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It's Boston City Council Day at the Globe

Reporter John Drake gives us a twofer today - and neither story carries a single mention of words like "indictment" or "extortion."

In one story, he helps City Councilor John Tobin revive his perennial pitch for term limits - which wouldn't apply to anybody currently in office, but which, strangely, never seems to get anywhere.

In another story, Drake lets Councilor and mayoral wannabe Michael Flaherty channel Maura Hennigan and complain that, when the Big One hits, Boston is toast, and it's all Menino's fault.

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It's a routine tactic our Boston City Council uses. Diverting attention from an issue by bringing forth other issues that should have been brought fourth earlier. Council communications is a trick. Instead of being open with citizens our Council withholds public information. Many journalists are beholden, ingratiated to their sources for what little information they can get to put together stories. Many journalists are compromised by ingratiation and their relationships with the hundred or so people staffing our Council.

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Admiral Zakbar, is that you?

Given how little the Globe has cared about the City Council in recent times, I'm doubting anybody at Morrissey Boulevard is beholden to anybody at City Hall. In fact, the more I think about it, the more I begin to suspect the Globe is just being incredibly sloppy in its coverage.

The story about Flaherty says he made his crack "in an interview after a City Council hearing on the public health risks of a proposed biolab at Boston University."

Wait, what? The City Council held a hearing on something that could kill everybody in Boston and all that that warrants is a passing mention in a story about an offhand, unoriginal comment by Michael Flaherty about blue signs on Dorchester Avenue? Did the councilors have nothing to say about the biolab? Was the reporter just too bored to take notes? Did he use up his monthly quota of council stories by also rehashing John Tobin's old term-limits idea? Are they saving it all up for an extensive Sunday Magazine article, just like they did with that baby who got hit by the police cruiser in JP?

OK, OK, I'll stop hyperventilating now. But really, dudes, don't tease us: What happened at the hearing?

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Council Committees' public hearings' notes can be requested from Council Staff Director Ann Braga ann.braga at cityofboston.gov or from the Committee Chair
http://cityofboston.gov/citycouncil

Hearings' notes are recorded by Committees' Liasons.

see also
http://www.cityofboston.gov/calendar/citycouncil.asp
http://www.cityofboston.gov/citycouncil/committees...

Note the new Ethics Committee hasn't been listed yet.

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