In honor of all the fall football stars just waiting for their chance to pound the turf at Veterans Memorial Stadium, during the 2020-2021 Everett High School fall sports season, we are showcasing snap shots of newspaper clips from the past, each including some of the biggest names and games in EHS football history.
By JOSH RESNEK
In our last two editions over the past two weeks the Leader Herald has questioned with news stories and an editorial how and why convicted felons are allowed to be working as municipal employees by the city of Everett.
The city charter in spirit and word forbids employment by the city of Everett anyone who is a convicted felon.
Let us be clear, this makes it illegal as well as illegal and unethical for there to be city hall employees, school department employees and members of the police and fire departments who are convicted felons.
It appears on its face that the Everett city government does not have much interest in upholding the edicts placed upon them by the city charter and their sworn oath to uphold it – along with upholding the Constitution of the United States.
To this point in time since first reporting that the city of Everett in fact employs convicted felons, no one in a position of responsibility has uttered a word in public about it.
Continue reading “Leader Herald seeks city CORI records”By JOSH RESNEK
City councilors are presently elected at large by citywide vote despite having a special category of at-large councilors.
If this sounds confusing, it is.
A few years back, the city changed the electoral process to have ward councilors voted in by a citywide vote instead of a ward vote only.
This was part of the redoing of the City Charter.
Is this fair, is this just and politically right?
Councilor Wayne Matewsky believes a ward councilman should be elected by the ward voters only.
This issue was brought before the city council Monday night.
“I only want to do what is right,” said Matewsky. ‘I am trying to correct something that is wrong,” he added.
Any return to yesterday requires the affirmative vote of the council as well as a petition being presented to the House and Senate and passed by the legislature.
Continue reading “One vote to restore ward representation”
By JOSH RESNEK
The city of Everett is advertising in a variety of places for an Assistant Assessor, Affordable Housing Program Manager, a Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and a Communications Specialist/Public Information Officer.
One of the venues the city is using to advertise the positions is the widely popular and well-read MASSterList Job Board, which reaches about 25,000 professionals and politicians and state agencies as well as institutions of all kinds on an everyday subscription website: MassterList@massterlist.com.
The eye catchers in this group are the Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Communications Specialist/Public Information Officer.
“The City of Everett is looking for a dynamic leader to help drive organizational change around diversity, equity and inclusion. The Director will design and implement organization-wide DEI efforts, and help shape a healthy and inclusive culture where everyone can grow and thrive. We are looking for a candidate with a deep understanding of diversity challenges and an ability to lead systemic change. This position reports directly to the Mayor and collaborates with senior leadership and other key stakeholders to advance our diversity and equity initiatives, and overall inclusion strategy,” is how the advertisement reads on MASSterList.
Continue reading “Wanted: new talent, city cast wide net”
By JOSH RESNEK
When it comes to going public on the great issues of the day, Councilor Gerly Adrien leads her colleagues on the city council and goes to places where most of them do not wish to venture.
In what she refers to as her end of September Update to residents, Adrien decried racism, highlighting the Breonna Taylor murder during a mistaken police drug raid, asked for the advance of police reform and equity “even though I get backlash because it is crucial to have uncomfortable conversations to change what we have going in Everett.”
In public and private conversations, the mayor and some of her council colleagues, have complained that Adrien is not suitable as an Everett voice because she doesn’t carry the party line.
As the first woman of color to serve on the Everett City Council, Adrien has been blazing a trail all of her own during her first nine months in office.
Her conversations about racism in the public forum have not sat well with her colleagues, or the mayor, who has distanced himself from her and who basically excludes her from city debates, celebration and announcements he tries to manipulate and control.
Continue reading “Adrien calls for racial reform, justice”