Quarry News Weekly Fish Wrap: A Dog Day in advance of the Dog Days of Summer

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

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Taking the end of the week first, Friday was National Take Your Dog to Work Day!

Why anyone would want to take their loyalest friend to work is a head scratcher, however, even if canine household member(s) would likely want to hang at work rather than be left alone at home after long enjoying the household breadwinner(s) working from home in recent years care of the COVID pandemic.

And as for the start of the week, it got off to hot start.

A very hot start.

First up, per Quincy police radio chatter someone was shot on or along Franklin Street; however, those in the car from whence the shots were fired apparently got away at the start of what was a three day holiday weekend shortened workweek.

Time flies …
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Next, up long time Quincy Police Chief and surely but coincidentally mayoral brother-in-law Paul (“The Beav“) Keenan retired on Thursday when he hit mandatory retirement age.

As for this news, the Quincy Quarry Newsroom was surprised that he lasted this long even though the Quarry’s news crew conversely has high hopes for the incoming new police chief.

Reasons for the positive sentiments about the new Police chief include that some years ago the new chief pretty much fingered the department’s double dipper.

Regardless, while The Beav may be gone, he will likely not be forgotten and thus much to snarky glee of the Quincy Quarry News new team.

Why so? 

He has been named as a co-defendant in a wrong death suit filed by the widow of a family man and by accounts great guy who was killed in Squantum by a subsequently convicted sucker puncher whose father is a retired Quincy police officer and his sister was at last report a local police officer.

“Whoa, take ‘er easy there, Pilgrim.”
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In any event, things then went relatively quiet on the often mean streets of Quincy after the Beav headed out of Dodge, not that anyone in the Quincy Quarry News newsroom expect things to remain quiet even if there is a new sheriff in town.

For example, at the last Quincy City Council meeting before the council went out for summer vacation, Mayor Koch’s consigilieri and real estate side hustler sought and secured the City Council’s approval to spend the summer developing a plan to develop massive zoning changes in response to recent Beacon Hill legislation which behooves Quincy to develop zoning changes.

The pending zoning changes will make it possible to develop roughly 11,000 new residential units in Quincy in venues that pose convenient access to Quincy’s four MBTA stations. 

FYI: 11,000 units are roughly a quarter of the current number of residential units in Quincy.

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Also note that the proposed zoning changes will greatly enhance the opportunity for connected insiders to build even more cheesy outsized apartment buildings in Quincy.

So what also for the fact that working from home and other place of working trends fueled by COVID have greatly reduced commuting via public transit nationally as well as how the sorry state of the MBTA even more so regionally.

In short, if you think traffic in Quincy is bad now …

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