Quincy News: Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch missing?

404 Error or simple error-prone?
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Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch missing?

At least he is missing on the just revised and much-touted new City of Quincy website.

While quality control checking out the latest trumpeted accomplishment of the Koch Maladministration – a revised City of Quincy website, both the technical wizards at Quincy Quarry as well as one of its more active Citizen Journalists found all manner of glitches and bugs within the new site.

One of the many miscellaneous glitches includes that the restaurant search feature on intertwined and also local-taxpayer-funded Discovery Quincy website does not work properly.

Number One Ward Heeler promoting seafood?

As this sub-site is technically the responsibility of Quincy’s Number One Ward Heeler and self-proclaimed social media maven as well as that this site was itself updated many months ago, Quincy Quarry thus could not pass on the opportunity to point out the ward heeler’s latest Q-up on the city’s dime.

Problems with this particular linked website search feature include that Irish and Indian cuisine as well as calzones are listed in the American Cuisine section, but this same Indian restaurant is not listed under India Cuisine and thus begetting yet another online search mapping error shortcoming.

That and how a Town of Milton restaurant is inexplicably promoted on a City of Quincy taxpayer-funded website that is supposed to be promoting Quincy-based venues.

At the same time, easily the biggest glitch of all as well as a large thing to lose, Mayor Thomas P. Koch was not to be readily found on the city’s new website.

Specifically, if one does a site search with either of the following search – terms – “Mayor Tom Koch” or “Mayor’s Office” – below following is what came up over this weekend.

Lost in the web
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On the off chance that this massive shortcoming is fixed relatively soon, the above screenshot image has been herein preserved for eternity via The Wayback Machine. That and for eternal embarrassment.

Yet another Koch project that ran way over budget
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However, given the City of Quincy’s record for running late, over budget and its all but woefully inept information systems and lack of social media skills as well as expected post-Super Bowl fatigue and hangovers, one should not be surprised if the needed fixes take a while, if not a relatively long while.

Granted, the Mayor’s Office could be accessed by a direct menu tab click for it; even so, it would still appear that the Koch Administration is planning to uphold its long ongoing tradition of making it difficult to do even but the most basic of informational searches of the City of Quincy’s Public Records.

As always, following the money
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Further compounding matters, it must also be noted that a number of other 404 error messages were found all but pervasively while Quincy Quarry personnel endeavored to less than successfully surf the City of Quincy’s just as well as expensively revised website.

Accordingly, there has been considerable speculation within the Quincy Quarry newsroom as to just what may have happened.

After all, it’s been a slow weekend and one can only watch so much pregame blather about this evening’s Super Bowl game or play only so beer pong before the game if one hopes to be able to follow the game until its conclusion.

Aliens cause crop circles
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One theory as what may have happened was offered up by one Quincy Quarry wag: perhaps Mayor Thomas P. Koch has been abducted by aliens.

Alternatively, another newsroom wag opined that perhaps Mayor Koch has been whisked into a witless protection program in the wake of one-time real estate mogul and lifelong mayoral bff Dan FlynnFlam pleading out on Wednesday in federal court to multiple felony counts.

In the meanwhile, with City Hall closed for the weekend and surely many of its denizens warming up with a few cold ones before the Super Bowl kickoff as well as chowing down at buffet tables, there is no ready way for Quincy Quarry to reach out to City Hall for comment at this time.

That and for some funny reason, the Quincy Quarry does not expect City Hall to be off to fast start first thing tomorrow morning in the wake of tonight’s Super Bowl game.

Additionally, Quincy Quarry did not reach out to the Quincy Police Department to file a missing person report as technically a person has to be missing per criteria that the Quarry cannot as yet document as met in this apparent instance of someone being missing.