The Globe reports Boston Fire Commissioner Rod Fraser is resigning next month for work in the private sector.
Incoming Mayor Marty Walsh will also get to pick a new police commissioner and a new school superintendent.
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Good, I guess
By anon
Tue, 12/17/2013 - 10:54am
At least Walsh will be able to show us what he intends to do to/for/with the city with his appointments, right off the bat.
If he bones it all up, there will be ample time for someone better plan to run against him. If he was the right guy for the job, then he'll get to immediately implement some needed changes to the fossilized Menino machine.
As it should be.
By plt3012
Tue, 12/17/2013 - 11:10am
Clean house. All department heads should resign. If Mayor-elect Walsh decides to keep any of them, so be it. This is now his job to run the city. If he does a good job, that's great. If he doesn't and we see some of the same old stuff like the BRA ignoring the citizens, then he is accountable for that.
Why should he clean house?
By Pete Nice
Tue, 12/17/2013 - 11:12am
Just because the department heads are political appointments? These should be jobs based on merit. If the BRA leader is ignoring people, then fire him. But why fire everyone?
Merit you say
By anon
Tue, 12/17/2013 - 11:28am
Similar to most of our "National Searches."
Known vs. Unknown
By Pete Nice
Tue, 12/17/2013 - 12:54pm
Hasn't Boston recently had a School Superintendent and Fire Chief from a National Search?
Politics is always going to play a part, but regardless of what many people think, most municipal employees who work their way up the ladder do it based on merit, not politics.
Well
By anon
Tue, 12/17/2013 - 1:48pm
And other factors, such as racial quotas.
And as you can tell they've
By TheVanJones
Tue, 12/17/2013 - 6:15pm
And as you can tell they've done a super good job having a gov't that reflects a minority majority city.,,,,pssh
Could be worse
By Kaz
Tue, 12/17/2013 - 1:42pm
Someone could have gifted him Mitt's binders full of women to choose from.
Yep
By Stevil
Tue, 12/17/2013 - 2:20pm
Apparently he had resumes from all 50 states - plus the other 7 that Obama said he visited during his first campaign for president.
Enjoy the veal
By Rob
Tue, 12/17/2013 - 3:08pm
Enjoy the veal
Hope he 'll be ready...
By Anon
Tue, 12/17/2013 - 12:54pm
Does he have a chief of staff yet?
Marty should can them all.
By George W.
Tue, 12/17/2013 - 2:23pm
These leftover Menino-oids should be purged and their faces printed on decks of playing cards, just like when we got rid of the dictator Saddam Hussein and all his henchmen.
Commissions, Committees, Blue Ribbon Panels, etc.
By theszak
Tue, 12/17/2013 - 3:03pm
New complete listings on the web of Commissions, Committees, Blue Ribbon Panels, etc. are needed with addresses for email. A while back Boston City Council staffer Lincoln Smith compiled a list.
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