Author Archives: Jack Spillane

Cape Verdean leader “was an inspirational man. It’s pretty amazing what he accomplished in his lifetime.”

In the last year, no less than three prominent local people — whose names you would all recognize if I wrote them — have told me in background conversations that New Bedford has a big problem with its inspection and permitting practices.

Superintendent Andrew O’Leary says it takes 10 years to plan a new school and now is the time to start talking about replacing the high school. Will two 100-year-old elementary schools have to wait?

“We’re certainly willing to play every card we have,” Mitchell said. He contended that no mayor has done more to chase landlords for code violations than he has. And the city is cleaner than it has ever been.

Any walk around the downtown commercial sector will quickly prove that we’re not there yet. It’s a long way back from where New Bedford has been.

A contemporary library needs to exist as a place apart … (a) place to get away from the teachers and administrators and to be lived and enjoyed on its own terms.

Will New Bedford ever be as beautiful as Barcelona? In its own way, I think it already is.

The juvenile nature of it all reminds me a little of what my father used to do when my younger brother and me used to get in wrestling fights.