Prop 2 1/2
After studying about how the Healey Administration has been shorting cities and cities within the Commonwealth and studying about what number of overrides have occurred lately for these municipalities to afford tasks, it’s clear that this Legislature is trying to do away with Prop 2 1/2.
Will probably be the one approach they’ll argue that cities and cities will afford something transferring ahead. Particularly with the egregious and continued overspending on migrants and various vitality applications. They may co-opt some group to get a poll initiative and outdoors cash will pour in to assist get it handed. It’s coming.
RJ Murphy
Peabody
Markey future
Your reviews of the Senatorial battle between 79-year-old Ed Markey and 46-year-old Seth Moulton has me asking why, in the end, Sen. Markey doesn’t announce that as a substitute of looking for re-election, he’ll go on to a different profession. For instance, he may work as a fundraiser for a non-profit, or he may write a e-book about his prolonged profession in politics.
I’m not suggesting that Markey retire. Nevertheless, I consider I’ve set an instance that Markey may take into account. I hit age 83 this 12 months, and I’ve introduced to my regulation agency that I’m leaving (not retiring). I’ll occupy myself with two long-delayed tasks.
First, I might be writing a mix memoir of my very own profession as felony protection and civil liberties lawyer and creator, and of the profession in portrait pictures of my late spouse Elsa Dorfman. Second, after I’ve completed that e-book, I plan to co-author, with Sarah Lawrence professor of political science Samuel Abrams, a sequel to my e-book “The Shadow College: The Betrayal of Liberty on America’s Campuses.”
For me, leaving the regulation was the top of 1 profession however the begin of one other. Markey ought to announce he’s getting out of the race and turning to his second act, no matter it might be.
Harvey A. Silverglate
Cambridge
Mass. financial system
A latest editorial within the Herald raises questions in regards to the present and future state of the Massachusetts financial system in a extremely aggressive nationwide development and labor market. The questions revolve across the facets of why financial development is missing in comparison with different states, primarily these within the South.
Primary components embody low enterprise favorability based mostly on laws and taxes, excessive revenue and property taxes, and the excessive price of housing in Massachusetts, primarily in Larger Boston and Jap Massachusetts. One solely has to spend time or go to states together with the Carolinas, Tennessee, Texas and others to see the enterprise and development of their economies.
The fundamental concern we now have is elected officers on the state and federal stage who’ve restricted non-public sector expertise and by no means discuss rising or increasing the financial system within the state. Have you ever ever heard any of those elected officers increase the query on increasing the Massachusetts financial system? They’re to busy with discovering fault with Donald Trump.
Fran Bogdanowicz
Longmeadow
