Breaking Bad News
Let’s face it, we all secretly love finding about bad news – at least so long as it doe not involve us personally, especially in ways criminal and/or financially painful.
As such, this is where Quincy Quarry aficionados can get their daily fix of breaking badly badly news© – be it local, national and/or international.
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City of Quincy Trees Dying In Droves From The Drought
Quincy Quarry New’s arborists Paul Bunyan VI and Fredrick Law Olmsted risked mad dogs and Englishmen in the midday sun so as to survey the damage the drought has done to many hundreds of trees planted by the City of Quincy in recent years.
MBTA announces a month-long closure of the opened just a month ago Green Line Extension to Somerville #mbta #charliebaker, #mayorkoch
In a late breaking pile of breaking badly bad news© broken on a Friday so as to take advantage of a weekend in the hope that public rancor might abate over the weekend, the T announced it will be closing the Green Line Extension for a month
Quincy Center traffic light fail gives rise to snarled evening commute traffic #mayorkoch #cityofquincy #tpal #quincypolice
A Citizen Traffic Monitor then only responsibly called the Quincy Police Department, only to be told that the department had no officers available to respond to the scene.
MBTA workers damage third rail during overnight track work on the Red Line
On the first overnight of a planned two week project to redo Red Line track given a laundry list of fixes mandated by the Federal Transportation Administration, MBTA repair equipment derailed near the Quincy Center Red Line station around 1:45 AM in the wee hours of this morning.
Quincy COVID-19 Infection rates continue to climb
Further troubling, while the statewide average for infections is 9% higher than is the case in Quincy, the local testing positive rate continues to run a troubling half again higher than the statewide average.
Pedestrian death rate rose despite fewer miles driven during COVID-19 pandemic in 2020
While motor vehicle traffic dropped by 16.5% after the pandemic hit the fan a year ago, the pedestrian fatalities were unchanged and so increased the rate of pedestrian fatalities per vehicular mile driven by 20%.
Quincy COVID-19 Cases Uptick
The testing positive rate in Quincy is a now troubling half again higher than the statewide average.
Quincy hit with four more COVID-19 fatalities
After going a statistically improbable five weeks since the last local COVID-19, the City of Quincy announced well after City Hall closed on Friday that four deaths had occurred over the past week.
Quincy’s Credit Rating gets a black eye
Standard and Poor has slapped the City of Quincy with a negative outlook on its credit rating.
Two Robberies of Elderly Asians in North Quincy Spark Fear and Concern in Local Asian-American Community
That and how there is a history of such racially targetted muggings dating back over at least a decade in Quincy.
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