Verizon is at it again. Trying to legislate it’s way to profit. What will future proofing do for YOU? There will be a Public hearing on May 18th on Senate Bill S 1687 at the State House in Boston. ——————————————————————————– Public Hearing on S 1687 Coming on May 18, 2011 Bill Proposes setting up a […]
From the 1890′s until 2016, America was THE world economic power. China will overtake the US in 2016 and we are won’t to make corrections due to lack of REAL leadership. The following article appeared in the Wall Street Journal. (minor edits made) Read this…think about it…worry??? IMF Bombshell: Age of America Nears End by […]
GreenCare for Troops is a nationwide outreach program initiated by Project EverGreen that connects participating landscape maintenance professionals and citizen volunteers with families of the men and women away from home serving our country in the Armed Forces. Lawn and landscape maintenance becomes a definite hardship when a military family’s primary breadwinner is on active […]
I, once again, find myself as a blue star parent. My eldest son has just been activated and will be, after pre-deployment training, posted to Afghanistan. One would like to think his deployment to Kabul will be safe since most of the fighting is South of there. The whole country is a war zone, however. […]
Ran across this article from 2008. It is in the Valley Patriot I reproduce it here but it can be read on line also. Methuen Group Assembles to Change Methuen’s Charter Jack Burke Our current Federal system of government did not spring “full born†into existence. It took 11 years to get from a Declaration […]
I have written before about this subject. Then I learned more. Here is what I have learned since my first post. CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Article II. Section 1. Right of Local Self-Government. – It is the intention of this article to reaffirm the customary and traditional liberties of the people with respect […]
I noticed a discussion, which I recreate below, on Mayor Manzi’s Blog. Under the title Methuen Primary Results, scroll down to the comments and read; Tina Conway on September 15, 2010 3:19 am Mayor, do you agree that it’s time for us to look at the money we spend on elections? It just seems like […]
Sometimes the correct word does not exist. A new word must be coined. It is often considered a protologism. Such a word can be found, definition and all, at Wiktionary. That word is the subject line and matter of this article. Freosion is a term that defines the gnawing away of our freedoms. This is […]
The Methuen charter is now on-line as an HTML document. Look under maintained Sites on this blog. You can always review this document here. There is a link at that site to allow you to open and or download the Charter in PDF format from the City website.
In a little over a week, we will go to the polls to vote. This is a General election. Just musing over the ballot questions here in Massachusetts. It is actually easier to get a statewide ballot question on the ballot than it is to get a local question on. Whatever you consider the proper […]