Now the City Council can formally debate the firefighters contract

By adamg on Wed, 05/19/2010 - 7:57am

UPDATE: Mike Ross tweets the council WILL discuss the issue, along with an analysis of the award by an MIT managment professor brought in by the council, at today's meeting. Starts at noon in City Hall. No vote, however.

The Globe reports Mayor Menino yesterday filed his plan for paying for the contract awarded the firefighters by an arbitration panel - mostly through money the city had been saving plus money from the new meals tax. The council has 60 days to decide whether to reject the proposed contract.

Mayor's formal submittal to the council.

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I've never seen the Globe as unabashedly political

By Dan Farnkoff on Wed, 05/19/2010 - 9:10am.

as it has been vis a vis this contract dispute. Today, Scot Lehigh went the trouble of once again giving Bostonians a contact number to harass their City Councilors about it. I'm not saying that's not their right- just that it strikes me as unusual. Can't remember another example of the Globe engaging in this kind of full-court-press political advocacy.

Tom Keane went to town, too

By merlinmurph on Wed, 05/19/2010 - 9:42am.

In the Sunday Globe Magazine, Tom Keane teed off on the city council saying this is a good time to earn their pay - $87,500.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/article...

Political?

By David W. on Wed, 05/19/2010 - 1:39pm.

I'm not sure I see what's so "political" about an opinion columnist writing multiple columns on a topic of particular importance to its readership. Is it the phone number? Maybe that's unusual, but other than that it seems to me very much in keeping with what they've done in columns about pension reform and related topics: they've (rightly in my opinion) called the governing bodies - the BCC or the legislature - to account for pandering to politically powerful interest groups. I'm almost sure that some of the pension/transportation reform columns and editorials ended with some variant of "contact your representative or senator if you want action on this." What Lehigh did today and in the previous column seems no different.

Yes- basically the phone number.

By Dan Farnkoff on Wed, 05/19/2010 - 2:15pm.

Another columnist did the same thing, about the same issue, about a week ago. Can't remember it being done before, on health care, gay marriage, local libraries, or anything. It's unusual.