Is it just us or does every proposed Zoning Bylaw change seem to require a Special Permit from the Planning Board?
No one wants to give the Planning Board sweeping powers over their business or their real estate. It’s just not going to happen. The town is too small and right or wrong people think that the Board will abuse that kind of power.
Note to Planning Board: Look into a PR consultant. Presentation is everything.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Monday, January 30, 2006
Town Meeting Tonight 1/30/06
It's your money... lots of it, and your town.Be there or stay home shut up and pay the bills.
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Marie Parente on DSS... 5 Years ago!
Committee Chair Is Troubled By DSS
Read this interview that Marie Parente had with Massachusetts News in December of 2000. Do you think any of the hack wannabes will stick their neck out this far?... Guess Again
Please write Marie Parente. Thank her and ask her to run one more time for the children.
mailto:mRep.MarieParente@hou.state.ma.us
Read this interview that Marie Parente had with Massachusetts News in December of 2000. Do you think any of the hack wannabes will stick their neck out this far?... Guess Again
Please write Marie Parente. Thank her and ask her to run one more time for the children.
mailto:mRep.MarieParente@hou.state.ma.us
Monday, January 23, 2006
Another Stealth Town Meeting
A snowy night in January is the perfect opportunity to screw the taxpayer.
Remember the DOR Report that the selectmen poo pooed? One of the major recommendations was fewer "Special Town Meetings". The DOR knows that the goblins come out at these sparsely attended events.
26 Articles - Do you know what is happening? They do.
95% of the people in attendance tonight will be town employees and elected officials. Katie bar the door.
Remember the DOR Report that the selectmen poo pooed? One of the major recommendations was fewer "Special Town Meetings". The DOR knows that the goblins come out at these sparsely attended events.
26 Articles - Do you know what is happening? They do.
95% of the people in attendance tonight will be town employees and elected officials. Katie bar the door.
No Web Site... Two years and counting
Welcome to the website for the town of Mendon, Massachusetts! Our website is currently being re-developed. Please check back often for the new website! -----------------------------------------------
One would think that with a fat no-bid contract the company responsible for this would get it together, although dealing with Sharon Cutler would delay things a bit.
Remember, we had a great web site loaded with information. You could pay bills, check by-laws etc, etc etc. That would have cost $2500 a year. Now we have nothing that will cost 4 times that amount. Great work Selectmen, you guys are really on your game!
Remember, we had a great web site loaded with information. You could pay bills, check by-laws etc, etc etc. That would have cost $2500 a year. Now we have nothing that will cost 4 times that amount. Great work Selectmen, you guys are really on your game!
Sunday, January 22, 2006
Government is not the Solution.. They are the Problem
If you missed her interview with Michael Graham on WTTK 96.9FM a few days ago you missed our great champion of children's rights. She has always been a thorn in the side of DSS. If we keep her there maybe she will become a stake through their heart.
MASSACHUSETTS DSS: THE "DEATH SENTENCE SOCIETY
11-year-old Haleigh Poutre’s life has been so tragic, even “Million Dollar Baby” author FX Toole would dismiss it as over the top: Abandoned by her biological father, she was repeatedly sexually abused by her mother’s boyfriend before she reached the age of nine. Her mother then abandoned her to Haleigh’s aunt, who promptly began beating and abusing the little girl.for two years. So did the “uncle,” her now stepfather Jason Strickland, who is currently charged with being part of the abuse and negligence that, on September 11 of last year, sent little Haleigh to the hospital with a broken nose, multiple fractures and severe brain damage.
The aunt, Holly Strickland, faces no charges because she and her grandmother were found shot dead less than two weeks later in what authorities are investigating as a murder-suicide. It looks like child abuse was truly a family affair.
As sickening as that story is, it gets worse. The Massachusetts Department of Social Services received 17 reports of abuse or neglect regarding Haleigh while she was in the custody of the Stricklands. Believe it or not, every single time, DSS sent this girl back home for more beatings, burnings (scalded in the bathtub in one incident) and abuse. On September 13th, DSS finally took custody of poor Haleigh, but by that time—thanks to the incompetence of DSS itself—she was already on life support and in a vegetative state.
