Featured Articles
Below following are “snarq-filled” featured stories about the news of the day, with most of it breaking badly bad news©.
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J. Jonah White, Acting Publisher
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Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap: Play Ball!
<![CDATA[ – News from Quincy Quarry News with commentary added. Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap: Play Ball! The Weekly Fish Wrap took a day off last week. The reason: everyone in the Quincy Quarry newsroom was glued to the office flat screen watching the Senate Judiciary Committee Supreme Court nomination hearings. Plus, as much […]
Massachusetts Environmental Police Chief suspended without pay
<![CDATA[ – News covered by Quincy Quarry News. Massachusetts Environmental Police Chief suspended without pay. The toxic waste that has sludged up things at the Massachusetts State Police has apparently flowed over to the Massachusetts Environmental Police. After his involvement in all sorts of controversies in recent years, Environmental Police Colonel James […]
Massachusetts State Police Union Picks New President Amid Federal Probe Into Union’s Campaign Donations
Former union president Dana Pullman is said to have cited personal reasons for leaving his position. Reports indict that the personal reasons include apparent incidents of the union reimbursing union members for making campaign donations …
Massachusetts State Police Union Picks New President Amid Federal Probe Into Union's Campaign Donations
<![CDATA[ – News covered by Quincy Quarry News. State Police Association of Massachusetts (“SPAM”) picks a new president amid a federal probe into union’s campaign donations. When it rains, it pours even more. Former SPAM president Dana Pullman is said to have cited personal reasons for leaving his position. Reports indict […]
Inside the Secret Courts of Massachusetts
<![CDATA[ – News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added. Inside the Secret Courts of Massachusetts. In the darkest corner of Massachusetts’ justice system, criminal charges disappear often without a trace during so-called “just cause” hearings, reports the Boston Globe. There are few rules in these private hearings and fewer records. […]
New York Times Reports Housing Market Slows As Rising Prices Outpace Wages
<![CDATA[ – News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added. Housing market slows as rising prices outpace wages. The New York Times has reported that even in fast-growing cities or otherwise hot local economies such as Denver, New York and Seattle, selling prices for residential housing are rising more slowly and asking […]
Cattle Cause California Commute Congestion
– News covered by Quincy Quarry News. Cattle cause California commute congestion. Got milk? From the Left Coast comes word of an accident involving a livestock trailer in Stockton, California and the herd of cattle riding in the trailer taking advantage of the opportunity to go on the lam so as to […]
Attleboro mayor takes heat for donation plea to help pay his vet bills
– News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added. Attleboro mayor takes heat for donation plea to help pay his vet bills. Recent veterinary bills for Mayor Paul Heroux’s beloved dog “Mura” are such that he has privately asked friends and family to “chip in” to help cover the cost. But […]
Autonomous Vehicles Cannot Handle Fog, Rain, Sleet Or Snow
– News from elsewhere covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added. Autonomous Vehicles Cannot Handle Fog, Rain, Sleet Or Snow. A funny thing happened on the way to an autonomous vehicle future. As things stand today, driver-less autonomous vehicles cannot handle more than a dusting of snow. The same also applies to fog, ice […]
Disability advocates say Red Line shuttles are insufficient
– News covered by Quincy Quarry News as well as facilitated by it. Yesterday members of the members of Advancing Community Inclusion & Equality on the South Shore (“ACCESS”), a local disability rights group, demonstrated just how the shuttle bus service is woefully inadequate as a dozen wheelchair-bound individuals heading home from the annual […]
Feds seek $3 million in penalties from the Codfather
– News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added. The Feds seeks $3 million in penalties from the Codfather. The Feds’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration still has New Bedford’s former fishing mogul Carlos “The Codfaher” Rafael in its crosshairs. NOAA has issued superseding charging documents in its administrative case against convicted fish poaching […]
Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap: The Same Old Same Old Strikes Again?
<![CDATA[ – News and commentary about Quincy and elsewhere from Quincy Quarry News. Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap: The same old same old strikes again? While last week was quieter than the week before, it still had its low points. For but starters, yet again special parking privileges were apparently granted to favored workers working […]

















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