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A meeting in Quincy’s old city hall
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This coming Monday night’s regular bimonthly City Council meeting has been cancelled.

The reason for cancelling the meeting?

As cited in the local weekly tabloid, the city council president said that as “(t)here was no business on the agenda this week.”
 
Like was really any other meeting when the council mostly but rubber stamps approvals of the mayor’s wishes and then typically say a few things about the recently departed.
 
Needless to say, cancelling the meeting will disappoint the few whole usually attend non-controversial meeting.
 
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Yes massa …
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In particular, the Quincy Quarry News staffer who who was assigned to cover the council meeting was especially disappointed.
 
The reason for the Quarry staffer’s disappointment?
 
Council meetings are fraught with amusing inside baseball as well as some of the best bad political kabuki to be seen in at least Eastern Massachusetts.  
 
Further, instead of paying overtime, Quincy Quarry covers a bar tab for anyone tasked with working after hours.
 
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Counting their raises too soon!
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Most curious, however, is why should councillors should have been looking been looking at a 45% raise this calendar year where it not put on hold given a Quincy Quarry News confirmed review by the State Ethics Commission on top of 33% raise a few years earlier if they are cancelling meetings.
 
In short — as well as yet again, only in Quincy …
 

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