The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
Patrick Henry
excerpt from Henry David Thoreau’s essay’s “Resistance to Civil Government.”
I HEARTILY ACCEPT the motto, — “That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it [...]
The list is my recommendations for Charter Commission members. I generated this list by speaking to all these individuals at various times over the past few months. They appear to be 9 persons without to much political baggage and who are sincere at looking at our charter. I avoided the NAME candidates. They don’t need [...]
Browsing through the Home Rule Charter as it exists today, I noted that there are two types of free petition.
They are Action Discretionary and Action Required.
Methuen has had 4 charters in it’s history. I reviewed them all. The first one in 1917 didn’t have this distinction.
This is the current from the City website. It is identical [...]
Some of you may recall the older commercials on television, I believe they were sponsored by the NAACP. The gist was that “a mind is a terrible thing to waste”.
So much truth in that.
I ask that you not waste your mind on innuendo and seek the facts behind what politocos and others tell you.
Case in point.[Disclaimer: I [...]
There seems to be a lot of discussion about this issue.
Let’s clear it up. Read on.
Read Massachusetts general Law. Chapter 43B, section 6.
Here is a link to the CHAPTER 43B. HOME RULE PROCEDURES. Table of Contents;
http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/gl-43b-toc.htm
For those who don’t wish to review the Home rule procedures, icluded below is section 6.
The underline and bold are [...]