Another Big Win for Wal-Mart
Sorry, Wal-Mart, but this time you’re the bad guy. Doing business and conquering the retail world is one thing. Bankrupting a family already on the ropes – both financially and emotionally – just to prove a legal point is something else entirely. A CNN story reports that Wal-Mart sued a couple for health benefits it [...]
The End of Our Week
FITCHET GETS THE NOD: This past week saw the formal hiring of acting Police Commissioner William Fitchet, who now takes up the Commissioner’s role permanently. The Springfield Finance Control Board selected Fitchet by unanimous vote, 5-0, to take over from departed-but-hardly-forgotten former Police Commissioner Edward “Fast Eddie” Flynn, who moved on to Milwaukee, WI, and [...]
Local News & Tidbits: 03-26-08
PROM CONTEST DEADLINE LOOMS: Masslive sent forth the below announcement alerting anyone interested in its ongoing Prom Contest: Attention parents, educators, coaches, friends, media, everyone: It’s not too late to enter the MassLive.com Prom contest! If you know a student in Western Mass. who excels in his or her studies or gives back to the [...]
Casinos in MA: [Most] Bets Are Off
With the State House’s vote last week that sent Governor Deval Patrick’s casino gambling initiative into hibernation, the issue will remain in a holding pattern for the remainder of the year. Other alternatives, such as slot machine licensing at race tracks, will probably be explored in the meantime. And the Governor still plans to go [...]
Stebbins, Markey Co-Sponsor Ethics Ordinance
Springfield City Councilors Patrick Markey and Bruce Stebbins have teamed up to sponsor a new ethics ordinance “for city officials, department heads, and lobbyists.” In a press release dated March 22, Markey asserts that the primary objective of the ordinance is transparency in government. “Among other things,” he said in the release, “it requires that [...]
Mayor Set to Announce Anti-Gang Program
The Mayor’s Office issued a release this past Monday announcing a press conference set for Tuesday morning at 10:30 am to announce “the first anti-gang program of the Sarno Administration.” Mayoral aide Darryl Moss is quoted in the press release as saying that the Sarno Administration will not “stick its head in the sand” when [...]
Internet High Jinks
One of the downsides of being an independent blogger is that when your site goes down, it’s usually up to you – and you alone – to fix it. Sometimes that means just a phone call to your hosting company’s tech support. Other times it’s something simpler – like re-uploading an incorrectly published webpage or [...]
Commish Search Post Mortem
Surprise, surprise – there was no surprise. Despite persistent anonymous accusations of conspiratorial “fixes” in the selection of Springfield’s next police commissioner, no Mysterious Candidates ever emerged from the pack, and the only “certain” candidate who ever saw daylight was our own homeboy, William Fitchet. And so it was Fitchet, too, who eventually got the [...]
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