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Wait, who's that sitting on that fireworks-strewn Mattapan basketball court?
By adamg on Thu, 07/06/2017 - 11:28am
Al Effendi supplied this enhanced photo of the Norfolk Street playground in Mattapan after the Fourth.
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I don't see anyone. All I see
I don't see anyone. All I see is trash on the court.
That's Charlie Baker's pick for president
That's Charlie Baker's pick for president. Christie is polling at 15% in NJ at the end of his second term. Anyone know what's holding up Baker's poll numbers?
Do you ride the T. Is it better now?
Does he get enough credit for trying to remove the cap on charters statewide? This was one of his main campaign issues.
Is DCF working?
Does Baker get enough credit for managing the budget in such a way that wall street reassessed the Commonwealth's credit worthiness?
Did you hear the state hired back a lot of the people who took Baker's early retirement package?
Are the big questions being answered and progress made?
I'll pick this apart
-The T isn't better, because it still isn't a thing that takes you somewhere directly upon immediate demand. Why this concept appears to elude so many public policy pundits, I don't understand. If you want more money for the T, vote for that kid with the autism who's always reported missing on UH, because he's the only person I've seen who appears to love the T more than an automobile.
-There doesn't need to be a cap on charters, because there's already a self-imposed cap on the number of good teachers. It's called "the pay sucks, the hours are terrible, and kids are brats." Those circumstances do a fine job by themselves of limiting the number of people who want to be teachers. So what school are you going to open? Who's going to staff it? Which of your friends wants to be a teacher but isn't?
-I don't know if DCF is any good now or not, since the news doesn't get viewers with a story about how the foster kid isn't getting slapped around, but I do know that their mission would be less labor-intensive if there were fewer kids. Gee, I wonder if an item exists that a guy can put over his (expletive) to reduce the chance of that happening. I wonder if a shot exists that a girl can get in her arm to reduce the chance of that happening. I wonder if there's an organization next to the Star Market on Comm Ave that gives this stuff out.
-I'm a budget geek, so I should have a wiseacre answer for that immediately, but I don't.
-I hope the rehire thing isn't true, that's precisely why Illinois is in the toilet. Maybe we could have used that money instead on the aforementioned contraceptive access for the uninformed.
Rehire certainly isn't true
Unless they mean "Lots of people retired and we need people in those positions so we hired new people" cause that's how jobs work.
All the people I know of that retired recently are still happily retired.
I must've screwed up the last
I must've screwed up the last time I tried to reply.
It is possible in some circumstances for someone who took the early retirement package to be "rehired"
It's not their old position - if they were that critical they wouldn't have been offered the package. It's part time (less than half time). I don't think they accrue any more pension or leave time. I think they have to wait some margin of a few months before they can start in these circumstances. There's a cap on how many hours they can work.
One of my neighbors took the early retirement package. He went back to the same agency, in his previous work group, but now he's a subordinate to his one-time assistant, coming in two days a week..
I think they call them "960" people - 960 being the annual cap on hours (960 being slightly less than half of a "full-time" year for someone on a 37&1/2 hour weekly schedule).
This is Boston related how?
This is Boston related how?
Mattapan
It's a neighborhood within the city of Boston.
I'll believe it when I see it on CNN.
HOLY COW!! IT'S TRUE!!
Awwww
Alt-right graphics poster thinks he's reeeeeeeealllll clever!
He's not, but he makes himself laugh!
Do you know where Mattapan is?
As for the Christie thing, no, he's not our governor. But go look at the six or seven items that preceded this on the home page: Murder, shootings, stabbings, armed home invasion. I needed a break and somebody meme-ing up a Boston photo was good enough for me.
What's Christie drinking (the
What's Christie drinking (the case at his feet)?
An 18-pack of Bud Light
A six pack of Smirnov Ice, a twelve pack of twisted tea, and a big can of Natty.
You needed a break?
You needed a break?
Imagine how the cops who responded to all that must be feeling.
Nothing compared to what you must've gone through ...
To type that note, I'm sure.
Please point to where I was comparing myself to the cops, EMTs and firefighters who respond on a daily basis to horrible scenes.
Go ahead, I'll wait.
Hey Chris...
your shadow's on backwards
Of course it's an enhancement
Of course it's an enhancement! You wouldn't expect His Highness CC to visit Mattapan!
This is true, he is the
This is true, he is the governor of NJ not MA after all.
Just because he's the
Just because he's the governor of NJ doesn't mean he's never been anywhere else in Massachusetts. I'm sure he's been to Boston proper.
Why would the governor of NJ
Why would the governor of NJ visit Mattapan?
Yeah
It's not like there's a closed public beach in Mattapan.
lol
lol
To see the new stretch of the Neponset River Trail
I cannot emphasize enough how nice it is.
While it is very nice is it
While it is very nice is it really part of Mattapan?
Thought it was Lower Mills.
Yes. It goes through Mattapan
Yes. It goes through Mattapan, Dorchester and Milton.
Depends
Is Mattapan Square a part of Mattapan? That's where the new section starts (or ends, depending on your perspective.)
Shhh!
He'll demand that it be closed so that just him and his family can use it.
Really, now!
Who knew?
As for whether he's actually been to Boston, why, yes, yes he has.