Maybe it’s the weather — cold and wet all week — or just a case of the post-Memorial Day blues.
But the mood was particularly downcast this week from the Statehouse to the barbershop.
The tax increase Senate and House leaders are contemplating won’t be nearly enough to meet the state’s needs, yet legislators who voted for [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Gov. Patrick may already be regretting the cryptic comment he made at Thursday night’s meeting in Marblehead regarding the future of the Salem power plant.
The gaggle of plant critics in attendance may have taken his remarks to mean the facility’s days are numbered. But my information is that negotiations are underway to convert at [...]
Monday’s editorial advocating a tribute to the Salem-Monopoly connection (see below) as part of the Salem Jail redevelopment has received some good response.
One person with ties to the Parker family whose games-manufacturing plant was located across from the jail, writes as follows:
Parker Brothers games have an historic, multi-generational familiarity that would give such an
attraction near-universal [...]
Given his performance during this spring’s interminable budget debate, don’t be surprised if Peabody schools Supt. Milton Burnett fails to receive a pay raise this year.
The man who is supposed to be in charge of the school system now wants to establish focus groups to help him select a new principal for the Higgins Middle [...]
Peabody voters might ask themselves why there’s plenty of parking on Main Street, while right next door in downtown Salem all the garages and off-street lots can’t accommodate the number of people doing business there.
Could it be that in the Witch City investment in the downtown is viewed as a good thing, while among certain [...]
Controversy continues to rage within local political and law-enforcement circles over the wisdom of setting up a regional emergency dispatch center.
Danvers Selectman Keith Lucy has made it his personal mission to scuttle plans for a countywide facility based at the sheriff’s headquarters in Middleton. He’d prefer something on a smaller scale involving his and perhaps [...]
Budget woes and an accident on the Green Line are helping speed reform in the Bay State
House Speaker Robert DeLeo weighs in with a defense of his members’ reform initiatives on the oped page of today’s Globe.
“Please believe us. We’re really, really trying,” is the theme of DeLeo’s piece, which is in much in the [...]
Who knew that a Democratic governor would turn out to be the Democratic Legislature’s worst nightmare.
But Deval Patrick’s “reform before revenues” mantra might have some Senate and House leaders wishing it had been Beverly’s Kerry Healey who was elected to succeed Mitt Romney in 2006.
Hear Deval’s May 1 remarks here:
It’s harder for Senate President Murray, [...]
ONE Massachusetts, a group representing various social-service agencies, and the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, are among those who have voiced support for the sales-tax increase approved by the House of Representatives this week.
Others are not so enthusiastic. Citizens for Limited Taxation has vowed to work against the re-election of those 108 legislators who voted in [...]
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Nelson Benton is editorial page editor of The Salem News. Over the past four decades he has covered all the cities and towns of the North Shore, as well as the Statehouse. His political column appears every Friday on the Opinion page. Categories
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