Was reading Yahoo web today and saw this article.
Copied. (Link to original)
Raised the question in my mind;
Why can’t Methuen investigate the cost of all city services?
Assume they were privatized.
Then either bring the municipal budget in line with that or actually privatize the functions?
Read the story and decide for yourself.
Maywood, California, lays off all employees
Tami Luhby, [...]
How well or poorly is your neighborhood doing at returning United States Census Forms for 2010?
Want to Know?
This is from the Census Bureau; It is updated daily.
The Census Bureau 2010 slogan is TAKE 10.
Check here; City Map
If you enter your zip code, a map will appear.
It is color coded and shows the return rate [...]
As the City begins looking at another bleak budget forecast and negotiations with it’s labor unions, let’s hope they keep these numbers in mind.
The State of Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, Division of Unemployment Assistance has released the latest data on unemployement for all of Massachusetts and the Cities and Towns therein.
The [...]
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian author/poet and an important Renaissance humanist. One quote from him is “Do as we say, and not as we do” .
BY HIS HONOR WILLIAM M. MANZI, III MAYOR
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 019-2009
ORDER REGARDING CITY OWNED VEHICLES
WHEREAS, The City of Methuen has been experiencing a worsening financial [...]
I have been extremely remiss this month. Not one post. That does not mean that I have been neglectfull. Just busy.
Flooding is still on my mind. Another flood event has just come and gone in the past week. Many times I have been asked what can be done? Lot’s of people think the City should [...]
Again we have had rain. Lot’s of rain.
In fact the rain guage at the USGS station nearest to Methuen showed about 3.5 inches of rain in the past 4 days.
The Spicket River rose.
I have found, by watching the guages, for the last few years that a simple seat-of-the-pants rule can be derived.
For each inch of [...]
The media has today reported that Governor Patrick claims 14,000 new jobs have been created from the so-called stimulus package.
This is reported at the same time that the unemployement rate ,again, increased in Massachusetts, to 9.1%.
The bottom line is that Job creation, real job creation, long term job creation is lagging sorely behind the layoff [...]
I receive, just as you do, lots of emails that are chain-letter types. I do not support chain letters and they all end with me.
However, I read them to see what they are about and sometimes I check into them for friends who send them to me.
I use www.snopes.com to check veracity. They do an [...]
Found this section of the Mass DEP website. They list Orders and Consent Decrees issued during a year.
I sorted, using the Find function, by Methuen and this came up for last year , 2009.
2/18/09: MassDEP issued a Unilateral Order and $14,000 Penalty Assessment Notice to Kim’s Cleaners for Hazardous Waste and Air Quality violations in [...]
The United States Supreme Court, without the use of stem cells has created a new person.
What science has been unable to do and what so many have feared, since Mary Shelley,and Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus has come into existence.
Starbucks, Sears, Roebuck and Comcast or Verizon are now people.
They have the right of free speech.
In [...]