Here’s a nugget from Salem News editor Nelson Benton in the Dec. 1st paper about the transition:
“It should come as little surprise that the first two community forums being held by Deval Patrick’s transition team are in Boston and Amherst. The only North Shore representative on the 19-member main advisory group is North Shore Community College President Wayne Burton – and he lives in New Hampshire. So why would they come here first?
There are a sprinkling of area residents on the various transition working groups – Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll (Local Government), Salem State College President Nancy Harrington (Higher Education); Swampscott Selectman Charles Baker (Budget and Finance) and Helen Spaulding of Ipswich (Creative Economy) a longtime patron of the arts.
No disrespect to Spaulding, but it’s hard to believe that the Creative Economy group does not include either Patricia Zaido or Christine Sullivan. The two Salem women have been in the forefront of the creative economy movement nationally, and hosted the first statewide conference on the subject in their home city earlier this year.
Let’s hope this is not another Dukakis administration of which it was said that whenever there was talk of going to “the North Shore,” somehow the governor ended up in Lowell.”
I, too, hope we’ll see more of the transition groups and new Administration reaching out to or meeting on the North Shore…
Thanks, I was just grousing to myself that the closest the Human Services meeting gets to the north shore is Lawrence.
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Is Malden, Melrose, Revere, Everett, Lynn such an empty wasteland? Actually, we don’t even qualify as North Shore is my guess. Just something to skip over on your way out of Boston.
Boston Globe, December 6th:
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“The inauguration will take place Thursday, Jan. 4. On the following Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, Patrick would probably travel around the state, with stops tentatively set for Pittsfield, Springfield, Cape Cod, and Southeastern Massachusetts.”