Jack Spillane
Reporter and columnist
Jack Spillane is a career journalist, working primarily as a government and politics reporter and writer.
He has served as a beat and general assignment reporter, columnist, news editor and editorial page editor at community papers in Massachusetts and New Hampshire for 40 years, including at The Standard-Times of New Bedford, The Portsmouth Herald, The Marlboro Enterprise and Lincoln Journal.
Jack has been the recipient of first-place awards from New England press associations for investigative, enterprise, feature, and beat reporting, as well as columnist, editorial page writing and commentary.
He was the recipient of the 2019 Allen B. Rogers Award for his editorial on New Bedford immigrant children being separated from their parents at the border.
Stories
Thumbs up to projects rebuilding New Bedford
Every year there’s a prickly battle at the City Council over approval of certain Community Preservation Committee projects.
CVPA students bemoan loss of school they thought they attended
“You have baited my colleagues and I into moving across the country (and in many cases, across the world) under promise of certain educational and professional opportunities. By then freely electing to break this promise, you actively handicapped our educational and professional development.” — Student Matthew Napoli
Local officials admit CVPA not coming back to New Bedford
Everyone, it seems, except Mayor Jon Mitchell, is now publicly conceding that the College of Visual and Performing Arts will never come back to its longtime home in the Star Store in downtown New Bedford.
Bill do Carmo was New Bedford’s indispensable civil rights man
Cape Verdean leader “was an inspirational man. It’s pretty amazing what he accomplished in his lifetime.”
City’s building department needs to build trust
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.
New Bedford begins to look at new high school
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?
The Light on Radio: Absent landlords, women and the Feast and New Bedford’s role in offshore wind
The New Bedford Light columnist Jack Spillane joined Jim Phillips on WBSM’s Townsquare Sunday to talk about the issues that matter to the city.
‘I want all of the schools in the state to have librarians’
The Light gathered librarians, directors, and school administrators to discuss the state of school libraries and their future. They are unified. Libraries offer “a social and emotional support space in the school.”
The astounding fines that New Bedford landlords ignore
“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.
Let it be Feast time for women
Think about how much talent the Feast is going without because it has not welcomed in its own Madeiran mothers, daughters and sisters.
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