“What you get to say and what you get to help us with is a tremendous amount of help to make this work and work well for you and for us,” replied General Scott Rice, Healey administration emergency assistance director in response to a concerned resident over the decision to house migrants in Fort Point.  This will go down in local history as one of the all-time most illogical, even Kafkaesque statements ever uttered by a state official.  No wonder residents were furious that the administration made this decision without soliciting any input from those most impacted by this decision.

Sean F. Flaherty

Boston

I do not understand why the residents at Fort Point are so upset (“This is ridiculous,” 2/29/24). My first question is how many of those residents voted for Maura Healey? To those residents I say you got what you deserve.

It is very obvious that democracy in this state (and the country for that matter) is gone, Michele Wu and Maura Healey will do whatever they want, because unfortunately in the new world, they can do whatever they want.

They know all the judges they appointed will agree with them or face backlash, just ask the town of Milton!

In this new world democracy is gone and has been replaced by dictators and that seems to be fine with the Massachusetts voters.

Michael Westen

Malden

I take issue with Joe Battenfeld’s unfair characterization of payments by the state auditor to out-of-state signature gathering firms (‘Auditor ballot initiative used signature companies:’ 2/29/24). Using out-of-state firms is “…hardly a sign of overwhelming support from Massachusetts voters” according to Battenfeld. You’re missing the point, Joe. To succeed in getting that question on the ballot, those firms have to acquire signatures of more than 74,000 registered Commonwealth voters. Regardless of who gathers the signatures they have to be certified (as registered voters) at the city and town level prior to submission to the Secretary of the Commonwealth in order to get the question on the ballot.

If the effort succeeds I would say there are more than 74,000 voters in the Commonwealth fed up with having no insight into the opaque operations of our state legislature.

Count me as one voter who will vote to open up the legislature’s books if given the opportunity.

Paul Stewart

Quincy

President Biden tells you what a great memory he has. During his inauguration speech he was telling you he was going to president for all Americans, even those who did not vote for him. These days he is trashing anyone who does not agree with his agenda… seems he forgot about what he said. He is knocking people who did not support the “border bill” that would let almost 2 million illegal immigrants in in a year.. that’s a “Closed Border”?

Paul Quaglia

Billerica