Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap: The beat down continues in the Q

– News about Quincy from Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

ATTENTION!
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Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap: The beat down continues in the Q.

It was yet another rough week for the Koch Machine, not that this should come as any great surprise to anyone who believes in Karma.

First up, the City of Quincy had to call out the Massachusetts National Guard to help out with busing local students as the city had been experiencing trouble hiring a sufficient number of school bus drivers.

“We have the student and his piece in custody”
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And things then turned from not good to wicked bad within the school district when a student enrolled in the GOALS program on the campus of North Quincy High was caught packing a piece.

Fortunately, no shots were fired

Even better, both the student and his handgun were taken into custody by police when the student tried to flee to the nearby Red Line T station

Not to worry …
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Then, however, pronouncements of successfully handling the incident could be seen as a bit self-congratulatory over an event that could have both readily and relatively easily gone south in hurry with but literally the flick of an itchy trigger finger.

Plus, at this point, we do not know if this was the first time and only time that the student packed a piece to school.

On a bright note, city officials did this past week announced that they were opting to go with the environmentally-friendly use of goats to clear out undergrowth in the area of the Sailor Home Cemetary adjacent to Blacks Creek in the Wollaston neighborhood.

Eating news in the Q
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Even so, it is still only fair to note that Quincy Quarry has been chiding the City of Quincy for not using goats for a handful years as they have long been viewed as a best practices option for clearing away unwanted undergrowth for roughly at least as many decades.

In any event, things then yet again went south within the local public school district when word hit the fan that racist graffiti was put on a bathroom wall at South West Middle School; however, given student confidentiality rules, we are not likely to know what hurtful words were used.

At least not officially, that is.

Listing hard to starboard
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And for the final nail in the coffin in what was a rough week for the Koch Machine, Boston’s Acting Mayor Kim Janey announced that she was dropping her support of opting for relying on ferry service so as to fully reopen its mostly public health facilities on Long Island, so reaffirming previous administrations’ official and unofficial decisions to rebuild the Long Island Bridge,

Granted, Acting Mayor Janey is a lame duck and the two candidates who triumphed over her in the recent Boston mayoral primary election have announced that they find favor with ferry service.

Friends, Romans, Kochonuts….
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The reality: everyone knows the likelihood of campaign promises actually happening.

Plus, both candidates are sure to soon realize that opting for ferry service is at best only but perhaps viable to help facilitate the process of making Boston’s facilities on Long Island ready for reuse primarily in support of providing substance abuse facilities while the bridge is undergoing reconstruction.

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