They came to ban personal attacks, threats or innuendos and the discussion all but devolved into personal attacks, threats and innuendos.

Tuesday’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting had everything: Manchester residents outraged about pickles, cockroaches and teaching diversity, equity and inclusion in schools; a call to suspend the superintendent of schools without pay; verbal jabs at the mayor for “silencing” free speech, and aldermen yelling over each other while discussing having a more civilized political discourse.

By the end, aldermen had a new chairman — Norm Vincent — and instructed city officials to draft language to update the board’s rules of decorum. It wasn’t quite a full-circle conclusion, but Manchester Mayor Jay Ruais said he hopes elected officials can move forward wit

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