Listen as Marcus Ferro discusses with City Councilor Ian Abreu both the residency ordinance for City of New Bedford employees and helping small businesses.
During Commerce Secretary nominee Gov. Gina Raimondo s Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday, Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey renewed the call to bring a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research facility to New Bedford. The nation s first federal fisheries lab was established at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, in 1871 150 years ago, Markey said. The Northeast Fisheries Science Center is an invaluable part of Massachusetts fishery and science community. Governor, would you commit that NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center will remain in Massachusetts?
Raimondo said she would commit to looking into it and working on it with him. Markey then pressed her on a future role for New Bedford, asking if she would consider adding additional NOAA facilities in New Bedford and other areas of Massachusetts to provide the on-the-ground expertise on fishing and offshore wind.
NEW BEDFORD A 19-page document emailed to members of the New Bedford Police Union alleges about $674,000 in undocumented union spending since 2011, based on notes the author, a lieutenant, said they took while reviewing a financial report.
The document, obtained by The Standard-Times, is not an official report, but instead contains the opinions and detailed notes of the lieutenant based on their reported review of the financial report. I think all of those who had access to our funds need to answer to these expenditures. Each and every one, the lieutenant wrote. My motivation is not to stir the pot, embarrass or negatively affect anyone. Rather, as a member in good standing, I firmly believe this union needs to address what has occurred.
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POLLACK S NEW LANE President Joe Biden is filling his new administration with Massachusetts officials and experts, and leaving some big job openings here in the process.
As Gov. Charlie Baker put it yesterday, he s said goodbye to quite a few colleagues in the last several weeks the mayor of Boston, the governor of Rhode Island, two members of his medical advisory board, and now, one of his best-known cabinet secretaries.