Click on link below to hear article:

Living Curtatone In Somerville, The Truth Revealed of Alleged Crimes Carried Out and Covered Up

Our sincere condolences thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of William (Bill) Linardy on his passing.

William (Bill) Linardy was a wonderful person who will be sadly missed here in Somerville. Continue reading Somerville Remembering William (Bill) Linardy →

At 159 a.m. on Wednesday morning, December 30th, the Somerville Fire Department responded to a house fire at 20 Kensington Avenue. Upon arrival, firefighters were confronted with heavy fire conditions in the basement spreading rapidly up the rear stairway. Continue reading Kensington Avenue House Fire Somerville →

Click on link below to read December 29th, 2020 The Somerville/Medford News Weekly Print Edition Online
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1abKF_dnnNVXLBILsF2eq3BkdD-mQDWS-/view

Happy Birthday to Tom Sacco, Christine Connell, Kreysten Shepphard, Michelle Bernard, Shayla Jamieson, Cathy Silvio, CJ Killeen, Lisa Forlizzi, Maria Santos, Emily Rose Hickey, Doris O’Meara, Mary E. Pothier, Janice Griffin, Continue reading The Somerville/Medford News Weekly Favorite Birthday Photos of the Week! →

The Beatles, Steve Keith, Kat Quinn, Mary Gatchell, Barry Wilson, Cindy Latin

BEATLES
54 hours of film footage from the Let It Be movie now available on the underground railroad and nowhere else. Peter Jackson, whose film about World War 1 was amazing, especially for the post script on how Jackson resurrected so much damaged film. Here Paul McCartney tells Howard Stern on the air that: “It is great,” a video floating out there on YouTube has a tremendous take on the song “Get Back.” Continue reading HOTLINE TO THE UNDERGROUND BY JOE VIGLIONE →

By William Tauro

I’m guessing Mayor Joe is betting that Governor Baker will take into consideration to appoint Joe to a judgeship to make him go away. Continue reading Letter from the Editor: A Curtatone Judgeship, Not →

My outline for a greater Somerville is to begin with restoring the dignity and integrity of the mayor’s office as well as to restore the faith of the people and to let them know that I will always hear them and that I’m here to work for them.

As I have made public in a previous announcement, I first plan on entertaining an open door policy. My belief is that right now, it is vital for communication between city Hall and the citizens of our city to be as transparent as possible. There are far too many problems that have gone unattended for many years. My team and I will be active on the ground prior to starting from day one!  Continue reading My Outline for a Greater Somerville by William Tauro →

The Somerville Police Department is seeking any information about a suspect in an unarmed bank robbery that took place on Monday, December 28, at around 10:45 a.m., at the East Cambridge Savings Bank at 285 Highland Ave. Continue reading Somerville Police Ask for Public’s Help to Identify Suspect in Unarmed Bank Robbery →

By Bob Katzen

Gov. Baker vetoed millions of dollars in funding in the $46.2 billion fiscal 2021 state budget. This is in sharp contrast to last year when, in an unusual the governor signed the fiscal 2020 state budget into law without vetoing any of the $43.3 billion in spending approved by the House and Senate. Continue reading VETOES GALORE →

By Bob Katzen

The House 31-126, Senate 4-35, rejected Gov. Baker’s amendment to a bill requiring the state to create a searchable website that will show how the state spends the federal funds it receives to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Baker’s amendment made several changes including deleting a section that requires the site to be updated on a weekly basis and replacing it with a requirement it be updated on a “regular” basis. Continue reading COVID SPENDING WEBSITE →

By Bob Katzen

The House 157-0, Senate 40-0, approved and sent to Gov. Baker a conference committee report of a bill that sponsors say will increase access to health care, protect patients and enhance quality care. The bill requires behavioral health treatment delivered via telehealth to be permanently reimbursed by insurers at the same rate as in-person services. Continue reading HEALTH CARE AND TELEHEALTH →

By Bob Katzen

The Senate on a voice vote without a roll call vote, approved the bill that would allow abortions after 24 weeks in the case of lethal fetal anomalies and lower the age from 18 to 16 at which a minor can choose to have an abortion without parental or judicial consent. Continue reading BAKER VETOES BILL TO INCREASE ABORTION ACCESS →

By Bob Katzen

The House 107-50, Senate 31-9, approved and sent to Governor Charlie Baker a new version of a bill making major changes in the state’s policing system. The House and Senate adopted some of Governor Baker’s amendments including scaling back a moratorium on the use of facial recognition software by law enforcement and limiting the influence of a civilian-led commission over police training.