So what does DSS do? Do they order an investigation of their own incompetent case workers? Fight for the best medical care for little Haleigh? No. One week after gaining custody of Haleigh Poutre, Massachusetts DSS goes to the courts and asks for permission to kill her.
They wanted to immediately take her off the ventilator and remove her feeding tube. After one WEEK.
DSS claims they were relying on medical professionals who told them (once again, after less than 10 days!) that Haleigh’s case was hopeless. However, DSS also claims they relied on expert medical testimony when they gave Haleigh back to her abusive family members SEVENTEEN TIMES!
Memo to Massachusetts DSS: Call Dr. Gregory House now. You obviously need some new doctors.
Haleigh has proven the doctors wrong by “suddenly” responding to stimuli—something people in vegetative states don’t usually do. I put the word “suddenly” in scare quotes because the Boston Globe reports today that Haleigh’s condition began improving a week BEFORE DSS took the case to the state’s supreme court (the SJC). But, for some reason nobody has yet explained, their lawyers didn’t reveal this fact to the SJC when they requested permission to terminate Haleigh’s life support. And Haleigh’s lawyer didn’t mention it because, due to outrageous circumstances, DSS IS Haleigh’s lawyer.
The only lawyer representing Haley in any is the lawyer for her abusive uncle, James Strickland, who could face murder or manslaughter charges is she dies.
So this is the sick situation in Massachusetts today: An 11-year-old girl is repeatedly left by DSS in the hands of her torturers. They eventually abuse her so badly she ends up in the hospital on the verge of brain death. DSS, having allowed this abuse, promptly asks for permission to kill her. The only advocate the state of Massachusetts gives her? One of the two monsters who beat her nearly to death.
Haleigh Poutre, meanwhile, keeps fighting for her life. And, as has the case during her entire, sad life, she’s fighting all alone.
Michael Graham
MASSACHUSETTS DSS: THE "DEATH SENTENCE SOCIETY
11-year-old Haleigh Poutre’s life has been so tragic, even “Million Dollar Baby” author FX Toole would dismiss it as over the top: Abandoned by her biological father, she was repeatedly sexually abused by her mother’s boyfriend before she reached the age of nine. Her mother then abandoned her to Haleigh’s aunt, who promptly began beating and abusing the little girl.for two years. So did the “uncle,” her now stepfather Jason Strickland, who is currently charged with being part of the abuse and negligence that, on September 11 of last year, sent little Haleigh to the hospital with a broken nose, multiple fractures and severe brain damage.
The aunt, Holly Strickland, faces no charges because she and her grandmother were found shot dead less than two weeks later in what authorities are investigating as a murder-suicide. It looks like child abuse was truly a family affair.
As sickening as that story is, it gets worse. The Massachusetts Department of Social Services received 17 reports of abuse or neglect regarding Haleigh while she was in the custody of the Stricklands. Believe it or not, every single time, DSS sent this girl back home for more beatings, burnings (scalded in the bathtub in one incident) and abuse. On September 13th, DSS finally took custody of poor Haleigh, but by that time—thanks to the incompetence of DSS itself—she was already on life support and in a vegetative state.
So what does DSS do? Do they order an investigation of their own incompetent case workers? Fight for the best medical care for little Haleigh? No. One week after gaining custody of Haleigh Poutre, Massachusetts DSS goes to the courts and asks for permission to kill her.
They wanted to immediately take her off the ventilator and remove her feeding tube. After one WEEK.
DSS claims they were relying on medical professionals who told them (once again, after less than 10 days!) that Haleigh’s case was hopeless. However, DSS also claims they relied on expert medical testimony when they gave Haleigh back to her abusive family members SEVENTEEN TIMES!
Memo to Massachusetts DSS: Call Dr. Gregory House now. You obviously need some new doctors.
