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Wednesday, June 16, 2004
DO AS THEY SAY. But not as
they do: Jack Meyers reports
in today's Boston Herald that one of the Boston police unions
taking part in the FleetCenter blockade hired non-union contractors
for $75,000 in repairs to its own headquarters. Meyers
writes:
Union officials admitted
to the Herald they gave the work to a cop's relative, following a
policy to favor blood relations over union brotherhood.
"We have a policy where we try
to give [contracting work] to police or police-related
family-owned companies," said Jack Parlon, head of the detectives
union.
HINDUSTAN VIA HOOSIERVILLE.
The Herald's computers are at it again. A month ago, the
Herald website included a reference to Indian Orchard, in
Western Massachusetts, and sent
readers to an archive of stories about India. Today, the
same thing happens with a
Cosmo Macero (sub. req.) reference to Indiana.
Does anyone care? Probably
not.
MICHAEL GOLDMAN, LYING LIAR.
Earlier this week Goldman sent out an e-mail - complete with photo -
telling everyone he was going to join a group of topless female
mujahadeen warriors. (Sorry, you'll have to take my word for
it.)
Today comes the truth: the longtime
Democratic political consultant's talk show for Bloomberg
Radio, called Simply
Put and currently heard on weekends, is going daily. Boston
Globe columnist Scot Lehigh has
the details.
Goldman's co-host, Tom Moroney,
actually leaked
the news (sub. req.) on May
30 in his farewell column for the MetroWest Daily
News.
Lehigh writes:
For someone who has been
talking to Goldman about campaigns and politics for two decades,
it's hard to imagine an election season without his strategic
perspective, his irrepressible energy, his imaginative spin - and,
yes, his deep-on-deadline calls that are nigh unto impossible to
end.
Well, yes. But I'm not sure what
Lehigh is talking about. I'm going to keep calling
Goldman.
As Lehigh also notes, this is a
huge comeback for Goldman, who spent many months recovering from a
life-threatening leg infection. Last fall I did an hour on Simply
Put from Bloomberg's Boston studio. Goldman had come in, against
doctor's orders, and was in obvious pain, although that didn't stop
him from joking around both during and after the show.
Making the full-time move into talk
radio is something Goldman has wanted for years. I'm glad it's
finally happened, and I only wish we could listen to him and Moroney
in Greater Boston without having to tune in to the Internet stream or
subscribe to satellite radio.
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$75,000 is almost as much money as the average Boston cop makes annually--among the highest such figures in the country, which also puts the picketing in perspective.
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