Tuesday,
March 3rd at 7pm at City Hall – finally the hearing that counts, not
all those fake hearings that they made up over the past several months
on the Proposed Condo Conversion Ordinance, – so-called new and
improved and the one pushing for it is Princess Rebekah the Alderwoman
from Ward 6 (who by the way doesn't own property). After a miserable
defeat a few years back on her first attempt, they resurfaced last year
under the lie that the committee make up which included Greater Boston
Real Estate Board members. Only a staff person from the GBREB was on
the committee and not the dues paying, local working and living
members. This guy who is CEO of the board sat on the committee, he even
said he never owned property or sold property he is a lawyer and a
resident for 15 years paying rent here in Somerville (according to
sources moved out a long time ago). They touted back last summer this
was a new and improved Ordinance and that the Board of Realtors
endorsed it – NOT TRUE – just ask any dues paying member here in
Somerville. So march out to City Hall that night and once more show
Princess Rebekah and her small group of minions (PDSers), staffers up
at city hall and the SCC that are pushing this – that this is RENT
CONTROL – nothing more, nothing less. It's bad for the tax base, it's
bad for tenants and owners and it's bad for everyone in this economy.
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Helicopters
hovering over the city the other day, this time over Nissenbaum's Auto
Recyclers & Parts place on Columbia Street, seems there was a
"Reality TV Show" filming there – with all sorts of camera trucks and
producers there temporary closing off the entire area around the shop,
propping it up for filming set for the day!
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Condolences
to Jimmy Brennan's (not the former mayor but the Plumber) family and
friends and he had a lot of them, he passed away at home last Saturday
evening with his family present. Jimmy always had a smile and a good
word for everyone. Always there to help aide and assist anyone that
needed it. His wake is at Doherty's tonight (Wednesday the 25th from
4pm to 8pm) – we who knew him will truly miss him.
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The
Hanneke Cassel Band, featuring Ari Friedman (cello) and Christopher
Lewis (guitar) will be playing at the Clarendon Hill Presbyterian
Church at 155 Powderhouse Blvd on Saturday, February 28th at 8:00 pm.
Fionnuala O'Donovan and a special surprise guest will be opening for
them. Tickets are $15 at the door, $12.50 advance reservations, $10 for
seniors and students – for more information, go to:
notlobmusic.googlepages.com
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What's going
on over in Lower Broadway at the old Melo Tone building? Seems someone
is shooting up the exterior of the building, according to sources this
has happened three times so far! Good thing Lower Broadway has a Police
substation practically across the street from this location.
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A
big get well to Alderman Tom Taylor, who we hear isn't doing all that
well, we know he's in and out of the hospital, but we keep hearing he's
not doing too well – we hope everyone will join us in wishing him well
and a speedy recovery at his home in Ward 3. Tom has been a watchdog
for Ward 3 here in Somerville for many years we should all send him our
prayers and good thoughts!
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Guess at the
Davis Square Task force meeting Princess Rebekah found out that the
proposed Dunkin Donuts at the old convenience store at Powderhouse
could go there with or without her permission (she was against them
going there). Lots of neighbors and residents are in favor of it
anyway, but of course the Princess dances to a different piper. This
particular owner presently owns the DD in Davis Square and on Highland
Ave and is highly respected and a good citizen here in Somerville. He
applied for all the necessary permits and licenses to open; it's going
to be a combination store and Dunkin Donuts, which was there before
except he's adding the Dunkin Donuts.
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Mayor
Joe had another successful fundraiser last night in Davis Square at
Sagra, no rumors about anyone mounting a challenge to his re-election
bid this year, he's been a pretty good Mayor in our opinion – but then
again we were the only paper here in Somerville to endorse him from the
beginning. Seems like Alderman Sean O'Donovan has been making the
rounds in Ward 5, making his presence known and building up a war chest
just in case the PDSers find some loser to run against him.
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Seems
like the Farm Team editor has too much time on her hands – the other
day she wondered WHO might be the famous Somerville News blogger "Dr.
Mrs. McCarthy" in real life – she listed a bunch of names of
possibilities. Well, we regret to inform her that none of the names
mentioned were correct, we heard from Dr. Mrs. McCarthy today (on news
day) and she's been resting at the Home keeping a low profile after the
loss on election day in 2007 – she took the last election hard – but
she wanted us to tell all her fans she'll be back. We think she sounds
differently – she mentioned she was also upset over the lack of Jell-O
and juice at the 8 o'clock rounds at the home.
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Seems
like the PDSers web site was down for a few weeks, guess someone forgot
to pay the bill, maybe they were looking to see if they got any money
from the stimulus package recently voted on.
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Are
you missing your rubbish barrel lid? Recently a lot of people are
complaining of missing lids and the rash of tickets being given out.
We're wondering if the ordinance needs adjusting or is this a revenue
ploy?
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