{"id":2642,"date":"2010-08-27T17:20:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T23:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2010-08-27T17:21:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T23:21:10","slug":"the-boulder-reporter-how-boulder-is-governed-time-for-a-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=2642","title":{"rendered":"Boulder Reporter | How Boulder is governed: time for a change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/boulderreporter.com\/how-boulder-is-governed-time-for-a-change\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/boulder-municipal-building-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>For 92 years Boulder\u2019s municipal government has operated under the  strong-City Manager, weak-City Council system. I believe it is time to  consider alternatives to the current form of our local government.<\/p>\n<p>In 1918 Boulder joined a growing collection of primarily small cities  and towns seeking to \u201creform\u201d local government. Staunton, Va., was the  first town to make the change in 1908, followed by Sumter, S.C., in 1912  and Dayton, Ohio, in 1914. The City Manager movement was primarily  initiated by business and civic interests concerned about the growing  influence of minorities and immigrants on municipal governments. They  sought to take local government out of \u201cundesirable hands\u201d and give to  \u201csafer,\u201d more business-oriented officials.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article at the Boulder Reporter:\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/boulderreporter.com\/how-boulder-is-governed-time-for-a-change\/\">How Boulder is governed: time for a change?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 92 years Boulder\u2019s municipal government has operated under the strong-City Manager, weak-City Council system. I believe it is time to consider alternatives to the current form of our local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[11,13,14],"class_list":["post-2642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-articles","tag-city-council","tag-district","tag-mayor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2649,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions\/2649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}