Quincy Quarry News Weekly Fish Wrap: Crime Marches On!

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Trafficking in the Walmart parking lot
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The week past got off to a bad start with crime and drugs in Quincy as the prime problems.

First up, last weekend was fraught with drug overdoses given suspected especially bad batches of drugs hitting the ever-increasingly mean streets of Quincy.

Next up, an MBTA bus driver was apparently hit with a beatdown by an irate passenger.

The beatdown was then followed by a drug bust in the parking lot of Quincy’s Walmart.

No word, however, if the drugs seized included any of the particularly dangerous mix of drugs that spiked the recent local overdoses.

A little pick him up stuff
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Then a local family with a history involving drugs announced itsplans to withdraw its grift of an ask to both extend and cut the payments on its taxes and ground lease payments for the use of city property upon which the family operates a high-end and semi-private golf course. 

At the same time, this too was a grift. 

In fact, two grifts.

One grift was that the announcement was actually but a postponement per a dubious concern about problematic access to the golf course as its patrons currently have to flow through the dangerous Furnace Brook Parkway interchange with the Central Artery. 

Seeing red
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How bogus was this demur? 

Earlier this month Massachusetts Department of Transportation announced it was (finally, ed.) moving forward with plans to redesign and then reconstruct the interchange.

And as for the other grift? 

The postponement surely but coincidentally takes the controversial out of bounds lease proposal off of the table during Quincy Mayor Koch’s bid for reelection.

In other words, yet again Koch and mirrors …

Beauty and the Beast
Conjoined contenders’ campaign images

Speaking of Koch and mirrors, this week, the first of three mayoral candidate debates — of a faux sort anyway — kicked off with a mayoral candidates face-off on Koch Omnimedia, formerly known as Quincy Access Television. 

The debate featured but five questions asked, three of which were selected by long obsequiously compliant Koch Omnimedia personnel, as well as so resulted in all manner of whoppers then foisted by incumbent Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch.

The resemblance is gobsmacking!
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Unaddressed, however, was how much of a property tax increase will be coming in the fast approaching New Year so as to fund Mayor Koch’s record-setting near 10% increase in city spending during Fiscal Year 2024.

An increase in local property taxes for homeowners which Quincy Quarry has projected will likely run at least 7.5%, if not a bit more, unless Mayor Koch can pull a cooking jar out of his tukas. 

A very large, if not ginormous, cookie jar.

Moving along, what would be a week in Quincy without a pedestrian whacking? 

Not Quincy.

Accordingly, on Tuesday Quincy Quarry scooped news of pedestrian whacking on Tuesday.

And to wrap up the week came word of how at least the Town of Briantree’s fire department apes the Koch Maladministration’s family and friends hiring practices for City of Quincy jobs.

A Committee For Anyone Other Than Koch advert

“I’m in the money …”
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The better paying ones anyway.

In other words as well as yet again, Only in Quincy©.

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