Word: aldermen
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...efforts did not go unnoticed. When Thomas Taylor was elected to the Somerville Board of Aldermen in the fall of 1986, he appointed Gay to fill the School Committee seat he had left open. The Board of Aldermen unanimously approved this appointment...
...mayoral race features city Aldermen John Buonomo and Joe Curtatone, in addition to Dorothy Kelly Gay, a former member of the Governor's Council...
...January, he became interim president of theboard of aldermen, a promotion many criticized himfor accepting because it might give him an unfairadvantage in the election...
...used to the sentiment. In 1980, still a Yale undergrad, he won a seat on the New Haven, Conn., board of aldermen and quickly took on two sacred cows: black organizations using city money to develop minority-owned firms. Williams thought they were spending the money inefficiently, and he sponsored a bill to cut them loose. Later, as an official with the Boston Redevelopment Authority, Williams worked to bring developers into struggling neighborhoods--neighborhoods sometimes suspicious of a bean counter wearing a bow tie. (Williams adopted the bow tie because he liked the look of a couple of Nation...
...Somerville, both the mayor and 11 aldermen,Somerville's version of city councilors, arepopularly elected...