Takeover of Parlin Library Should be studied; and opposed

The mayor’s lust to control and to manipulate every organ of the city government and the services it delivers, and to demand from every city employee their absolute allegiance or they will be threatened withtermination, cannot and should not be allowed to pollute the offices of the administration, the leadership and the rank and file at the city’spublic libraries.

The mayor, his city solicitor and his chief of staff are right nowpreparing a takeover by the city of the library from the Board of Trustees, which is chaired by Attorney Michelle Capone, the wife ofCity Councilor Attorney Fred Capone.

Capone and her fellow board members have done a stellar job of administering the library.

The library right now is about the last refuge for administration free of the mayor’s nasty grasp.

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A coming traffic nightmare Is nearly upon us?

The expected opening of the casino at the end of June is going toresult, at least in the short term – for the first six months – with a trafficnightmare none of us have prepared ourselves for or maybe not.

After all, how do you prepare for an onslaught of traffic such as thereis expected to be if the casino opens at the end of June as expected?

It is a bit like trying to prepare for a tsunami or a cyclone.

It is one thing to know a potential traffic nightmare is almost upon us. It is quite another thing to prepare ourselves for it without knowing exactly how great a problem it is going to be when the doors open. No one right now can predict with any accuracy what the level of traffic difficulty will be when the casino opens.

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A giant what if regarding Encore And the future of the casino

The Massachusetts Gaming Commission is beginning Tuesday and ending Thursday three days of long awaited testimony that will lead to a number of possibilities that are all of extraordinary importance to the city of Everett and everyone who owns property here or who has applied for a job at the casino/hotel site almost completed.

These hearings will determine – the decision the MGC makes after hearing testimony for three days – will result in Encore being granted its license neat and clean, no fuss or mess about it.

That is the first possibility and perhaps the most unlikely.

The second is that the license will be granted but with conditionsand a huge fine.

This is entirely possible and bettors say it is the most likely of the outcomes we can outline here on this editorial page.

The third possibility, and considered most remote – but a possibility -is that the MGC will find Encore unsuitable to hold a license for casinogaming in Massachusetts.

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City hires legal defense team; depositions taken

Wellness Center issues coming to the forefront


By Josh Resnek

The city has hired the high priced Boston law firmNixon Peabody to defend itself against allegations made about sexual harassment and bullying by a former member of the Wellness Center staff implicating her superiors in an action coming before the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.

Last week, at least four to five employees at theWellness Center were deposed by Nixon Peabody lawyers, according to a source who wished to remain unnamed.

Those deposed included a number of employees at the Wellness Center, including its new director, and most likely, its former director and several others apparently named in the MCAD complaint filed by the former employee.

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AG charges auto shop owner dented cars, stole $170,000 in bogus insurance claims

By Josh Resnek

Adam Haddad of Shrewsbury, the owner of an auto body shop in Everett just across from the Encore Casino, and in Worcester, has been indicted on 42 charges, including 18 counts of insurance fraud, Attorney General Maura Healy announced Monday.

Authorities say Haddad use sledge hammers and mallets to further damage cars he was repairing in order to obtain higher insurance payouts.

Haddad, 42, has been in a war with his Everett landlord, the owner of the property that houses his body shop on Mystic Street.

Last month he filed a lawsuit in Federal Courtclaiming the property’s owner, Rocco Vigorito,wants to cash out on a $10 million offer for hisproperty from Wynn Resorts, and that Wynn Resorts has been conspiring with Everett BuildingDepartment officials to terminate Haddad’s lease sothe property can be conveyed.

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