by Dan Ring
dring at repub.com
"We made a mistake, a simple mistake," he said.

More than 30 years after passage of the law, that's an all-too-common refrain among municipal leaders.

In one of the most egrigious cases, the Boston City Council was fined $11,000 in 2006 by a Superior Court judge for repeated violations of the law spanning about two years.

Webcast of this afternoon's Boston City Council's public meeting is now on the air at
http://cityofboston.gov/citycouncil

Today's Boston City Council Agenda and
Minutes of the previous meeting are at http://cityofboston.gov/citycouncil

It would be interesting to read insightful observations of this public meeting from the participants around this universal hub!

a.
What are the names of the streets
that border each of the Boston City Council Districts?...

b.
What maps show the names of the streets
that border each of the Boston City Council Districts?...

It appears names of streets are not included at
http://www.cityofboston.gov/citycouncil/pdfs/approved_planBmap.pdf

Closed captioning is a feature of most scopists' stenographic machine software for people with hearing loss. Boston City Council webcasts lack an up to date stenographic service...

_ _ _ _ _ From: ann.braga at cityofboston.gov _ _ _ _ _ _ _
SICUT PATRIBUS SIT DEUS NOBIS.
CIVITATIS REGIMINE DONATA A.D.1822.
BOSTONIA.
CONDITA A.D.
1630
[ official seal ]
http://www.cityofboston.gov/citycouncil/pdfs/appen_h.pdf

BOSTON CITYCOUNCIL
www.cityofboston.gov/citycouncil

Now meeting. City Council. Boston City Council Television
http://www.cityofboston.gov/citycouncil/live.asp

Should city hall be moved?
Should a hearing be held on the issues?
. 0170 Order for a hearing to discuss the proposal to build a New City Hall on the Waterfront. :

. Mandatory use of GPS global positioning systems technology on all emergency vehicles

I am one of the trio that successfully sued the Boston City Council for 11 violations of the Open Meeting Law between June 2003 and March 2005.

The City Council filed an appeal (!) which is being heard tomorrow at 9:30 ; John Adams Courthouse, Courtroom 4, Third Floor, Boston.

Since we will be arguing pro se and the City Council will be represented by Kirkpatrick and Lockhardt as well as the City's Corporation Counsel, we could use some support.

If you can make it, please come.

If you are free tomorrow morning (December 6), please join me at The Massachusetts Appeal Court - the John Quincy Adams Courthouse, Courtroom 4, Third Floor. (This is adjacent to the Suffolk County Superior Court in Gov't Center).

We are scheduled for oral argument on the City Council's Appeal at 9:30 (McCrea,Kressel and Devine v. Michael Flaherty and the Boston City Council). We sued the City Council for 18 Open Meeting Law violations and we won. The Council is appealing the Superior Court decision.

In September Murphy was trying to keep two jobs a $100,000 + state job and his $85,000 councilor seat

He is the one that tattled on Flaherty for having an expired City Council President placard in his window. How does Howie get is inside anonymous City hall info? Ratso gives it to him.

Turned his back on 41 well trained battle worn Boston Municipal police offices. They all got laid off in January and most of them were friends who had helped him win elections.

While the flyer doesn't say so, I think this is only for the at-large candidates.

The RoxVOTE forum is co-sponsored by the Franklin Park Coalition,  Millions More Movement of Boston, and Democracy for America: Boston.

From Blog for Boston:

The Boston candidates who earned the DFA Boston endorsement by receiving greater than 75% support of the voting members are:

Sam Yoon for City Council At-Large

Gibran Rivera for City Council District 6

Maura Hennigan for Mayor