Charter Review Commission

If Question 1 is approved by the voters, efforts are likely to be made by good government forces to advance the effective date of the two-term limit to 2013.

The leaders of the Charter Commission did not understand what the struggle was really about: the popular will and the necessity to resist retrograde attempts to subvert it or postpone it into oblivion.

The developer of the massive New Domino development on the Williamsburg waterfront agreed to a number of provisions to ensure the project's approval by the City Council -- but they aren't legally enforceable.

But while the call for localism before the Charter Review Commission is a seductive one given the state of the city, in the end I think it really boils down to a cheap kind of populism.