Of course, I agree totally with everything it says, although awards aside, the DN has been kind of lagging recently in its coverage of the issue and seems content to play 'catch-up.' Having said that, they'll probably win an award next January for their coverage of the landfill issue ...
The mayor's intentions are good. He sees the big picture in the Crow Lane landfill fiasco and recognizes that the best way out of it is to get the landfill capped and closed as fast as possible. That means he has to work with the company that's been the root of this problem, New Ventures, and strike a deal that will end the moratorium on dumping and capping at the site and get the job finished.Well we all know that the possible secret deal fell through when Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria maybe spilled the beans at a meeting of the Everett Aldermen.
Most councilors interviewed by The Daily News didn't like the implications of the mayor's method. If the council objects to the deal, it has to sue the city, which none wanted to do. In effect, the council is rendered powerless.I think it's odd that the DN did not make the extra effort to interview Ward 5 Councillor Brian Derrivan (seeing as how the landfill is in his ward an all) for a story the day before ... and that Ward 1 Councillor Larry McCavitt doesn't really have a problem with an administrative order.
"This thing has been going on for long enough," McCavitt said, adding if it takes an administrative order to end it, "so be it."
"I don't have a problem with that," he said. "It looks like it's an extremely difficult route to the end. If the mayor can come up with a practical and effective way of doing it, I don't know why I would object."
With all the problems McCavitt cites around the DEP not enforcing its own regulations regarding the waterfront, I would have thought he wouldn't be so trusting of deals involving closing the landfill per the DEP's regulations.
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Whatever happened to Kay Lazar? I could be grasping at straws but it’s funny that New Ventures/Wood Waste does not get any attention anymore. No the AG’s announcements, not the lawsuits. NOTHING.
Then there is John Laidlaw that writes in the Globe about Everett every Sunday, all things their administration is trying to take credit for. If you look back and see the articles written about Newburyport and current events from Kay. Now, there is nothing on Newburyport with very newsworthy current events.
It’s seems funny to me.
Well, seeing as how I briefly was a freelancer for the Globe and then was "laid off" when they hired 3 FT people, I can hardly comment.
Well ... I could, but I won't ... except to say that I was told the landfill was one of the higher up editor's pet issues.
I don't know what happened.
Gillian Swart (although you were called Gillian Stewart) was a topic at the Everett Board of Alderman meeting. The city solicitor was asked to explain herself over Jack Morris's comments about not telling Everett to enter into a consent agreement and part of you article from the Current was read.
She NOW claims that Jack Morris did in fact say "cease and desist" however, when he heard all the evidence (and conveniently when she walked into the meeting, at the end of it) that he THEN said "consent agreement" Not one word was believable.
The Everett Mayor also claimed because he informed the Everett Board of Alderman that the landfill will be opened in 7-10 days, per something being worked out between him and Mayor Moak, that THAT was the reason Moak backed down. Because Newburyport's city council did not know FIRST and he should not have said anything. Not one word was believable there either. More to come but it looks as if Everett is starting a cease & desist on Wood Waste tomorrow, with the building department. His building department violation is being delivered tomorrow and Oh yea....the building department CLAIMS they did not know they can issue a violation on Wood Waste. They are starting to sound like our legal team.
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