Bulger & Springfield

Nothing troubles a neighbor more than seeing an old adjoining city in economic distress. Springfield bears the bane and casual shun of its 'town' neighbors and their taxbases, and is now in State Bankruptcy recovery/receivership. They must as a city deal with that restriction and all that its mayor can get from a Republican Governor and the Democratic controlled state legislature.

My suggestion? Lets encourage Charles Ryan to step aside as Mayor and endorse William Bulger as his preferred candidate to see what he can wheel and deal for the city in his classic state neo-Curleyesque style.

Tongue and cheek aside -though .. the city needs the reality of a tax base and relief from an urban core social services pile-up which it cannot afford to maintain alone. And Bulger? ... well I can remember in this state when desiring a newer competitive Springfield Civic Center, the city wisely learned that bigger was better for business ..would the state assist?

"Well" ... maybe but we wouldn't want anything to compete with the Mullins Center" (meaning the new field house and civic arena of commercially competitive size twenty-four- away at Amherst said William Bulger in a house whisper.
And so it went... Springfield was granted State assistance for a lesser medium sized 'white elephant' civic center .. newly uncompetitively reopening after size refurbishment - a cost it still bears.

Springfield's best latest historic recovery --is "The Republican" as its newspaper was renamed a couple of years ago in recollecting publisher Samuel Bowles' Abe Lincoln favoring pro-abolitionist paper.