Jack Spillane appears on WBSM Radio’s Townsquare Sunday on April 24 to discuss the controversial Dartmouth High logo and nickname, parking controversy at Noah’s Place Playground on Pope’s Island, the […]
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State of the City is bragging time for New Bedford mayors
Perhaps the areas where the Mayor Mitchell’s accomplishments best live up to his rhetoric is in the scope of the economic development that is taking place on the waterfront, and the upgrades to the city’s parks, streets and sidewalks.
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New Bedford’s new middle school curriculum sparks worries about diversity
Changes have made it more difficult, if not impossible, for some 8th grade teachers to use educational material centered around a play based on the Diary of Anne Frank and materials used in connection with Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
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Wake up, New Bedford. If UMD’s traditional fine arts succumb to the practical, the city will lose.
Talk to anyone who has been involved in the renewal of downtown New Bedford over the last 20 years and they will tell you the arrival of UMass Dartmouth artists has been an integral part of the city’s revival.
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Discovery of sunken Westport whaling ship offers glimpse into little-known Black and Indigenous history
“Finding the Industry is an amazing opportunity to tell a much fuller story of Paul Cuffe’s accomplishments as a whaling captain, businessman, and social activist bent on finding a way to end the slave trade.” – New Bedford historian Lee Blake
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The Light on Radio: Jack Spillane discusses spending pandemic money and a controversial logo on WBSM
Jack Spillane appears on WBSM Radio’s Townsquare Sunday on March 20 to discuss the New Bedford School District’s building plans with its pandemic relief funds, more divides between the city council and mayor on how to spend its own spending of those funds and a controversial school logo that has the town of Dartmouth divided.
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Councilors finally approve ARPA money with virtually no public discussion
Among the spending approvals: $7.1 million for health and safety; $11.1 million for neighborhood stability and housing; $7.1 million for small business support; $8.7 million for open space enhancements; $4.7 million for water and wastewater; and $11.9 million for arts, culture, hospitality and tourism.
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The Light on Radio: Jack Spillane discusses his recent columns on WBSM radio
Jack Spillane joins Jim Phillips on WBSM to discuss important New Bedford topics, from affordable housing, the spending of the city’s ARPA funds, driver licenses for undocumented women and the untold history of Cape Verdean women.
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City Council tries stealth maneuvers to gain control of pandemic relief funds
Even more worrisome than the council’s determination to exert more control over the federal ARPA funds than they are probably entitled to, is the secretive process by which the council is trying to exercise that control.
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The Light on Radio: Jack Spillane discusses the hot topics from the first week of February
New Bedford Light columnist Jack Spillane discusses Keith Hovan, Mayor John Mitchell, the local Guatemalan immigrant population’s struggles to receive Covid aid, the new city council committee appointments, masks in city council chambers and a former fire chief who was allegedly scamming the city of money while out on disability.