Haleigh has proven the doctors wrong by “suddenly” responding to stimuli—something people in vegetative states don’t usually do. I put the word “suddenly” in scare quotes because the Boston Globe reports today that Haleigh’s condition began improving a week BEFORE DSS took the case to the state’s supreme court (the SJC). But, for some reason nobody has yet explained, their lawyers didn’t reveal this fact to the SJC when they requested permission to terminate Haleigh’s life support. And Haleigh’s lawyer didn’t mention it because, due to outrageous circumstances, DSS IS Haleigh’s lawyer.
The only lawyer representing Haley in any is the lawyer for her abusive uncle, James Strickland, who could face murder or manslaughter charges is she dies.
So this is the sick situation in Massachusetts today: An 11-year-old girl is repeatedly left by DSS in the hands of her torturers. They eventually abuse her so badly she ends up in the hospital on the verge of brain death. DSS, having allowed this abuse, promptly asks for permission to kill her. The only advocate the state of Massachusetts gives her? One of the two monsters who beat her nearly to death.
Haleigh Poutre, meanwhile, keeps fighting for her life. And, as has the case during her entire, sad life, she’s fighting all alone.
Michael Graham
Re-printed from WTTK Boston. http://www.969fmtalk.com/
Saturday, January 21, 2006
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Welcome Back Kevin
It's good to have you back and blogging again. We missed you. It was also good to hear that you got top-notch service from the Fire and Police Departments, you deserve nothing less. We do agree on the fact that public safety is getting the job done in Mendon these days. (That ought to bring out the rif raf)
It is a little more than perplexing that you now think Ken O'Brien is a stand up guy. You have spent the last six months bashing him. Did you and he have one of those little heart to heart talks again? Did he tell you again how important you would be to the development of the Fino land? He does need your mouth going his way on that issue because he knows we are watching his every move. Hi Ken.
That was a bit insensitive, telling Marie Parente that she is so old she should step down. She is in better shape than people half her age. Hell, She is in better shape that you are. For our money Marie can stay. There are a million hack wannabes lined up waiting for a turn at the troth, the later the better.
It is a little more than perplexing that you now think Ken O'Brien is a stand up guy. You have spent the last six months bashing him. Did you and he have one of those little heart to heart talks again? Did he tell you again how important you would be to the development of the Fino land? He does need your mouth going his way on that issue because he knows we are watching his every move. Hi Ken.
That was a bit insensitive, telling Marie Parente that she is so old she should step down. She is in better shape than people half her age. Hell, She is in better shape that you are. For our money Marie can stay. There are a million hack wannabes lined up waiting for a turn at the troth, the later the better.
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Daigle announces retirement… Not Quite
Good jobs at good wages are nothing new for administrators in our government schools and neither is a bang up retirement. This is nothing new nor is it illegal; it is playing the system and the taxpayers for all there worth. It’s just another day in government.
By waiting until January 9th to announce his July 1st “Retirement”, Paul Daigle has left too small a window for the school committee to search, interview and appoint another superintendent. That process should take a year but now has less than 6 months. This will force the school district to hire an interim replacement until the position is filled.
Can you guess who the interim replacement will be… think hard… Yep, you guessed it. Paul Daigle. Mr. Daigle will get to cash another years worth of paychecks and his retirement checks as a “Consultant”. Way to go Paul.
Before you say “what’s wrong with that” think about a full year of a lame duck consultant putting off the big decisions and treading the academic waters until the real deal arrives. Worse yet, think about a school committee rushing to fill the position with a less qualified candidate because all the good people were all hired during the normal rotation with a years notice.
The school committee had everything to do with this. They have known for a year that Daigle was going to take the golden parachute jump. They could have held Daigle’s feet to the fire and insisted he make his intentions known in a timely manner in spite of his contract. But then that would have been out of character for them. Unfortunately they are not the watchdogs they are the lap dogs.
By waiting until January 9th to announce his July 1st “Retirement”, Paul Daigle has left too small a window for the school committee to search, interview and appoint another superintendent. That process should take a year but now has less than 6 months. This will force the school district to hire an interim replacement until the position is filled.
