If the Constitution could be drafted in one summer, surely we can make positive charter reforms in that same time.

The city can ask the Federal court for more time and delay voting on charter reform past November.

Yet there is a disagreement as to whether the charter reform will bring any real change.

For the Legislature, which was created in a charter reform four years ago, today's action had the feel of a coming of age.

Probably the charter reform might be more important than who's mayor.

But now, after charter reform, it has only 3 of 51 Council members.

Other critics, especially defenders of the public schools, dispute the very premise of charter reform.

The front of the card reads, "Vote on charter reform, now more important than ever."

They have been criticized as a shill for charter reform.

Some groups, like proponents of recycling and those who oppose charter reform, protest near City Hall.