Archive for August, 2016
Let’s be clear
To paraphrase the late, great Dan Hicks, “How can we miss them when they won’t go away?” Just when you thought it was safe to go to the Post Office on Saturday morning, they’re back like a bad penny – or three or four of them. The Wakefield Civic League, those guardians of our local […]
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Tags: Albion Cultural Exchange, Board of Selectmen, Boston Globe Spotlight Team, correspondence, Dan Hicks, Gov. Charlie Baker, government, Hallmark Health, Humor, information, Jean Nicholson, KENO, letters, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Lottery Commission, News, Opinion, Paul DiNocco, Politics, post office, Rep. Donald Wong, Rep. Paul Brodeur, town hall, Town of Wakefield, transparency, Wakefield Civic League, Zoning Board of Appeals
Summer checklist
Have you looked at a calendar lately? It’s Aug. 18 already! Wasn’t the July Fourth Parade was just last weekend? Summer’s slipping away, and we are rapidly approaching the point where even Daylight Saving Time will not be able to stave off the encroaching night. Even Saturday’s Festival Italia will conclude in darkness. But if […]
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Tags: balloon, bicycle, Brightview Senior Living, calendar, camping, concert, crane, cycling, Daylight Saving Time, drive-in movie, drought, farmers' market, Festival Italia, fireflies, fracking, gasoline price, grass, hiking, Humor, July Fourth, Labor Day, Marco Polo, Mark Sardella summer, Martha Stewart, Mazda, mosquitoes, Olympics, Opinion, plastic bags, Politics, rain, Wakefield, Wakefield Daily Item, Words with Friends
High resolution
This week, the Wakefield Board of Selectmen passed a resolution opposing the legalization of marijuana, dealing a devastating blow to the local Cannabis Community. On the bright side, most of them were too high to notice. Dude, don’t the selectmen know that people have a Constitutional right to smoke weed? The Constitution was written on […]
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Tags: ballot, Bob DeLeo, bong, Boston, cannabis, David Njuguna, driving, drug abuse, drugs, edibles, election, ganja, Gov. Charlie Baker, hemp, herb, joint, legalization, Lt. Thomas Clardy, marijuana. pot, Mark Sardella, Massachusetts, Maura Healey, Mayor Martin Walsh, medical, prohibition, Question 4, Sen. Jason Lewis, THC, US Constitution, vote, Wakefield Board of Selectmen, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA, weed
Fine print
Lately, I don’t feel like my week is complete until I’ve been lectured by a millennial about one thing or another. Usually it’s about the evil of plastic bags or how many genders there are or how the Founding Fathers all smoked hemp, dude. The usual venue for these sermons is social media, where I’m […]
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Tags: Baby Boomers, citizenship, civics, education, Facebook, First Amendment, Founding Fathers, Freedom of the Press, Great Depression, Greatest Generation, hippies, Invasion of Normandy, Mark Sardella, media, millenials, mosquito, News, newspapers, Olympics, peace movement, Politics, press, schools, social media, Stephen Colbert, Twitter, Wakefield Daily Item, Zika
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