Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap: Dumping Memorials and Faking New Ones?

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Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap:  Dumping memorials and faking new ones?

This past week Quincy Quarry tried to be good what with Santa coming.

Now, however, it’s back to QQ you as per the Quarry’s usual practice.

For example, Quincy Quarry broke the story of how the City of Quincy opted to use as landfill engraved memorial bricks donated to the City of Quincy years ago when it needed private donations to undertake a previous modest remodeling of the grounds around City Hall.

Memorial bricks boneyard
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So what, apparently, for the fact that many – if not most – of the trashed bricks look to be in perfectly good condition for recycling in – say – a brick walkway or as brick pads under park benches in any number of city-owned venues around the Q.

Hospital, what hospital?
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And next up, Quincy Quarry also scooped the exposé of an oddly inverse Q-up by the Koch Administration: roughly thirty of the relatively new streetlights along the route of the Hancock Street Misalignment Project have what look to be several decades of commemorative plaques on them to memorialize various parties’ donations of streetlights to the City of Quincy almost thirty years ago.

Those so feted include entities both now long gone as well as long favored local Big Dogs who are still around as well as whom apparently City Hall does not care to upset or otherwise lose potential favors in the future.

Beware of air-dropped guano
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Moving on, on the national front, Quincy Quarry covered Politico’s feature on how Donald Trump learned how to post on Twitter and then rode his new skill to help him make a hostile takeover of the White House.

That and then laid waste to both political comity as well as civil discourse around the world.

Additionally, Quarry also reprised a well-detailed story on how much of the social media content on the internet is – well – fake.

Quelle surprise …

Faking it …
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That and how more than just a few purported online retailers at least border on suspect.

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