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Newton alderkockers to become city councilors
By adamg on Tue, 03/17/2015 - 10:41am
Village 14 reports the Newton Board of Aldermen has voted to transmogrify itself into the Newton City Council effective Jan. 1.
Ed. note: Boston had a board of aldermen - and a common council - until 1909, when a new city charter replaced both with a single city council.
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Definition
ALTER COCKER
An old and complaining person. An old fart. (Yiddish)
Looks like this guy:
https://twitter.com/altercocker
Ed. note: Boston had a board
Worst decision in Boston governmental history.
Besides maybe the Olympic support.
And why is that?
And why is that?
Each ward used to have an
Each ward used to have an elected representative in addition to at large city councilors elected by the wards. The mayor was much weaker. There was significantly more neighborhood level representation and responsibility of elected officials at a hyper local level compared to today. It was also harder for a small number of corrupt people to control the city against the wishes of the majority of the public.
If the Honey Fitz ...
Not so sure that worked in practice. Seems that there were scandals both before and after the change.
Does this change anything
Does this change anything besides the name?
Adam's Vocabulary
Transmogrify, one of the many SAT words I learned from Calvin & Hobbes
Let's just hope the Newton
Council remembers to set the dial to 'transmorgrify', and not 'duplicate'.
I too listen to The Howard Stern Show.