Editorials – Page 39 – Everett Leader Herald

Pope John is a solution

Without wishing to sound like know it alls, we understand this: the Pope John facility is the best shorter term fix for the public schools overcrowding on the table.

And while Pope John is a solution, trailers for Everett’s public school children are not.

The time has come and is long overdue, in fact, to make a decision to move forward.

Each day that passes without a concerted effort being made to reduce the overcrowding problem it gets worse.

It does not matter what the council did about Pope John two years ago or three years ago.

That was then.

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Brady faces a new reality

It would appear that Tom Brady’s magical world, a place where all his dreams came true, is beginning to disintegrate.

The ageless wonder, pro football’s GOAT, is heading in a direction we cannot imagine.

He is getting divorced. If you’ve never been divorced and if you think celebrities private lives don’t matter, well, they do.

Getting divorced is messy business and it doesn’t matter if you are a blue collar working class stiff or a multi-millionaire handsome football player married to one of the world’s most stunning women.

When you choose football over your wife and kids at the age of 45, you suffer when your wife tells you she wants a divorce. Or maybe it was Brady who told Giselle he wants a divorce.

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The Last Gasps Of Warm Weather

If the warmer weather we have been experiencing were a person, then that person would be gasping for air in a battle to remain alive.

The warmer weather is not going to last.
Most of us don’t want to feel it go.

But we know it is doing a disappearing act.
Sooner rather than later we will be forced to turn on the heat in our homes or apartments.

This year that will be a costly act – that is – trading our money to stay warm at a time when it is going to cost more money to heat during a winter than ever before.

The price for electricity, gas and heating oil are all high and going higher.

Back to the point.

Enjoy what you can of these few precious days of warmth that remain on a calendar soon to be entirely devoted to the coming of winter.

The fall has been brilliant.

The leaves have turned and they are falling.

Soon the cold will grip us – and for many months.

That’s New England for you.

The Gold Standard

We applaud the mayor for demanding that the Pope John School be totally rehabbed at a cost of $76 million.

We also applaud his stated willingness to go through with the rehab should the city council vote for it.

We do not understand why the mayor is so unwilling to consider this a victory for himself and for his administration.

Rehabbing this school will mitigate a serious overcrowding situation that now exists.

Why does the mayor not see himself as a hero making this happen – and as soon as possible?

Superintendent of Schools Priya Tahiliani is all for the gold standard rehab.

Why not?

She would be ill advised not to accept a new school inside and out designed for 7th and 8th graders in what would become a junior high school.

The timeline for the mayor’s new incarnation for the Pope John School is about 2 1⁄2 years – maybe a little less or a little more depending on how construction moves along.

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Which Is It?

The developer of the Exxon Mobil property fails to sign the purchase and sale agreement and pulls out from the project – as reported in the Leader Herald and the Boston Globe.

What does the mayor say to that?

“They haven’t pulled out. They’re negotiating for a better price.”

The developer of the Pope John affordable housing project pulls out of the development.

“Pope John should be used as a school…we are no longer working on this project,” the developer writes in a published article.

What does the mayor say to this?

“They have not pulled out. They’re still working on the project.”

Either the mayor is not telling the truth and making up tall tales, or the developers aren’t telling the truth and making up tall tales.

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