Posts Tagged ‘Humor’
Killing the Flock corpse
Voters at next week’s Town Meeting have a choice. They can decide to take up and debate Article 18, or they can take no action by voting to indefinitely postpone it. Either way, the result will be exactly the same: The Wakefield Police Department‘s Flock cameras will be gone. Article 18 that would have forced […]
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One-way street
As I predicted in this space on Aug. 27, the activists from Safe Streets Wakefield made their presence known at last week’s Town Council meeting to support Envision Wakefield, for one reason and one reason only: mandated bike lanes. Envision Wakefield is the downtown revitalization project that will be funded by tens of millions of […]
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Tags: activists, bicycles, bike lanes, bikes, cyclists, Envision Wakefield, Humor, Mark Sardella, Opinion, politicians, Politics, Safe Streets Wakefield, Safe Streets Working Group, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield Town Council, Wakefield Warrior Logo, William Renault
Equity on wheels
“Complete Streets,” “Safe Streets Wakefield,” “Envision Wakefield,” etc., etc. Even members of the Town Council can’t keep them straight. How do they expect the public to? Maybe they don’t. Obfuscation can be a political strategy. Allow me to clarify things for you. The state, certain local officials and the activists pulling the strings behind the […]
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Tags: activists, bicycle, bicycles, bike, bike lanes, bikes, Complete Streets, cycle, cycling, Envision Wakefield, Humor, Mark Sardella, MassDOT, multimodal transportation, Opinion, Politics, Safe Streets Wakefield, shared-use path, social justice, transportation equity, urban planning, vehicles, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield Town Council
Keep the change
I have thus far resisted the temptation to opine on the issue of moving to permanent daylight saving time and thereby ending the practice of changing the clocks twice a year. But now that the United States House of Representatives has voted to make daylight saving time permanent, I feel that the time has come […]
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Tags: Alaska, Anchorage, clocks, commute, dark, daylight, Daylight Saving Time, daylight savings time, dusk, headlights, House of Representatives, Humor, Mark Sardella, night, Opinion, Politics, President, President Donald J. Trump, Richard M. Nixon, school, Standard Time, summer, sunrise, time, United States, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA, winter
Happy birthday, America!
You only turn 250 once, America, so enjoy your day! Seriously, you look great for your age. You don’t look a day over 200. Despite the slings and arrows of your enemies, foreign and domestic, you’re aging gracefully. Remember, age is just a number, and you’re only as old as you feel. Life begins at […]
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Stars, stripes and a shrug
What a difference five decades make. Those who were around in 1976 remember that the nation’s Bicentennial was a big, big deal. Everywhere you looked, there was something to remind you of our nation’s 200th birthday. Bicentennial logos appeared on everything from cereal boxes to beverage bottles and cans. Everything had a red, white and […]
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The recurring revolution
There’s an old song by Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks called, How Can I Miss You When You Won’t Go Away? I believe we have reached that point with the “No Kings/Indivisible” movement. Shoppers, businesses and drivers have been subjected to the weekly harangues of these “protesters” for over a year now. We get […]
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Tags: Boomers, capitalism, Dan Hicks, Donald J. Trump, free speech, Humor, Indivisible, Mark Sardella, No Kings, Opinion, Pledge of Allegiance, Politics, President of the United States, protesters, protests, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA
Call me Nostradamus
I would like to thank the voters of Wakefield – or should I say, the non-voters – for making a prophet out of me. Two weeks ago in this space, I boldly predicted that you would stay away from the polls in droves on Election Day. You didn’t let me down. Fully 90 percent of […]
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Tags: apathy, AWOL, Brian Fox, budget, deficit, election, FY2027, high school, Humor, knitting, Mark Sardella, Nostradamus, Opinion, Politics, prophet, taxes, Town Councilm Ami Wall, Town Meeting, voters, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield MA, Wakefield Public Schools
Minority rule
Tuesday is Town Election Day, and if past is prologue, fully 10-15 percent of Wakefield’s registered voters will exercise the right that President Jimmy Carter called, “the foundation of our democracy.” The remaining 85-90 percent of you will be on social media railing about the condition of the roads, overdevelopment and wondering how we ended […]
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The king of comedy
This has to be the most entertaining administration in American history, at least for anyone with a sense of humor. The reaction to the President’s recent answer to a question posed by a Japanese reporter is a case in point. The reporter asked Trump why he didn’t give America’s European and Asian allies a heads […]
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