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...addition to chairing the City Council meetings, the mayor serves as chair and as a seventh vote on the School Committee...
...ready to vote as often as I need to until we as a group can choose a mayor,” said council member Sam Seidel at that first meeting. “It’s going to take a lot more talking, and some more cups of coffee...
Decker’s impassioned speech accompanied her motion to move the vote for the city’s next mayor to the top of the agenda...
...remedy these issues, McGovern says that the School Committee should have a vote in the selection of the mayor, or it should choose a chair from any of its seven members in a selection process independent of the vote for mayor...
President Barack H. Obama made good on his health-care reform promise, while Republicans likewise made good on less constructive aspirations to delay it—a debate that we commented on with equal parts optimism and skepticism. The House of Representatives 220-215 vote represented a bittersweet victory, moving sweeping health-care legislation forward at the necessary cost of the unjust Stupak Amendment. The national debate reached fever pitch and the bill seemed doomed as it stalled for months in Congress, prompting us to take up a call for legislative reconciliation despite criticism from Republicans who, hypocritically, have historically...