Continue reading POLICE CHANGES →

By Bob Katzen

The House 151-6, overrode Governor Baker’s veto of the entire $500,000 for a neighborhood-based gun and violent crime prevention pilot program for targeted work with out-of-school youth and young adults aged 17 to 24. Continue reading $500,000 FOR GUN AND VIOLENT CRIME PREVENTION →

By Bob Katzen

The House and Senate approved and sent to Gov. Baker a bill that would ban 11 toxic flame retardants from children’s products, bedding, carpeting and residential upholstered furniture sold or manufactured in Massachusetts, except for inventory already manufactured prior to December 1, 2021. Another provision requires the Department of Environmental Protection to review, at least every three years, chemical flame retardants used in these type of products and include them on the list of prohibited chemical flame retardants that are documented to pose a health risk. Violators would be fined up to $5,000 for a first offense, $25,000 for a second offense and up to $50,000 for a third and subsequent offense. Continue reading BAN TOXIC FLAME RETARDANTS →

By Bob Katzen

Governor Baker announced a $668 million program to provide financial assistance to Massachusetts small businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The program is counting on federal funds the state will receive from the federal COVID-19 relief bill recently passed by Congress. But the Baker administration says it will soon start releasing millions in new funding to restaurants, retailers and other small businesses across the state regardless of the fate of the federal funding. Continue reading BAKER UNVEILS $668 MILLION SMALL BUSINESS RELIEF PACKAGE →

By Bob Katzen

Effective January 1, the state’s minimum wage rises from $12.75 per hour to $13.50 per hour and the sub-minimum wage for tipped workers will rise from $4.95 per hour to $5.55 per hour. This hike is the third of five annual increases mandated by a law passed in 2018 that will eventually bring the minimum wage to $15 per hour in 2023. Continue reading MINIMUM WAGE HIKE AND PAID FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE PROGRAM EFFECTIVE JANUARY →

Dear Billy T and Somerville/Medford News Weekly Speakup Line,

Please publish this letter from Somerville Inspectional Services:

Mr. Antanavica (cc City Council, Mayor, Attorneys, Journalists)

I don’t deserve this email. No human does.

Your remarkable message below states that you will not vacate the first 12 days of Certificate of Occupancy Violations even after the Building Code Appeals Board determined I did not need a CO.
That means you are no longer enforcing the building code. You are actually violating it. Continue reading Somerville Speakup Line:Somerville Doctor Calling on Mayor and City Council to Remove Inspectional Services Director Mr. Antanavica from His Position Immediately →

By Arthur Moore  

Does anyone have a clue? If you call 311 they say street cleaning is in effect. Continue reading Somerville Street Sweeping. Anyone Home? →

It’s with heavy hearts that we announce today is our last RoseBrunch for a while. We’re making the very difficult & heartbreaking decision to close our diner doors & turn off our neon for the winter. Continue reading Rosebud American Kitchen & Bar Closes →

This very friendly boy was found tonight(12/27/20) on Broadway/Main St on the Medford line. Continue reading Somerville Animal Control News Updates:FOUND DOG!! PLEASE SHARE! →

By William Tauro

A very well-known Somerville Youth Hockey coach that everybody has loved and adored for many seasons was let go for political retaliation just recently after he refused to meet Mayor Joe’s demands to make his son captain of the hockey team. Continue reading Letter from the Editor:Mayor Joe Says It’s My Ice and You Can’t Play With It As He Fires Somerville Youth Hockey Coach →

Sponsored by STEALING SOMERVILLE Death of an Urban City To order STEALING SOMERVILLE go to: www.Amazon.com

GOOD MORNING – TODAY IS SATURDAY, December 26, the 361st day of 2020 with 05 to follow. Sunrise in the Boston area is @ 7:12 and sunset is @ 4:16. The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mars, Neptune and Uranus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus.

ON THIS DAY IN: 1620 – The Pilgrim Fathers landed at New Plymouth, MA, to found Plymouth Colony, with John Carver as Governor. Continue reading GOOD MORNING – TODAY IS by John Dwyer →

By Arthur Moore

I suspect outside of people seeing them on detail they really do not know what they do in a day. I sort of don’t either. But what I can say is how much they can do for us that we are not aware of. Continue reading So, You Want to Defund the Police? →