Nation IN BRIEF : MASSACHUSETTS : Boston Mayor Offers Advisers to Bush

Boston Mayor Raymond L. Flynn offered to send a contingent of mayors to the White House to brief President Bush on how to tackle the nation’s ills. As the newly elected head of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Flynn proposed a meeting between the President and a group of mayors to help Bush devise “a national strategy for economic competitiveness and growth.” Flynn convenes a national meeting of mayors this week in Cape Cod, Mass. The mayors would offer Bush constructive proposals, not a “laundry list of all the ills of American society,” Flynn said in an interview.