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Mike Ross for mayor?
By adamg on Wed, 10/08/2008 - 12:38pm
The Dorchester Reporter reports that dapper Mike Ross looks to have enough votes to become president of the Boston City Council in January, taking over from Maureen Feeney of Dorchester. If so, he'll beat out Steve Murphy, who seems unable to ever get elected to anything except his current seat. The new post could also give Ross some citywide visibility - and let's not forget how Tom Menino became mayor.
Maybe with the new job, Ross will even update his MySpace page.
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I really really like Mike
I really really like Mike Ross, I dont kno why, he just seems like such a nice guy who knows what he is doing. I wish him the best and hope that he has the votes.
Its people like him that I think are capable of spanning the gap between old and new Boston. He is a local kid , moved to the big city, went to a big school, became a politician ect. So he has an understanding of both sides.
I will never vote for him
Because after limiting students to 4 per apartment last year he seems to lack common economic sense. I am not trying to open a can of worms on that issue, but that is just how i feel and would not vote for him.
Is that such a bad thing? It
Is that such a bad thing? It seems to me like you can only fit so many students into an apartment before it starts getting slummy.
Well then
The ISD could enforce the other codes that are being violated in these "slummy" apartments. It is an idiotic reactionary piece that is discriminatory at best.
OK, let them enforce
OK, let them enforce everything else...
Any rule in particular you want enforced?
I tend to side with shadymilkman on this one, hynesph.
It's high time something was done about the overcrowding of apartments by students. Not withstanding fire and health hazards when apartments are overcrowded like that, this overcrowding of students into apartments has contributed to much of the tension, strife and grief that goes on between many college students and neighbors, because overcrowding has unquestionably contributed to loud, drunken, stereo-blasting parties that take place until all hours of the night, disturbing neighbors who must go to work, etc. the next day, not to mention drunken students relieving themselves and puking all over people's back yards, etc. One doesn't have to live in Boston to realize that. However, if I did live in Boston, I'd support Mike Ross wholehearted on this issue.
I can't tell if that was
I can't tell if that was sarcasm or not.
In like Ross
This press release just in, via the Dorchester Reporter:
Council stenographic machine
Ask for the stenographic data from the stenographic machine operator at all public meetings of the Boston City Council. The records of Councilors' debate during the public meetings can be commented on and sent back to the Council with the remarks of people reading these important public records.
Ask your favorite Councilor about updating Rule 34 of the Boston City Council to reflect today's current technology. Council communications need to be made more widely accessible
http://www.cityofboston.gov/citycouncil/councilrul...
ISD
I was putting some trash out on Tuesday. It's a cellar cleaning project that took me hours. At exactly 9:02 AM I got a ticket for 'improper/early storage of trash' to the tune of $25. I was in the cellar when the sneak did the ticket, probably waited for me to disappear for a minute. I found the ticket stuffed in my mail slot at 9:30.
Now, you got to know that my trash day is Wednesday. They pick up early on trash day. I live on a dead end street in HP. Just what the hell is going on here? I called ISD and was told I cannot put it out till 5 PM. Course by then I'm in work in Brighton and sure won't be home for 8 AM.
So, I guess I cannot legally put out my trash if I have to work that night...
I went to Central Paint that day and found out "You're about the tenth one to tell me that story."
Seems like the city found a new revenue stream...BTW, I've lived in the same house over 20 years.
The June Cleaver Assumption
When ever my work schedule and my husbands work schedule plus an obtuse city government or school system gets in the way of being able to do needed things, I sometimes wonder if the June Cleaver Assumption is in force.
The June Cleaver Assumption is the assumption that there is somebody at home full time to take care of all these things during the day while the breadwinner is out winning the bread - like put out the trash in the approved time frame, take care of school related things during "mother's hours", etc. Most businesses have their clue and are open at times that people can get to them. Many municipalities are stuck in a bygone era where your mom or your wife will just take care of it while you are at work - all of it.
Id rather just live in a
Id rather just live in a town that had a dump where I could bring my own garbage instead of worrying about putting my garbage out the night before (everynight some guy comes by and looks through everyones garbage for stuff, it annoys me because he makes a mess.) If I could just wake up at 5am on Saturday morning and drop off my garbage at the dump Id do it.
City Documents.
City Documents' electronic format
Word processing files of City Documents can be requested.
The City Documents' Ordinance is due for an update...
Chapter V
Administration
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5-1.10 City Documents.
The Purchasing Agent shall number and print as City
Documents copies of the Mayor's Inaugural or Annual Address,
the Department Reports and such other matter as may be ordered
to be printed in the form of a City document by the City
Council or by the Mayor.
The number of copies of each document to be printed shall,
unless specified by the City Council, be determined by the
Mayor; provided, however, that the minimum shall be one hundred
(100), of which fifty (50) copies shall be bound in sets of
volumes containing all such City documents with an alphabetical
index.
All City documents and sets of volumes shall be delivered to
the City Messenger and distributed in such manner as the City
Council may direct.
The fee chargeable for any available printed City documents
provided by the City Council to persons other than City
Departments shall be:
a. Fifty ($.50) cents for documents measuring six inches
by nine inches (6" x 9") or less and numbering fewer
than twenty-five (25) pages;
b. One ($1.00) dollar for documents measuring six inches
by nine inches (6" x 9") or less and numbering between
twenty-five (25) and one hundred (100) pages;
c. Two ($2.00) dollars for documents measuring six inches
by nine inches (6" x 9") or less and numbering more
than one hundred (100) pages;
d. Two dollars and fifty ($2.50) cents for documents eight
and one-half inches by eleven inches (8 1/2 " x 11")
and numbering fewer than one hundred (100) pages;
e. Three dollars and fifty ($3.50) cents for documents
eight and one-half inches by eleven inches
(8 1/2 " x 11") and numbering more than one hundred
(100) pages;
f. Fifteen ($15.00) dollars for a copy of the book
entitled "Boston's Streets" and fifteen ($15.00)
dollars for a copy of the book entitled "City of
Boston, Municipal Register".
The fees shall be collected by the Staff Director or the
Librarian of the City Council and used to defray the cost of
obtaining printed documents.
Special publications shall from time to time, be printed
on the order of the City Council approved by the Mayor to which
the provisions of this section, except as to distribution shall
not apply.
(Rev. Ord. 1961 c. 4 s 7;
CBC 1975 Ord. T5 s 9;
Ord. 1978 c. 3;
Ord. 1990 c. 11;
Ord. 1999 c. 1)
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What I would do if I were Mike Ross
Hire Don immediately.