More On Boston City Council.

In case you missed it, the Boston Herald editorial staff published an editorial last Thursday on the Boston City Council's announcement that it was examining the possibility of obtaining an exemption from the Massachusetts Open Meeting Law. Here is one quote of note from the piece:

The fact is that councilors, just like every other municipal official in Massachusetts, can meet privately for specific purposes - discussing strategy on union negotiations, for example. Of course, many local officials already hide behind that “executive session” veil improperly. So if anything the state’s Open Meeting Law ought to be strengthened, both to include the Legislature (which exempts itself from the law) and to punish those
who abuse it.