Politics

Casinos and South Coast Rail – the two items politicians love to tease us with. New Bedford residents have voted several times to support a casino only to have their hopes and dreams squashed by developers, politicians or political appointees. Just a few years ago, voters in Massachusetts approved three …

California legislator and Majority Leader Ian Calderon has filed legislation that would jail waiters and other restaurant staff for up to six months for proving single-use plastic straws to consumers that don’t request them. The bill reads as follows: AB 1884, as introduced, Calderon. Food facilities: single-use plastic straws. Existing …

Below is a statement from Congressman Bill Keating, senior Member on the House Homeland Security Committee, in response to the Republicans’ vote tonight to release the Intelligence Committee memo related to the FBI’s surveillance of a Trump campaign aide. “The release of a committee staff-drafted memo containing classified information is …

Mayor Mitchell will hold neighborhood office hours for the month of January on Tuesday, January 30, 2018 from 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. at the Casa da Saudade Library, 58 Crapo Street in New Bedford. Mayor Mitchell sets aside time each month to hold office hours in city neighborhoods so …

Congressman Joe Kennedy III, the grandson of former United States Attorney General Robert F. “Bobby” Kennedy, announced on his Twitter page that he will be delivering the response to President Trump’s State of the Union speech next week. He will be giving the response from Diman Regional Vocational Technical High …

New Bedford City Councillor at-Large Brian Gomes filed the following motion to be presented at the New Bedford City Council session scheduled for 25 January, 2018: Councillor Gomes, requesting, that the Committee on Public Safety and Neighborhoods, meet with a Representative from the Mayor’s Office, Police Chief Cordeiro, the Community …

The City develops a five-year capital improvement program (CIP) to coordinate community planning, financial capacity and physical development requirements. A complete CIP facilitates coordination between capital needs and the operating budget, enhances the City’s credit rating, and provides a mechanism to more effectively incorporate capital decisions into ongoing fiscal planning. …

Below is a statement from Congressman Bill Keating on tonight’s vote to reopen the federal government. “I want to reinforce the bipartisan efforts of my colleagues in the Senate who fought hard for a chance to protect the 800,000 Dreamers who came here as children. While I share a degree …

By Bruce Ditata On the anniversary of his inauguration as POTUS, Donald J. Trump yearned for a Mar-a-Lago getaway, celebratory gala with his deep-pocketed cronies, the exhilaration of basking in praise he always yearns for. Instead, he found himself shuttered in the White House, unable to join the opulent festival …

– COUNCILLOR LINDA M. MORAD, CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT – COUNCILLOR JOSEPH P. LOPES, FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT – COUNCILLOR BRIAN K. GOMES, SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE CITY COUNCIL – APPOINTMENTS & BRIEFINGS: Councillors COELHO, Chair; MORAD, Vice-Chair; Abreu, Carney, Dunn, Giesta, Gomes, Lima, Markey and Rebeiro – CITY PROPERTY: Councillors …