Dracut Forum

“That is the way the game is played. First you come in with huge toll increases, and after everyone gets all upset, they do what they plan to do in the first place, and that is to raise the gas tax. Then everyone says thank heaven, thanks Sal DiMasi, I am just a dumb Massachusetts [...]

On his way out, former Governor Romney gave the incoming Governor Patrick a gift.
He vetoed over 400 Million in spending from the state budget. He made the cuts himself (I’m sure his own Presidential ambitions were involved as well), so that the next Governor wouldn’t have to start with making such difficult cuts right away.
The [...]

By Lyle Moran, Sun Correspondent
BOSTON — Massachusetts Republicans say Gov. Deval Patrick’s decision yesterday to drastically reduce state spending and dip into the rainy-day fund wouldn’t have been necessary if he listened to their advice.
“The situation we find ourselves in today has been made much more severe by the Patrick administration’s refusal to heed the [...]

Political Column, The Lowell Sun
THANKS A lot, Dracut.
Lowell Assistant City Solicitor Maria Sheehy would likely be preparing her exit from City Hall today if Dracut’s delegates to a Democratic caucus Wednesday night had sided with the rest of the Greater Lowell delegation and not gone off on their own.
Sheehy finished third in her bid to [...]

From the Lowell Sun’s Breaking News:
5 men face arraignment in Middlesex veteran donor scam
BOSTON (AP) — Five men who allegedly used more than $100,000 they claimed they were raising for police and veterans charities for personal expenses are scheduled for arraignment.
The Middlesex District Attorney says the men used fraudulent telemarketing practices between August 2006 and [...]

By Edward Mason
Eagle Tribune Staff writer
BOSTON — Cell phone users will pay for an ambitious expansion of the state’s 911 system that includes a pilot program to rapidly locate where wireless calls are coming from in an emergency.
The 45-cent-a-month increase also will help pay for millions of dollars in grants to communities across the state [...]