Eager Politicians Eye Casino Pot O’ Gold
With the date drawing closer to a referendum on any proposed casino in Springfield, the City Council’s self-anointed Casino Site Committee heard from casino consultant Shefsky & Froelich Inc. last week on how best to allocate Host Agreement funding for community investments. According to a story in the Republican by Jack Flynn, Shefsky & Froelich [...]
Last month Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno proposed lowering the city’s qualifying standard for hiring a fire commissioner as he sought to place current acting Commissioner Joseph Conant into the job permanently. This past week, he followed that up by asking the Springfield City Council to change the city’s ordinance to accommodate him. The current standard [...]
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Who says there are no witches around in modern-day Massachusetts? Apparently, we do have at least one – and she can cast some pretty wicked spells, too. This past week voters went to the polls and cast their ballots for the one candidate who has consistently shown she is willing to say anything to polish [...]
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THE TORTURE IS ALMOST OVER Well, thank God it’s finally almost over. There should be a law in this country regarding campaigning: Candidates should only be allowed to campaign in the six months prior to the election. This “election season” actually spanned the past couple of years. And so on the 6th we’ll all have [...]
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Mike Franco is a candidate for the 8th District seat of the Massachusetts Governor’s Council, the only region-wide District race in 2012. Born in Springfield and currently residing in Holyoke, Franco earned a bachelor’s degree from Westfield State University and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Texas. Franco served 23 years in [...]
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With his victory in the September primary earlier this month, former Springfield Mayor Mike Albano has re-inserted himself into the region’s political landscape as the Democratic candidate for the 8th District Governor’s Council seat. That Albano managed to pull off a win against a well-known and respected rival in candidate Kevin Sullivan was more than [...]
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The media narrative that features nervous Democratic pols, activists, and consultants wringing their hands about Elizabeth Warren’s supposed campaign inadequacies has another entry. Dan Payne, a political commentator at WBUR radio in Boston recently published a column on the station’s web site called “What’s Wrong with the Warren Campaign.” In it, he clearly and cogently [...]
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