I like Twitter. Not for the celebrity gossip stuff, or the middle school twitter battles that occur over Johny looking at Julie, while Robbie was messing with Sue. It is, however, an excellent system for keeping tabs on a situation that is currently underway. A few months ago, when the Town Leaders Billerica were trying [...]

From Boston.com: However, a Sept. 19, 2012, letter from the Office of Campaign and Political Finance to the attorney general’s office leaves no doubt that regulators found evidence of criminal wrongdoing by Murray in his relationship with McLaughlin, who organized numerous fund-raisers for Murray even though, as a public employee, he was barred from most [...]

Michael McLaughlin, who underreported his salary at the Chelsea Housing Authority for years, is now facing charges in federal district court on the allegations. Falsifying records, obstructing audits, all in a bid to pump up a pension before he got out. Consequences of his actions and the investigations that followed have caused changes to housing [...]

I do not support Governor Patrick’s proposal to raise the income tax nor his boost in state spending. But his proposal to cut the sales tax demonstrates he is operating on a political level light years ahead of the state’s Republican leadership. For full disclosure I will point out that I ran for state rep [...]

We just got the notification from Salem State University announcing the Dracut members of the 2012 Fall Semester Dean’s List. Congratulations to: Marcy Ann Forosisky Michael Paul Ide Kevin Njoroge Koinange Victoria Judith McConnell Brett T Mccoy Eileen Nduta Njeri Tweet

After years, if not decades of discussion, the Dracut School Committee tonight voted unanimously to start the process to close the Parker Avenue School by the start of the next school year. This year’s utilization is 108 students, and next year was scheduled to be about 70 students. It was just not feasible to keep [...]

The Lowell Sun is reporting that Tony Archinski has announced his plans to run for Selectman: DRACUT — Tony Archinski, a former Dracut police lieutenant, has announced his candidacy for a selectman’s seat in the spring election. In becoming the first candidate of the 2013 municipal election season to formally launch his campaign on Thursday, [...]

The fallout of the McLaughlin scandal continues. We hear from the Boston Globe that Gov Deval Patrick is proposing six regional housing agencies to replace the 240 separate public housing authorities across the state. Managers and maintenance workers would remain in each of the communities, but the local boards of commissioners would be eliminated. Decisions [...]

The Board of Selectmen last night voted to move forward towards a new trash collection system for the town. The system would be similar to that of towns around us, without implementing some of the worst. Town Manager Dennis Piendak started the discussion by pointing out that Westford has implemented a system whereby if you [...]