He’s just one of those guys who remembers when things worked better and wonders why they can’t work better again.
Author Archives: Jack Spillane
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Watch The Chat and meet the seven candidates for the Ward 3 city council primary
Join longtime New Bedford political writer Jack Spillane as he interviews the candidates during a special edition of The Chat on Wednesday, Jan. 11 at 7 p.m.
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City Council dysfunction is on full display
Sometimes I think that the smaller the stakes are, the worse elected officials behave. But that doesn’t mean we the public have to like it. And it doesn’t mean that this kind of hard-ball tactics and mean-spiritedness in our office-holders is right.
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Clumsy effort results in outrageous wage increases for some New Bedford employees
The council ignored the human resources expert, and in the end, voted 10-0 in favor of the raises. What all the council’s shenanigans did was to raise the cost of these salaries by about a million dollars a year.
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New Bedford surrenders to army of chewing squirrels
This year, for the first time in a decade or so, there are no Christmas lights at Custom House Park. The downtown squirrels evidently ate through the wires for so many years that the DPI has given up, declining to spend “thousands and thousands” of dollars on replacements.
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Ventura offers ‘proof’ of what he calls residency
Ward 3 candidate is now saying the document is “proof” that he lives in New Bedford. That’s fair enough, I guess, as legal proof of his residency. But I don’t think it says anything about whether he lives there on a day-to-day basis.
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As Jacob Ventura eyes Ward 3 special election, some cry ‘carpetbagger’
Ventura is being criticized by at least one of his potential opponents for moving into New Bedford shortly before exploring a run for City Council
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New Bedford board tries to balance needs of recovering addicts with downtown merchants
RCCA lawyer Benjamin Fierro came before the ZBA last week and basically threatened that if New Bedford did not allow his client to open its medical office to dispense Suboxone prescriptions on Union Street, it would sue.
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Counting votes isn’t what it used to be
In light of media scrutiny, New Bedford’s elections chair says new procedures resulted in significant changes to counting and reporting of votes.
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It was the people of New Bedford who rose up against Hodgson
What finally did in Tom Hodgson was the decent, hard-working people of the city of New Bedford, Bristol County’s largest working-class community and the place that undoubtedly has sent the largest number of inmates and correctional officers to tangle with the county’s chief jailer these last 2½ decades.
