he clean house?
Just because the department heads are political appointments? These should be jobs based on merit. If the BRA leader is ignoring people, then fire him. But why fire everyone?
Merit you say
Similar to most of our "National Searches."
Known vs. Unknown
Hasn't Boston recently had a School Superintendent and Fire Chief from a National Search?
Politics is always going to play a part, but regardless of what many people think, most municipal employees who work their way up the ladder do it based on merit, not politics.
Well
And other factors, such as racial quotas.
And as you can tell they've
And as you can tell they've done a super good job having a gov't that reflects a minority majority city.,,,,pssh
Could be worse
Someone could have gifted him Mitt's binders full of women to choose from.
Yep
Apparently he had resumes from all 50 states - plus the other 7 that Obama said he visited during his first campaign for president.
Enjoy the veal
Enjoy the veal
Hope he 'll be ready...
Does he have a chief of staff yet?
Marty should can them all.
These leftover Menino-oids should be purged and their faces printed on decks of playing cards, just like when we got rid of the dictator Saddam Hussein and all his henchmen.
Commissions, Committees, Blue Ribbon Panels, etc.
New complete listings on the web of Commissions, Committees, Blue Ribbon Panels, etc. are needed with addresses for email. A while back Boston City Council staffer Lincoln Smith compiled a list.