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Extend Tahiliani’s Contract

EDITOR’S NOTE:

John Puopolo, one of the leaders of the political uprising against the DeMaria Administration’s excesses has written to all the members of the School Committee pleading with them to vote to keep Superintendent Priya Tahiliani and to extend her contract. The following is his message and two responses. – JR

Good Day All,

I am writing to you in support of Superintendent, Ms Tahiliani, receiving a contract extension. She has proven to be extremely well qualified for the job she holds. She has assembled an excellent staff with her hires. The Superintendent has led her staff through some of the most challenging times anyone has faced in Everett even while others were working against her.

Coming into Everett’s education system, which has been in turmoil for many years do to the prior superintendent who you all know is embroiled in law suits because of his bad behavior, was no easy task. Ms Tahiliani has performed admirably under such circumstances. The culture has needed and continues to need significant change which she has proven she is up to the task and will continue to effectuate change as she already has.

Almost upon arrival she met Covid, a situation never experienced by anyone in her roll. With no road map for what to do in a pandemic, she quickly created her own road map with her Team to successfully maneuver through the un- precedented situation.

She is clearly considered above average by her peers as she was named the top superintendent in Massachusetts an extremely prestigious award. She is moving our education system in the right direction and must be allowed to continue to finish what she has started. She is very good for Everett.

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Up-Scale Housing Starts Don’t Approximate Need For 400,000 Units

By Josh Resnek

There are right now several thousand new apartment units going up in Everett and along the Chelsea line.

On Everett Avenue in Chelsea, where Floramo’s stands, there will shortly be a building taller than the ten story FBI regional headquarters about 100 yards down the street.

**The Pioneer apartments on the Parkway.**

This structure portends development to come in Everett.

That building will house biotech-research companies.

Off the Parkway in Everett plans for a 21 story residential building have already been approved.

Final financing arrangements are awaited and are expected.

One way or another, it appears Everett’s former industrial land on the east side of the Parkway will hold a number of skyscrapers with many hundreds more units.

Something like 1,400 building permits for apartment and condo projects have been pulled in Massachusetts so far this year.

Estimates vary on how many new units are needed to allow for the year to year expansion of the housing market to meet the demand of those seeking living units.

The Sunday Globe reported that Massachusetts needs 400,000 units in the next year to accommodate those coming into the rental and or the condo marketplace locally and across the state.

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From A Source Close To The US Attorney’s Probe

By Josh Resnek

The Leader Herald interviewed a source claiming to be close to the Everett probe being conducted by the US Attorney.

Here is what he told the Leader Herald:

“I think we know the probe will implicate Carlo DeMaria and many others in his orbit at city hall.

“We know that as they continue to dig there will be more and more information to ask for.

“We know the journalism in the area is to be heralded because what was once seen as biased reporting is now a chief source in the investigation as much of the reporting has been proven.

“And there will more to come about corruption, conspiracy, and retaliation.

“We know that over 50 incidents have been detailed and reported to the US Attorney by everyday citizens who are fighting for justice for the city of Everett.

“Every day Everett people “new Everett people” are leading the crush.

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ROLLINS INVESTIGATING LONGEVITY MERRY-GO-ROUND THAT GAVE MAYOR $180,000 INSTEAD OF $10,000?

It isn’t racism but some believe it’s a slam dunk

By Josh Resnek

What exactly US Attorney Racheal Rollins has ordered her Assistant US Attorneys and the FBI to do regarding the Everett probe she has initiated is information only they share between themselves.

They do not talk with journalists, lobbyists or powerful attorneys about investigations and probes.

Anyone who says they do is lying.

When the mayor tells his followers “nothing is going to happen, that the probe will turn into nothing,” he, too, is being a bit too optimistic.

We know this, the city was supposed to have turned over all the information Rollins was seeking from the mayor and the city by this time in July. Rollins apparently detailed the records she sought in a four page annotated letter to the city about four weeks ago.

Like most prosecutors who know what they are doing, Rollins likely asked for documents, recordings and videos she wants to see. She might have asked for e-mails and texts. What she will especially note are those items not produced or labelled “missing” that she is expecting.

The US Attorney’s office sets it own speed limit and determines how fast it wants to go, and when to slow down, and when to move ahead boldly.

That being said, there are those who claim to know what the US Attorney is up to with Everett, and the cast of racist characters who traded memes and racially charged e-mails and texts with one another in 2021 – much of which has been written about or reproduced in the Leader Herald.

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