Comments on: The New Boston Is Running, But Is It Voting? http://www.wbur.org/2009/08/26/at-large-city-council WBUR is Boston's NPR News Station, featuring NPR news and programs such as Car Talk, On Point, Here & Now, Only A Game and Radio Boston. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: JonT http://www.wbur.org/2009/08/26/at-large-city-council/comment-page-1#comment-1393 JonT Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:18:19 +0000 http://www.wbur.org/?p=5886#comment-1393 I'd like to see more stories that will actually help me decide who to vote for. I don't care if the candidate is a Martian, as long as he/she/it is competent and has a reasonable position on the issues! I’d like to see more stories that will actually help me decide who to vote for. I don’t care if the candidate is a Martian, as long as he/she/it is competent and has a reasonable position on the issues!

]]> By: Jan D http://www.wbur.org/2009/08/26/at-large-city-council/comment-page-1#comment-1383 Jan D Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:45:21 +0000 http://www.wbur.org/?p=5886#comment-1383 As long as the people living in Boston are not citizens, or do not register to vote the city will be run buy those who want to run it. I was raised to understand that voting is important, is a duty the price I pay for living in this great city. I guess that makes me part of old Boston, my family has been here for many many generations. We all work hard, pay our taxes own homes and vote. New Boston is as shown in this article, made up of non citizens (many illegal) not voting people. If they are uninterested in helping to run the city, in helping to improve the city. Well are we the Old Boston suppose to step aside? Should we also stop caring about this great city? The neighborhoods of Beacon Hill and Commonwealth Avenue are still affluent but have low voter. The people who live in those areas have no interest in staying in Boston, they don't set down roots in the city. Much like someone who moves to Boston and never learns the language, they have no interest in Boston, not the Old and certainly not the New. This article reads as a suggestion that Old Boston should step aside for the New Boston. Well I have yet to see much proof that New Boston much cares about taking care of the city. So it's up to Old Boston to continue caring for the city. Stop telling Old Boston to step aside. Tell New Boston to step up. And if they prove themselves to be good caretakers they can share this great city. As long as the people living in Boston are not citizens, or do not register to vote the city will be run buy those who want to run it. I was raised to understand that voting is important, is a duty the price I pay for living in this great city.

I guess that makes me part of old Boston, my family has been here for many many generations. We all work hard, pay our taxes own homes and vote. New Boston is as shown in this article, made up of non citizens (many illegal) not voting people. If they are uninterested in helping to run the city, in helping to improve the city.

Well are we the Old Boston suppose to step aside? Should we also stop caring about this great city? The neighborhoods of Beacon Hill and Commonwealth Avenue are still affluent but have low voter. The people who live in those areas have no interest in staying in Boston, they don’t set down roots in the city.

Much like someone who moves to Boston and never learns the language, they have no interest in Boston, not the Old and certainly not the New.

This article reads as a suggestion that Old Boston should step aside for the New Boston. Well I have yet to see much proof that New Boston much cares about taking care of the city. So it’s up to Old Boston to continue caring for the city.

Stop telling Old Boston to step aside. Tell New Boston to step up. And if they prove themselves to be good caretakers they can share this great city.

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