Word out of Salem City Hall is that the Health Board’s choice for a new director, Dr. Paul Etkind of Milton, has said he’s not interested in the job after all.
That may revive discussions between Salem and Peabody regarding a joint health agency headed by the latter’s well-regarded health director, Sharon Cameron. We’ll see.
It’s likely [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Gov. Patrick must be having second, if not third, fourth and fifth thoughts these days about having proposed state Sen. Marian Walsh to a high position with the Massachusetts Health and Education Facilities Authority.
It might have seemed to be a good idea at the time | rewarding an early supporter eager to leave the Senate, [...]
Regarding those job numbers thrown out by Congressman Tierney at his stimulus forum at Salem State Friday, there was this from The Associated Press:
BOSTON (AP) — State officials overseeing the federal economic stimulus program in Massachusetts say they have no idea how the White House came up with one key pledge — the promise to [...]
There’s a big crowd at Salem State’s Bertolon School of Business today where representatives of federal and state agencies are holding forth on how cities, towns and nonprofits might take advantage of the billions headed the state’s way courtesy of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act.
Organizers in U.S. Rep. John Tierney’s office thought they might [...]
Jim Gilbert, a well-known local attorney and former assistant city solicitor in Salem, is headed to Washington.
He’s been appointed a federal administrative law judge and his first assignment will be sitting on cases involving the U.S. Postal Service.
Currently with the law firm of Tinti, Quinn, Grover & Frey, he’ll be taking the oath of office [...]
It’s been a rocky couple of weeks for Gov. Deval Patrick, and hard evidence of his waning popularity came in last night’s Suffolk University/7 News poll in which 49 percent of the respondents said they disapproved of the job he’s doing (vs. 40 percent who approve).
Despite the billions pouring into the state via President Obama’s [...]
The enhanced clout bestowed on the region by new House Speaker Robert DeLeo may be starting to pay dividends.
Officials in Beverly have been trying to get special legislation passed allowing two new liquor licenses — one for the American Barbecue restaurant at the Cummings Center and the other for the Black Cow proposed for the [...]
This may be one year legislators actually earn those automatic pay raises.
There’s ethics and pension reform, transportation financing, and huge budget deficits on the agenda for this spring, and the latter two must be dealt with by June 30 or the commonwealth will find itself in dire financial straits.
Rep. Mary Grant, D-Beverly, said revenue projections [...]
As of noontime the Dow Jones industrial average was soaring.
Some say it reflects Wall Street’s enthusiasm over Treasury Secy. Tim Geithner’s plan to deal with toxic assets.
But maybe it had something to do with President Obama’s telling “60 Minutes” last night that he’d seen “flickers” of a turnaround recently. (And in the same interview made [...]
Transportation Secretary James Aloisi appears convinced, finally, that there will be no fixing the revenue gap affecting the state’s transportation agencies unless it is accompanied by significant reform.
Just two months into the job, Aloisi has generated more than his share of controversy, and there were even rumors last week that he was on the way [...]
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