Quincy Quarry News Weekly Fish Wrap: A week as slow as molasses in January

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

“I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.”
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Quincy Quarry News Weekly Fish Wrap: a week as slow as molasses in January.

Given Q-ing freezing weather, a short workweek given the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr Day long holiday weekend, and last week’s hard-hitting to the stones coverage by the Quarry, this week was a slow week in the Q.

As for breaking new breaking badly bad news ©, that is, as Quincy Quarry is working on breaking a potential blockbuster of a story.

In the meanwhile, there were still a couple of developments with local significance.

Candidate Healey
A Jessica Rinaldi/Boston Globe image

First up, Quincy’s peerless mayor’s arguable guardian angel announced her bid to become the next governor of Massachusetts.

Needless to say, the Koch Machine is thus sure to soon be dialing for campaign fund dollars on her behalf.

Unclear, however, is if this time will the machine do better at not finding itself yet again tied to straw campaign donations.

And on another front, The Generals Bridge, Quincy Center’s bridge to nowhere, finally opened up for vehicular use over four months after upwards of a quarter-million dollars was spent on various dedication-related expenses tied to the bridge.

The lights are on but no one is using the bridge …
A Quincy Quarry News exclusive image

That and now the bridge has scored a new name: the bridge no one uses.

After all, if Quincy’s peerless mayor is known for anything, it is for spending money.

Spending lots and lots and lots of mostly other people’s money as well as all too often spent on his edifice complexes.

But not to worry, Mayor Thomas P. Koch has long said not to worry as it will all work out just fine in the long run.

Staying afloat in the meanwhile, however …

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