Can you guess who the interim replacement will be… think hard… Yep, you guessed it. Paul Daigle. Mr. Daigle will get to cash another years worth of paychecks and his retirement checks as a “Consultant”. Way to go Paul.
Before you say “what’s wrong with that” think about a full year of a lame duck consultant putting off the big decisions and treading the academic waters until the real deal arrives. Worse yet, think about a school committee rushing to fill the position with a less qualified candidate because all the good people were all hired during the normal rotation with a years notice.
The school committee had everything to do with this. They have known for a year that Daigle was going to take the golden parachute jump. They could have held Daigle’s feet to the fire and insisted he make his intentions known in a timely manner in spite of his contract. But then that would have been out of character for them. Unfortunately they are not the watchdogs they are the lap dogs.
Sunday, January 08, 2006
You heard it here first
The Town has hired a new Administrative Assistant. He starts on Monday the 23rd of this month. His name is Michael W. McCue. He is a selectman for the town of Mansfield.
We hope Mr. McCue has a thick skin because he has no power. "Those Ladies" in the town hall will have him for lunch and he will get no support from the Selectmen. Our guess is that he will last a year and move on to something saner.
In any event good luck Mr. McCue... Welcome to our nightmare
We hope Mr. McCue has a thick skin because he has no power. "Those Ladies" in the town hall will have him for lunch and he will get no support from the Selectmen. Our guess is that he will last a year and move on to something saner.
In any event good luck Mr. McCue... Welcome to our nightmare
Thursday, January 05, 2006
Why wouldn't the Milford Daily News publish this??
This letter was sent to many local and regional papers. The Milford Daily News refused to publish it. The writer is a bit right of center and that is a sin in their Editorial Department. Unless you are a "Touchy Feely Leftie" or a friend of one of their big advertisers, your letter will never see ink.
This is a bit off topic for Mendon but worth the read.
(Published December 30, 2005 in the Woonsocket Call)
(Published February 1, 2006 in the Uxbridge Times)
December 24, 2005
The Woonsocket Call
75 Main Street
Woonsocket, RI 02895
Letter to the Editor
No one, anywhere, any time, any way, should dictate that you or your children must call a CHRISTmas tree a magical tree or you must change words to a known song of “We wish you a Merry CHRISTmas”, to we wish you a swinging holiday.
All children, parents, employees, and taxpayers associated with the Medway public schools have been discriminated against, which is clearly unconstitutional,
The Supreme Court has made numerous, precedent setting decisions that ensure that no government entity can promote or make policies that endorse any religion. Laws establishing any religion are forbidding in the Bill of Rights under the Establishment Clause of the 1st Amendment, which the court has continually upheld.
What the Medway school administration has obviously forgotten or purposely ignored is, in the same Bill of Rights under the Free Speech and Free-Exercise Clause of the 1st Amendment, the government cannot inhibit the exercise of personal religious speech, which is protected under said clause.
The high court has also created an abundance of precedence setting decisions that forbid discrimination against religious speech in public schools. Furthermore, the court has made it clear that religious speech is to receive equal treatment, but not preferential treatment.
The Equal Access Act, which became law on August 11, 1984, and upheld as constitutional in 1990 by a vote of 8-1 by the Supreme Court, is the remedy for the children, parents, taxpayers, businesses, and employees in Medway that want CHRISTmas trees and songs like “We wish you a Merry CHRISTmas” within their public schools.
The Act asserts that no public secondary school, as determined by state law, receiving federal funds, can oppose or prevent meetings on school property by student religious or political groups. With some limitations, parents, and in many incidences, teachers, can also attend.
Therefore, all the numerous people that have expressed there condemnation of this attack on CHRISTmas, the children, parents, and employees of the Medway public schools, must take action. They must strive to educate the children, teenagers, and young adults in the Medway public schools, all schools in Massachusetts and throughout the United States, that they can have CHRISTmas trees and sing songs like “We wish you a Merry CHRISTmas” within their public schools; especially if their school administration creates policies that ask you to call something a magical tree or sing a song wishing you a swinging holiday.
