Arty photo that makes me look trendy and coolI’ll be playing at the Flat Iron Cafe on Saturday, March 27 2010 from 7:30 to 10:30. Please try and make it. The last gig was a lot of fun with a great turn out. If you have a limited time window, or tolerance for listening, come a little later si ...
This week’s Middleboro Gazette column concerns health care for town employees. The increase in costs for these plans mostly exceed our increase in revenues and are a big part of the reason for the deficits in recent and coming years.
The column draws heavily from information in the recent Se ...
Senator Marc Pacheco came to the Middleboro Board of Selectmen meeting on 3/8/2010 to answer charges that his legislation was intentionally leaving Middleboro out of the running for a casino. Pacheco went so far as to say that anyone who says such a thing is lying.
Strong words.
Here are my issue ...
I haven’t watched all of it yet, but the Enterprise has a short article about a discussion at last night’s BOS meeting regarding a proposal to to swap four parcels of town-owned land for the St. Luke’s Hospital property in downtown Middleboro . There has been talk of using the sit ...
Warning: The following post may contain techno-babble
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Control panel entrySince moving my blog from blogger to hosting it myself using wordpress, I’ve done a fair bit of monkeying around with the format and features. The goal of course is to have an attractive site, that’s easy to main ...
Cedric Cromwell - thoughtful pose number 3On your average day, I get up with no particular thought about what, or even if, I’ll post on my blog. I read my email which includes a handful of google alerts. By the way – if you have google alerts for yourself, you are probably a socio-pa ...
The Middleboro ca-bingo emporium and 5 star albatross around my town’s neck continues to bubble up in the news – most recently in reports about DeLeo’s casino plan. Let’s look at a couple of cherry-picked facts in no particular order to set the mood before I talk about DeLeo ...
This Blog and the Comments attached are often full of anger directed at Town Officials and Town Employees. People are questioning salaries, benefits, and job performance. Sometimes the complaints extend beyond Middleboro to state and occasionally federal officials. The comments will often make no ...
Something I’ve been meaning to write about – a Rhode Island high school that is threatening to fire every teacher in an under-performing school. The superintendent wanted longer school days and the teacher’s union refused without financial incentives. The school board voted 5-2 ...
This Globe column has me wondering if Middleboro BOS chairman Pat Rogers is starting to have an “aha” moment about the prospects for the Middleboro casino and the slim chance that it will move forward:
“They said they needed time to get their house in order, and we gave them that,’†...
It's not a casino - it's magicI want to sell you a Magic Widget. It’s terrific and I’ll make a huge profit it on it. You’re not really convinced so I’m going to pay your friends and employers money to help convince you that you need to buy the Magic Widget. What’s th ...
Dan Kennedy has chimed in on the Murphy articles about the cost of healthcare for local goverments. Check out his post.
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Rising costs strain local budgetsKevin Cook drew my attention to this Globe article about the skyrocketing costs for the generous health care benefits that cities and towns provide their employees. The article characterizes municipal plans as far more generous than those in the private sector. Lac ...
This just in from the “Nice Gesture” department. Citing local budget problems, Middleboro Town Manager Charles Cristello refused to accept his yearly salary increase at the Middleboro Board of Selectmen meeting of 2/22/2010. This is partially related to my last post about Middleboro s ...
I got this communication from a person who wishes to remain anonymous. This is not the first time I’ve heard complaints about the top-dollar salaries Middleboro pays some of it’s department heads.
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Is this person right? ….. Discuss
I need to vent so what better place.
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February 25th, 2010
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Mark and I have had countless conversations about blog writing over the past few years we have formed our friendship. He has always wanted me to start my own website and get a blog going. I have been hesitant and not really sure I wanted to commit to something along those lines. His latest and gr ...
At the Middleboro BOS meeting of 2/22/2010, Town Manager Cristello read a draft letter to be sent to the Mashpee Wampanaog about recent news reports that the tribe was looking to ditch the Middleboro casino in favor of a more Mass-friendly location like Fall River.
The first video contains a lengthy ...
From the Middleboro Board of Selectmen meeting of 2/22/2010 – town manager Charles Cristello reads the draft of a letter to the Mashpee Wampanoag. The letter is prompted by reports that the tribe has been fishing around the Freetown/Fall River area for a new casino location. It’s prett ...
I’ve been critical of Scott Brown – I find his record to be indicative of someone who leans far right. I also expected that his rush to be certified was actually a rush to oppose anything and everything proposed by President Obama.
In the jobs bill at least, Scott Brown was one of onl ...
Gladys Kravitz at BOS meetingWrite your US Representative and Senators to lodge your opposition to pending legislation that could provide the dreaded Carcieri fix. This could potentially allow the Secretary of the Interior (SOI) to take land into trust on behalf of the Mashpee Wampanaog for a casin ...
Hyper-spin meister Bill O’Reilly somehow manages to sound reasonable and pitches a bunch of moderate softballs to Sarah Palin – who fails to hit a single pitch. Palin shows a stunning inability to recognize and discuss the core point that O’Reilly is trying to make – that th ...
Interesting Globe article about a Wampanoag tribal member who sent a letter in support of Cape Wind and called the Mashpee/Aquinna opposition a “fabricated cosmology”. Remember that the Mashpee and Aquinnah Wampanoag, who have no issue with mega-casinos, are opposing Cape Wind on the g ...
Rep. Tom Calter On January 29, 2010, I sent this email to MA State Representative Tom Calter
As a Middleboro resident, one of the best alternative energy sources – windmills – is not feasible for me due to the low average wind speeds.
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Before Rep. Bosely was removed as chairman of the J ...
Photo from Peter Sgro's facebook pageFrom the Enterprise:
A familiar face will no longer be showing up at many local events. Peter J. Sgro Jr., 61, died suddenly at his home on Tuesday morning.
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Sgro retired from the Water Department in 2005 and took up freelance photography as a hobby. He chronic ...
As a new dog owner, I’ve been watching The Dog Whisperer and have to say I like the show. Host Cesar Millan focuses on a dog’s pack mentality to exert dominance over the dogs. In this Boston Globe article a number of animal trainers and behaviorists are taking issue with Millan’s ...
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