Thursday, June 20, 2013
He is one of five official school committee candidates so far. More than a handful have qualified on the city side.
School Committee chair Michael Tyler has officially qualified to run for re-election. Tyler was certified by the Attleboro elections department on Tuesday. He is the fifth school committe candidate to qualify for the ballot and the first in Ward 6. Stacey Haven also pulled papers in Ward 6 in April but has yet to qualify for the ballot. Ward 3 candidates Jessica Bessell and Stephen Withers have also qualified, as have Brenda Furtado and Lori Scales in Ward 4. In addition to the five candidates to qualify, 18 others have pulled papers in the school committee election including eight at large candidates (the top three get spots). At Large: David Murphy, James Stors, Mariann Crisafulli, Barbara Craw, Nancy Lamothe, Stacey Haven, Sarah Curtis…
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Richard Heos will represent the Twelve Visions Party.
Massachusetts goes to the polls to choose its next U.S. senator on June 25. Democratic candidate Edward Markey and Republican candidate Gabriel Gomez are looking to fill the seat vacated by John Kerry, who became Secretary of State in the Obama Adminstration, but there is a third person also on the ballot -- Richard Heos, a Woburn resident who is representing the Twelve Visions Party. After serving in the U.S. Navy, the 66-year-old currently is self-employed and serves as an official in local area youth sports leagues. Although Heos is a longshot, he is no stranger to politics, volunteering in several Republican organizations over the years as well as running for Mayor of Woburn in 1991. "This race is similar in a way; I lost that one by…
The $119 Million FY14 budget presented by Mayor Kevin Dumas was up for discussion Tuesday night.
Attleboro special education teacher Amy Luyendyk held up her classroom's history textbook to the city council Tuesday night and turned to a chapter at the end of the book called "Modern Problems." On that page was a picture of Richard Nixon. "This is the history book that my students are using," she told the council. She said she has four for the 15 students in the class. Luyendyk's sentiments were echoed by a long line of educators, parents and residents who turned out to the council chambers to show their opposition to a $119 Million Fiscal Year 2014 budget presented by Mayor Kevin Dumas. City Councilors, who heard arguments for and against the budget, cannot add money. The council can only cut and make recommendations. Dumas' budget …
The U.S. Senate candidates have one week to go before voters head to the polls.
Gabriel Gomez and Edward Markey spent their final debate before next week's U.S. Senate special election clashing over their records and who has the better vision for both their commonwealth and their country. The debate, taped in Boston, broadcast on several local networks and moderated by veteran city newsman and Boston University professor R.D. Sahl, was the last of three contests before voters head to the polls to fill U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's former seat. No matter the issue, be it taxes, gun control, abortion, national security and their own personal and professional histories, the two men found disagreements at every turn. Each candidate could agree on one thing: they believe the other candidate's ideas are "old and …
Monday, June 17, 2013
Debate to air on WCVB Tuesday at 7 p.m.
Another U.S. Senate election for Massachusetts is drawing to a close, with the two combatants set to square off one final time before voters head to the polls June 25. Democratic Congressman Edward Markey of Malden and Republican businessman and former U.S. Navy SEAL Gabriel Gomez will hold the last of three debates Tuesday evening in the race to fill the seat formerly held by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. The debate will air live from 7 to 8 p.m. on WCVB (Channel 5). The debate will be moderated by R.D. Sahl of Boston University. The two previous debates for the candidates were held in Boston and Springfield. Recent polling has suggested an edge for Markey in the race. Both candidates have received visits from high-profile …
Ward 5 school committee incumbent Frances Zito pulled election papers last week.
This fall's Ward 3 school committee election just got more competitive. Local lawyer Stephen K. Withers Jr. was certified for the ballot by the Attleboro elections department last week. He joins Jessica A. Bessell, who was certified last month. Ward 3 incumbent Chris O'Neil also pulled papers but has not been certified. Ward 4 candidates Brenda Furtado and Lori Scales are the only other school committee candidates to qualify for the ballot so far. Aside from Withers' certification, the only other news from the Attleboro elections department this month comes from Ward 5 school committee incumbent Frances M. Zito, who pulled papers on June 13. Now an official candidate, Withers responded to an email from Attleboro Patch with some basic …
Saturday, June 15, 2013
If the special election was today, who would you choose as our new U.S. senator?
A week from Tuesday, Massachusetts voters will decide who to elect in the special election to fill the seat vacated by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. What we at Patch want to know is - if the election was today - who would you vote for? Candidates Democrat Ed Markey and Republican Gabriel Gomez have been pullling out all the stops in the last two weeks as the latest polls show the gap is narrowing between the two. After weeks of relative quiet, the negative ads have started to clog the airways and both candidates have had high-profile folks stumping for them. Rudy Guiliani was in town last week putting his support behind Gomez and President Obama came to Boston this week showing his support for Markey. So tell us, if you had to …
Recap and analysis of the week in state government.
His was not the story of Deval Patrick, or Mitt Romney or Bill Weld. Argeo Paul Cellucci started local on the Board of Selectmen in his beloved town of Hudson and worked his way up: state representative, state senator, lieutenant governor, governor, ambassador. He was the Calvin Coolidge of his time, according to former Minority Leader Richard Tisei, and Democrats, Republicans and Canadians, alike, loved and respected him for it. Cellucci passed away last weekend after a battle with Lou Gehrig's disease at the age of 65, and on Thursday he became the 13th public figure to lie in state under the State House rotunda. The memorial service and public viewing for the former governor drew a who's-who to Beacon Hill, including Romney, Michael …
Friday, June 14, 2013
Patch offers mosquito prevention tips, and the map below shows the number of West Nile cases last summer.
After a particularly tough year for the West Nile virus in 2012, Massachusetts health officials are bracing for what could be another busy summer for the mosquito-borne illness. Although, with so many factors playing into the problem, the track of West Nile is not an easy one to predict, said Kevin Cranston, director of the Bureau of Infectious Disease for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. “We can’t pin down all of the elements that go into why one season is bad and another season is not,” Cranston said. But if this summer is similar to last summer—marked by extended periods of very hot weather—some parts of the state could see a high number of cases as occurred in 2012. To give residents a sense of West Nile’s prevalence in …
Thursday, June 13, 2013
President appears at Markey campaign event at Reggie Lewis Track & Athletic Center in Roxbury.
President Barack Obama made a trip to Boston Wednesday to stump for Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Edward Markey as the special election to fill John Kerry's former seat nears. According to White House press pool reports, Obama appeared at the Reggie Lewis Track & Athletic Center in Roxbury an attempted to get a crowd of Markey supporters fired up and ready to go. Obama said "too many folks in Washington who are putting the next election ahead of the next generation" but that Markey, a Malden Democratic congressman since 1976, would be part of the process to change that. "I need folks in the Unites States Senate who wake up every day thinking about the folks who sent them there ... I need Ed Markey in the United States Senate," Obama …
paul
12:37 pm on Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Wow, this really makes the race interesting. News of another Republican that no one ever heard of will certainly send millions to the polls on Tuesday. I like his plan to end welfare, unfortunately for him, half the voters in Massachusetts are getting some sort of entitlement. more ›