New Hampshire: Cambridge

February 27, 2009 - 10:37 am

Rumors of my demise

Are greatly exaggerated, and all that.

So I so didn't intend to skip blogging this week... it just happened... hopefully I'll be back in the saddle again come Sunday afternoon or Tuesday morning, but for now, it's off to Cambridge for a computer-less weekend praying with monks! Yay! :)

February 11, 2009 - 06:04 pm
NEWS FEED: Blue Hampshire

Pothole Frank and the Politics of Failure

In the wake of the passage of the Stimulus Bill, I thought it fitting to spend a few minutes considering how I and my fellow residents of Manchester - including Mayor Frank Guinta - would fare. My research didn't give me a very clear idea of what the folks in New Hampshire's largest city can expect from the $790 billion dollar plan, but it did illuminate something else for me: Pothole Frank is a crappy mayor.

Thru what serendipity did I glean this? I began at the website of the US Conference of Mayors (www.usmayors.org). News reports about the fiscal stimulus plan had mentioned that the mayors had put together a wish list of local projects that they hoped could be funded by the stimulus package.