Talk:Concord, New Hampshire

"Mayor"?

BTW: Whomever put the Mayor information, is totally inaccurate. That mayor isn't the mayor of Concord. And Concord doesn't even have a mayor! I checked the City's website and my gut was right the City runs on a manager/council form of government. Concord's population is 3rd in New Hampshire, if I have my facts straight, and its much smaller than Manchester or Nashua and its close to a size of population of a large Southern New Hampshire town, probably giving away that they have a Manager than a Mayor. The City Manager is Thomas J. Aspell, Jr. I tried going to the edit page, but I couldn't find the mayor, I'm betting it was the template prohibiting me to edit it. If someone reads this, please change as soon as you can. Steven312 22:52, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

EDIT: I found it, just had to look harder, now the updated info about the City Manager now shows on the infobox. Steven312 22:55, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Concord does have a mayor, in fact he hired Mr. Aspell as city manager, in fact. Info box should be reverted. Bcarlson33 01:02, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

I know what a Mayor and City Manager is, so I do not need a crash course. For many years, I always knew that there wasn't a mayor in Concord. My town manager in my S. NH town also said that there was a council/manager and it was more like a town form of government in the about a year or two ago. And, I also checked the official city government website, and there was no direct page for the mayor, leading in my belief there wasn't a mayor. If the Monitor is accurate, I stand corrected, I apolgize for my error. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Steven312 (talk • contribs) 21:43, June 17, 2006 (UTC)

The City of Concord has a City Council form of government, with the Mayor being the head of the Council but only the honorary head of the city. The true "chief administrative office" of the city is the City Manager persuant to section 21 of the City Charter. --Assawyer 05:02, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

NHIS in the first paragraph?

Is it really necessary to mention New Hampshire International Speedway in the first paragraph? I don't think this is one of the main things someone needs to know about Concord. I can see moving it to the sites of interest area.--ColForbin 01:59, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

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Map

Rcsprinter123 (Talk), what was the purpose of replacing the map image with the one you provided? Steve Lux, Jr. (talk) 19:27, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

I'm replacing them all with the SVG version which is standard throughout the United States and more easily editable in case of a boundary change or something. It also is higher resolution and uses the standard colour scheme. Rcsprinter₁₂₃ (chinwag) @ 19:30, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Rcsprinter123 (Talk), excellent! I appreciate your response and assistance with my confusion. Steve Lux, Jr. (talk) 19:33, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Official demonym?

I forget, do we have an official demonym here in Concord? Is it "Concordians"? "Concordites"? "Concorders"? So far I've just been doing without a single-word demonym and just writing "Concord residents" when this has come up elsewhere... Also, Googling isn't very helpful... Cooljeanius (talk) (contribs) 22:41, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Pronunciation

Pronunciation is given as /ˈkɒn.kərd/. Is it really different from Concord, Massachusetts, which is pronounced /ˈkɒŋ.kərd/? --Macrakis (talk) 19:53, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

I think you're right, but the Mass. Concord's pronunciation isn't listed in its article. --Ken Gallager (talk) 12:33, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

Nevermind, I had searched on "IPA" and didn't find it, but it's there. --Ken Gallager (talk) 12:36, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

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the city’s website states that its charter is Council-Manager, not Mayor-Council. Qwirkle (talk) 16:02, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Nickname

“Capital City” seems a simple descriptive rather than a nickname, and the same (primary, mind you) source now uses “Capitol”. See here. Qwirkle (talk) 00:59, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

I agree. That also runs into the problem that way too many organizations spell it "Capitol", as the Nevers Band now does. The city's website doesn't prominently list a nickname anywhere. I'm also not aware of one used regularly by the Concord Monitor. Other nicknames such as "NH's Main Street" (on Wikipedia's list of nicknames), "The Racing Capital", and "City in a Coma", either are no longer used or were never really used in the first place. --Ken Gallager (talk) 13:17, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

"City in a Coma"???? Awesome! - DavidWBrooks (talk) 13:54, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

For instance, here. --Ken Gallager (talk) 18:32, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Yes, googling found many references to it - although they all implied that somebody else had used the phrase, no actual usage that I could find. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 19:18, 18 May 2020 (UTC)