Dammit.. I acknowledge your very correct adjustment. Makes me mad I missed that! I hope your very smart self is doing good work that involves municipal government

Why thank you. :) Some days, although others days I’m bitchy or a coward and delete shit. But we are all human

My bad! I did miss that. Sorry! I’ll leave my comment up to accept my shaming

You know you spelled it wrong too, right?

Indicted, not indicated

The Board of Health is not required to allow a general public commen at the end of their agenda. But specific public hearings for septic permits, and other regulatory things, do require the ability to speak publicly at the public hearing. So, you are allowed to speak under state regulation about your neighbors variance request to build their leachfield closer than allowed by your town bylaw to a wetland, but you are not allowed to speak to a general concern about actions the Board of Health should take at the end of a meeting or whenever, unless the chair decides to recognize you.

I really think the state should make it required to allow some form of public comment with a reasonable time limits and reasonable topic limits at every public meeting. And I’m a public official… Take up an extra 30 minutes of my time in a meeting, please! If that means we have active invested residents, who care about what’s happening in the municipality, fuck yeah. Bring it on!

Depending on the agenda item, other laws require allowing public comment, such as Conservation Commission, Planning Board, ZBA, and Board of Health hearings. But public netting in MA you are right that MA doesn’t require allowing people to speak at public meetings in general.. Also know that the public MUST be able to speak at Town Meeting, but not every municipality has Town Meeting.

It really frustrates me that your municipality is considering shutting down public comment times in public meetings in regard to this decision. I’d suggest contacting your state representative and state senator, and show them the response your town is considering, and ask that they put forth legislation that requires allowing public comment periods with reasonable limits at all public meetings. I’ve worked in municipal government for 20 years (I’m regional now) and I would wholeheartedly support that legislation.

If you get a copy of the restraining order, you can have your county sheriff serve them. You can drop it off at their office and pay the service fee so you don’t have to worry about whether the police are going to do it or not.

Thanks for the anti-paywall work. Even though journalism should be a viable industry. And I’m pleased to see that I think they made the right cal. I am firmly on the socialist path, but the right to free speech and right to political beliefs is supposed to be for everyone, even people I strongly disagree with. And the tweets provide evidence that one officer was not upholding the rule of law. Whether the other one believed the same is not relevant. I wonder if they do, and I don’t approve of their beliefs, but without evidence that they won’t uphold the rule of law, police are allowed their own political opinions, affiliations, and congregations.

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That’s has nothing to do with Springfield and a railway. That’s the CDCs page on gentrification and there is NO tie in to the topic at hand.

Bye troll

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Link to them then. You haven’t supported anything g you said. Provide sources or stop talking to me. I have real work to do benefiting the region.

How does improving the economy is a specific area NOT benefit the people living in it? Jobs? Food? Accessibility to services, medical care, businesses… if your concern is keeping people for other areas out, that’s just ridiculous. And I see nothing from you backing up the negative impacts to Worcester and NH from adding public transport like railways. You need to back that shit up with evidence and studies.

You do know the gentrification is not the result solely of expanding public transport right? Have you seen the housing prices in the last three years WITHOUT the railway? Please, use sources or stop talking to me. I have real work to do.

The east west rail is NOT the MBTA. It can connect and work in conjunction with the MBTA. And you can’t just spitball with no evidence. Try reading the earth of documents that have been a published that I linked you too. And perhaps submit questions to the PVPC about the impacts of a trolley system in Springfield. Because it’s been rejected as a viable idea a bunch of firm. They’ll have peppers to back it up

By the way, where do you think Springfield gets his water from? It draws water from a variety of small hill towns in the valley. Springfield depends on the entire valley to function. Where do you think people who use the businesses in Springfield live? Elsewhere in the valley you’re being very shortsighted in offensive with your statements, and you can’t back any of it up with evidence.

The region does NOT mean the soil. And it’s offensive that you think my sourced comments about economic benefits for the people in the region means I think I’m special. No. It means I do this work for a living and I understand how the rail will benefit the people in the region by creating economic development, local wealth, and jobs. Without sources showing backing up your analysis, your comments don’t mean anything. And your inflammatory response with complete inaccuracies do not help you.

Plus, it seems like the only thing you care about is Springfield. More people live in the valley than they do Springfield. And a trolley system in Springfield? Seriously, show me one needs assessment that suggests that Springfield would benefit from that. Show me one place that says that would be better than what PVTA already has.

The region is the soil… god, I can’t. The amount of bullshit in this one comment would take me pages to deconstruct and I have to get back to actually improving the environment and economy in the Pioneer Valley in my professional state level position. So again, until you have sources that mean something instead of ranting about things you don’t understand, bye!

Okay, aren’t you the guy who said fuck Bostons, who about some economic development for Springfield, but now you don’t give a fuck about the region? The one that has Springfield in it? And no way did you read anything about the studies of economic benefits to Springfield. You are ignoring evidence and being a weird NIMBY about anyone from Eastern Mass. Based on this, and the fact that your account is not even two months old, I’m done. Bye!

The proposed east west rail doesn’t just go Springfield-Boston. It would go all the way to Pittsfield. Thereby connecting the Berkshires with the Valley. It would also connect Springfield & Palmer to Worcester. I’d suggest looking over the wealth of study documents on that page. It’s not just a high speed train from Springfield to Boston. It would connect a bunch of economically struggling and isolated areas in Western Mass together. It is uniformly supported by all the western regional planning agencies: BRPC, FRCOG, PVPC. Specifically for the economic benefits to our region. For real!

I’d actually disagree there. The east west rail wouldn’t just feed Boston, it would connect people on the Berkshire’s to Springfield and the rest of the Pioneer Valley. My planning agency is fully behind that rail idea exactly because it would bring eco dev into Springfield and the Valley, by connecting more of Western Mass together. I mean, screw all the focus on the eastern end of the state, but the east west rail would greatly benefit economic development in Springfield, Holyoke, etc.

Edit: This guy is a brand new account and explicitly says below that he doesn’t give a fuck about the region and it’s economic development. He’s full of shit.

The people who live and work in Boston are incredibly Boston centric and don’t even realize we exist as a real economic center or that the PioneerValley has so much more to offer then just pretty views. Of course, now they all want to move out here and work remote from home while telling us how we are supposed to do things the Boston way. It fucking pisses me off. You and I are definitely on the same page.

Edit: and you are right, the people out in that area or remote working in Boston only see where the money needs to go in Boston. Even if they live here, they are so focused on Boston is the only place that needs funding that it is so frustrating.

You’d be surprised how many agencies in western mass are pushing very hard for exactly what you’re saying. We get ignored for Boston, all the time, and when I am in grant review programs, I repeatedly let them know that it is not just the Boston area that has issues. But there has been some huge economic development push in Springfield, the casino was a big part of that. The fact that it backfired doesn’t mean people aren’t pushing eco dev Springfield.

Nope. You didn’t do your job first, I’m not obligated to engage with somebody who is calling me brainwashed. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😫 Bye!

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Lol, sure thing. Bye!!

Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!! Stockholm syndrome and dunning Kruger? Oh my god.. you have no idea what you are linking to. You think I identify with my kidnappers? Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!!

And that source is not credible no matter how many times you pretend it is.

Bye!