Robert J. Badzmierowski
Former Selectman Town of Bellingham
Former candidate for State Representative Commonwealth of Massachusetts
79 Caroline Drive
Bellingham, MA 02019
1-508-498-3583
This is a bit off topic for Mendon but worth the read.
(Published December 30, 2005 in the Woonsocket Call)
(Published February 1, 2006 in the Uxbridge Times)
December 24, 2005
The Woonsocket Call
75 Main Street
Woonsocket, RI 02895
Letter to the Editor
No one, anywhere, any time, any way, should dictate that you or your children must call a CHRISTmas tree a magical tree or you must change words to a known song of “We wish you a Merry CHRISTmas”, to we wish you a swinging holiday.
All children, parents, employees, and taxpayers associated with the Medway public schools have been discriminated against, which is clearly unconstitutional,
The Supreme Court has made numerous, precedent setting decisions that ensure that no government entity can promote or make policies that endorse any religion. Laws establishing any religion are forbidding in the Bill of Rights under the Establishment Clause of the 1st Amendment, which the court has continually upheld.
What the Medway school administration has obviously forgotten or purposely ignored is, in the same Bill of Rights under the Free Speech and Free-Exercise Clause of the 1st Amendment, the government cannot inhibit the exercise of personal religious speech, which is protected under said clause.
The high court has also created an abundance of precedence setting decisions that forbid discrimination against religious speech in public schools. Furthermore, the court has made it clear that religious speech is to receive equal treatment, but not preferential treatment.
The Equal Access Act, which became law on August 11, 1984, and upheld as constitutional in 1990 by a vote of 8-1 by the Supreme Court, is the remedy for the children, parents, taxpayers, businesses, and employees in Medway that want CHRISTmas trees and songs like “We wish you a Merry CHRISTmas” within their public schools.
The Act asserts that no public secondary school, as determined by state law, receiving federal funds, can oppose or prevent meetings on school property by student religious or political groups. With some limitations, parents, and in many incidences, teachers, can also attend.
Therefore, all the numerous people that have expressed there condemnation of this attack on CHRISTmas, the children, parents, and employees of the Medway public schools, must take action. They must strive to educate the children, teenagers, and young adults in the Medway public schools, all schools in Massachusetts and throughout the United States, that they can have CHRISTmas trees and sing songs like “We wish you a Merry CHRISTmas” within their public schools; especially if their school administration creates policies that ask you to call something a magical tree or sing a song wishing you a swinging holiday.
Robert J. Badzmierowski
Former Selectman Town of Bellingham
Former candidate for State Representative Commonwealth of Massachusetts
79 Caroline Drive
Bellingham, MA 02019
1-508-498-3583
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Here We Go Again!
As reported today by the local rag in Milford:
MENDON -- A state inspection last week is expected to identify many "serious issues" with the Fire Department’s main building.
This was predicted several years ago at the time the people in the know were formulating a plan for the Police Station that was and still is a pathetic structure. Neither of these buildings that house the entire public safety infrastructure of our town would pass building codes in a third world country.
It is interesting to note that in the case of the Police Station, the renovated structure as it now stands was designed and built by a State of Massachusetts building inspector, none other than our own Tommy Hackenson, the behind the scenes puppet master who masquerades as Mendon's Building Inspector. Tommy still thinks that there are no problems with that building.
So what has happened during the 4 1/2 years that have intervened since the defeat of the proposed police station that would solve the problems?. . . . . Not Much.
Now the State watchdogs have found out the Fire Station and Mendon is on their radar screen. With nothing done to fix the problems at the PD will the State give Mendon a pass again? Will they buy the “Joint Facility” is on the way story? Time will tell.
Look for inaction by our elected leaders. Meddling by Hackenson through his shill Sharon Cutler and hundreds of thousand more wasted tax dollars as a result. Mendon taxpayers and it’s public safety employees deserve much better.
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