Quincy Quarry News Weekly Fish Wrap: The Fish Wrap is back on schedule in advance of the MBTA’s Orange going off of the tracks on Friday #mbta #charliebaker #mayorkoch

Quincy Quarry News Weekly Fish Wrap: The Fish Wrap is back on schedule in advance of the MBTA’s Orange going off of the tracks on Friday

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Derailed Orange Line train in train yard
A file photo

Quincy Quarry News Weekly Fish Wrap: The Fish Wrap is back on schedule in advance of the MBTA’s Orange going off of the tracks tonight.

After weeks of the Fish Wrap wrapping up the news of the week a day or three after its targeted drop on Thursdays to Quincy Quarry News’ newsletter subscribers given the still ongoing crush of covering breaking badly bad news© involving the MBTA’s myriad of problems, the Quarry’s City Editor saw the Fish Wrap back on schedule by threatening to shutdown the newsroom’s self-service open bar.

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Will angry straphangers wreak vengeance”
An old graphic image

If only such was all that was needed to see the MBTA back on schedule …

For reasons ostensibly obvious, the Quarry’s City Editor did so so as to free up Quincy Quarry News resources so as to be able to at least endeavor to cover the expected Charlie Foxtrot when the MBTA shuts down Orange Line rail service tonight so as to then attempt to complete a (currently projected, ed.,) month-long makeover of at least this problematic MBTA subway rail line.

Deer in the media’s headlights?
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

Unfortunately, it continues to appear that scoring an interview with Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch to question him about the problems at the MBTA is still not likely to happen even if he is also the decade-long Chair of the MBTA Advisory Board as well as is the most senior member of the MBTA Board of Directors.

Rather, other than a precious few photo ops at carefully orchestrated events which did not include the opportunity for free-ranging Q&A by the media, Mayor Koch continues to be hunkered down in a spider hole underneath City Hall as well as arguably at least close to as did the Führer in the spring of 1945.

Burn Tommy burn!!!
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Then again, what with Quincy’s mayor facing multiple high-eight figure to perhaps low-nine figures in damages sought via ongoing litigation which the City of Quincy appears to be fated to lose, a potential civil rights violation lawsuit file by US Attorney Rachael Rollins given his years of vexatious koch-blocking of Boston’s lawful rights to rebuild its Long Island Bridge on its dime that could well then be followed by a high-eight to low-nine figure lawsuit filed by the City of Boston, possible problems with roughly $20 million in dubiously made land buys last year, and various other problems such as yet another outside investigation of the Quincy Police Department given a likely drunken house whacking by state trooper and which is surely but coincidentally headed by one of Mayor Koch’s brothers-in-law, one can readily imagine how the mayor would prefer to not be personally served by process servers, much less merely interviewed by anyone among the news media.

A Koch Problem bumper sticker graphic

Crapping out soon?
A file photo

Granted, one can only reasonably assume that Quincy’s peerless mayor expects to yet again grease his way out of these latest jams: however, Quincy Quarry is of a mind that surely at some point regression toward the mean will instead result in his finally hitting fan and so crapping out at taxpayers’ potentially stupendous expense.

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