Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap: Summertime and the snarking is easy!

– News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

Buffing the pavement?
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap: Summertime and the snarking is easy!

While Eastern Massachusetts continues to be bogged down dealing with this year’s soggy dog days of summer, Quincy Quarry News continues to pound the ever-increasing mean and lately often flooded streets of Quincy in the search of hard-hitting news while most of both its national as well as Greater Boston area media brethren are instead focusing on softball stories about where to find the best ice cream and suggested summer vacation book reading lists.

The late Brian McNamee’s favorite Sunday afternoon but now also late haunt
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

At the same time, as well as in all fairness, Quincy Quarry has to only properly concede that finding exposés about the so-called operation of the City of Quincy is as easy as it used to be to find a dive bar in Quincy Center.

That and how it is now relatively easy to find a parking space in the center given the still lingering impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic even if a number of curbside parking spaces have been lost so as to facilitate outside restaurant dining space.

Plus, Quincy Quarry was given a goldmine to work.  In fact, two of them.

One is continuing to monitor the over the top Obsessive/Compulsive landscape maintenance care of Quincy Square’s Kim Jong Koch Plaza.

And the other is how the public shaming of the City of Quincy’s Public Buildings Commissioner by the City Council during the council’s relatively recent review and approval of Mayor Thomas P. Koch’s Fiscal Year 2022 budget proposal has arguably fueled the repaving of one of Quincy’s numerous streets which are all but paved with pothole patches.

Pothole patches masquerading as a street
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

Granted, the Public Building Commissioner is not responsible for the maintenance of local streets, one would think that he should have a bit more influence with the powers that be.

After all, Quincy’s peerless mayor’s street was fully redone over four years ago – new underground utility lines, repaved, and even new concrete sidewalks even though the old ones were perfectly fine as well as just the sidewalk in front of the mayor’s house, along with his two doors down the street mother’s house, was redone less than a decade earlier.

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