Archive for October, 2023
Thickly settled
27Oct23
If there’s one thing the public has made abundantly clear of late, it’s that they hate overdevelopment and especially all the new multifamily housing being built around town. The discussion of overdevelopment dominates conversation in the public square, the local coffee shops and on social media. It’s a far greater concern than potholes or a […]
Filed under: Columns & Essays, News, Opinion, Politics, Wakefield | 1 Comment
Tags: affordable housing, Anne Danehy, building, by right, Chapter 40A, construction, density, development, district, Edward Dombroski, EOHLC, Erin Kokinda, globalism, Greenwood, housing, Jim Hogan, Jonathan Chines, Julie Smith-Galvin, Mark Sardella, Massachusetts, MBTA communities, Michael McLane, multi-family, Opinion, over-development, overdevelopment, Politics, population, residential, units, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA, West Side, zoning
Happy real Columbus Day!
12Oct23
Today, October 12, is traditional Columbus Day. It was 531 years ago today that the Genoese explorer became the first European to set foot in the Western Hemisphere. No big deal, according to those who want to cancel Christopher Columbus because he violated “norms” that the world wouldn’t discover for another half millennium. The cancelers […]
Filed under: Columns & Essays, History, Humor, Opinion, Politics, Wakefield | 3 Comments
Tags: America, cancel culture, Christopher Columbus, Europeans, exploration, FDR, Genoa, History, Humor, Indians, Italians, Italy, LBJ, Mark Sardella, Native Americans, New World, Oct. 12, Opinion, politicsColumbus Day, Samuel Eliot Morison, United States, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA
Mark Sardella 