Matt Maddox sets example mayor should follow

The CEO of Wynn Resorts Matt Maddox, no stranger to Everett, has shown what we would call a real profile in largesse by giving up 176,000 shares of his stock and dividing it up between 240 of Wynn Resorts executive leadership team.

The idea is to maintain Wynn Resorts core strength, its leadership team of executives who have kept the company alive during the pandemic.

Instead of Maddox hoarding his stock for himself the way the mayor has hoarded his salary increase while laying off key employees.

Maddox has spread the wealth around for the good of the company.

The mayor does not spread the wealth around for the good of the city or for those employed by the city who he believes are working for him, exclusively.

The mayor is in the game to create wealth, for himself.

He doesn’t care much who he tosses under the bus or who loses their jobs or who has their salaries cut.

He cares mostly about one thing and one thing alone, himself. Nearly everyone who knows him knows this.

They vote for him out of fear, not out of love.

When the pandemic was about to shut down Everett, the mayor went on vacation to Aruba.

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Baker appoints Michelle Capone

Irony is a big part of politics, always. It is one of the components of politics that can make simple acts by the mayor look foolish.

Such is the case with Governor Charllie Baker appointing Attorney Michelle Capone as a State Library Trustee.

The State Library was created in 1826. It is located inside the State House since 1895.

If anyone in this city should have been heading the Everett Public Libraries, it should have been Attorney Capone.

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We need to question the cities budget

Almost seven weeks into the fiscal year, and we have not seen the City of Everett Budget yet.

One might well ask: “What is this all about?”

Where is that rascal hiding?

Most of the surrounding cities have had their FY2021 spending plans posted for weeks.

No Everett.

A quick comparison of Everett’s budget with Medford’s reveals something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Everett has a population of 46,880 and covers 3.67 square miles.

Medford has a population of 57,765 and covers a land area of 8.66 square miles.

Medford’s FY 2021 total budget is $184,479,028.00, which represents a $2.7 million dollar increase over the FY 2020 amount ($181,786,680.00).

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How do we explain food lines?

Most of us understand we are the richest nation in the world.

Even the most poverty stricken among us have jobs, apartments and homes, flat screens, automobiles and cell phones, furniture, beds, electricity and water, public education and access to federal and state welfare.

How then, do we explain – how then can we explain – food lines that stretch hundreds of yards with the urban poor waiting for food handouts to supplement their meager incomes and the need for added food in their apartments and homes?

Not just here in Everett but all over the nation!

Passing out free food to the needy is noble.

The churches and citizens groups doing this in Everett throughout the virus crisis are to be commended.

However, the embarrassment of living in a nation we call the greatest in the world in the 20th year of the 21st Century where many of its citizens need to wait in line for free food so their families can eat – well, we might ask ourselves: “What the hell is this all about?”

Are we a third world nation?

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Wishing Dr. Easy a big win

The Everett School Department’s Dr. Omar Easy is a finalist to lead the Quincy Public Schools as its superintendent.

He is one of three finalists vying for the position.

Dr. Easy is one of our own.

He is a product of this city and he has served with distinction since becoming involved in public education here in 2012. He was one of this city’s greatest high school athletes and went on to the National Football League where he played for the Kansas City Chiefs and Oakland Raiders. He was always more than an athlete.

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