As if he didn’t have enough on his plate these days, it appears Gov. Patrick is gunning for MBTA general manager Dan Grabauskas.
The Ipswich resident has done a creditable job with what is one of the most-difficult-to-manage transit agencies in the country. But he’s a Republican, and worse, one who speaks his mind.
Nor does he [...]
Archive for July, 2009
During his May 21 appearance at Marblehead High School, Gov. Patrick raised many eyebrows with his sly statement that there would be major news regarding the future of Salem Harbor Station within “a couple of weeks.”
Insiders said the governor was premature in his announcement, but there have been hints that some kind of deal was [...]
Though her city would arguably be one of the major beneficiaries, yet has done relatively little to advance the project, Gloucester Mayor Carolyn Kirk continues to make life difficult for those advocating the establishment of a new, regional vocational school.
The Gloucester Daily Times reports today that Kirk is trying to enlist her colleagues from Salem, [...]
Spotted Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll’s name in in Tuesday’s edition of USA Today.
She was among 450 municipal chief executives from throughout the country (other locals included the mayors of Amesbury, Newburyport and Lawrence) who signed onto a full-page ad urging the U.S. Senate to reject an amendment that would make licenses to carry a concealed [...]
Here’s perhaps the single most important ingredient that made Salem chief Bob St. Pierre’s police department different from so many others:
In Salem if a police officer gets into trouble, he or she knows there are going to be consequences. In too many other departments, if an officer gets out of line, the first instinct on [...]
Locals who watched Tom Watson’s heartbreaking loss at the British Open today may have recognized the man on his bag.
Caddie Neil Oxman was a former staffer to former Senate President Kevin Harrington of Salem and has many friends in local Democratic circles. He was among those in attendance at Harrington’s funeral at Immaculate Conception Church [...]
Look for a major announcement this week involving a top-ranking Salem city official.
And sources say the scandal involving Lawrence schools Supt. Wilfredo Laboy will widen. Laboy is currently on suspension for allegations involving the misuse of his office. (But this being Massachusetts, is still being paid his $200,000-a-year salary.)
And if you think this is [...]
Try living in Arizona, where the Legislature and governor are still wrangling over the budget and no one knows how schools are going to be funded this fall. Yet lawmakers still managed to pass bills restricting teens’ access to abortion services, giving citizens the right to carry concealed weapons into bars, and placing the onus [...]
There’s a fight brewing between the Driscoll administation and some members of the Salem City Council as to just how far the city should go to accommodate the Tavern in the Square folks.
The city’s newest dining and drinking establishment in the old Salem Evening News building has drawn lots of customers, but also stirred some [...]
Harvard Pilgrim CEO Charles Baker’s decision to enter the gubernatorial sweepstakes today is another indicator of the incumbent’s vulnerability in 2010.
The former Swampscott selectman had seemed hesitant about making a run while speaking at a MassINC forum in downtown Boston this past March. But the state’s budget woes no doubt have many would-be candidates smelling [...]
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