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– News from and commentary by Quincy Quarry News

Fishy and other rotten doings in the Q continue!

With the Fourth of July long holiday weekend fast approaching, one would like to think that Q-up’s in the Q might finally abate – at least for awhile anyway.

Monkeying around as usual
An old Stooges photo

But no, it continues to be monkey business as usual in the Q.

For example, after what was surely not a nationwide search, the City of Quincy City Council named a former ward Councillor from long ago as the newly appointed Assistant City Clerk.

Then again, rumor has it that this coat holder of an appointment had pretty much worn out his welcome with the rank and file at his former hack hire post at the City of Quincy’s Department of Public Works. 

Apparently, it had a great deal to do with overtime pay paid that some felt was not to be paid to appointed non-union middle management types who don’t get their hands dirty.

In any event, here’s hoping that at least the new Assistant City Clerk is better able to speak as well as clearly at city council meeting than his new boss as well as control his oh of so curious sort of a laugh.

Then again, constant waivings of the readings when the City Clerk does have to speak at city council meetings does make the meetings move along less slowly.

Regardless, so much for new blood in the New Quincy as the old Quincy instead continues to run Quincy into the ground.

A pedestrian traffic light for a private driveway – WTQ?
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

And for another example of the myriad of trafficking problems in the Q, in recent days the South Shore Broadsheet ran a six or so part expose on pedestrian safety in the Q in what Quincy Quarry can only view as a copycat effort in the wake of the Quarry’s all but innumerable as well as far earlier exposés on trafficking in the Q.

Also problematic for the Q is yet another hard-hitting survey spotted by the Quarry that ranked the Q as among the bottom 10 worst suburban communities within the 128 beltway, excluding Boston.

Drink the Kool Aid, drink the Kook Aid
A Facebook photo

And finally, the Koch Maladministration was able to slip it to the Q with the passage of its master grift of a plan for Quincy Center and which would clearly appear to be the usual suspect suspects benefit. 

Whether – or far more likely not – the latest joch of a plan to make Quincy Center great again can avoid hitting the fan as have all of the others to date and then all but assuredly bleed local taxpayers citywide for perhaps as long as decades to come remains to be seen.

Shady characters
A Warner Brothers masterpiece

With shady deals made behind closed doors with often even shadier character both rife and rumored, wearing a raincoat is advised to protect oneself from the fan splatter when things all but assuredly finally do hit the fan.

In any event – as well as always, Quincy Quarry continues to be the news source to turn to for news as things continue to rot from the head in the Q.

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