The Springfield Movie Plays On…
by Bill Dusty
The controversy over the springtime hiring of convicted felon Fred A. Swan to oversee development at an already scandal-plagued school is just the latest example of our city’s history of handing out jobs to (and looking out for) friends and relatives of the local power elite.
Check out my commentary over at Masslive.com:
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Posted by Bill Dusty
on Dec 8th, 2009 and filed under Latest Posts, Politics.
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This sad situation results from the same in-group, circle-the-wagons mentality that allowed the Urban League to get away with buying the newly renovated Mason Square Library building at a fire sale price with little public outcry from most people and most community leaders in Mason Square. In fact, many of them turned a blind eye while what had been a state of the art branch with a fine general collection and a special emphasis on works by and about Afro-Americans was reduced to resources and space more appropriate for a bookmobile. Protecting another agency was apparently more important to some than speaking up for first class library resources in their community.
What an embarrassment for law-abiding residents of Mason Square! It will certainly be a happy day when basic morality and common sense finally take the place of this dysfunctional way of doing things.
When will politicians and voters stop paying attention to the same old tarnished leadership which closes ranks with one another while their hands are still in the till? When will some real leadership emerge from Mason
Square?