In answer to your question of whether you should run for mayor, Douglas Mackinnon, (“What’s slowly killing Boston?”), the answer is a resounding yes. Given your background, life experiences and love for the city of Boston, you are uniquely qualified to be mayor. Your pragmatic understanding of politics will allow you not to be swayed by ideology but by common sense. Something severely lacking in politics today. Especially in our state.
I would encourage anyone who has not yet read your essay in the Herald on March 17 to do so. You convinced me when you said this, “I quickly came to despise both political parties as I realized that most members of those parties put their reelection first; the welfare of their party next; and the needs of their actual constituents dead last.” It’s a truth I came to know after having been a passionate Democrat, then a passionate Republican, then disillusioned with both over my lifetime. Your candidacy would offer the people of Boston a choice to vote for one of their own rather than the political class so blinded by ideology they can no longer see the people they rule over.
George F. Czyzewski
Palmer
Anyone else remember when it was so virtuous to purchase and drive a Tesla?
The phony “save the planet” leftists are now ditching them to further prove the cult of insanity that has destroyed the Democratic party from within.
You would think something like the bringing home of our heroic astronauts would galvanize the country in some small way, but even that turned partisan because former liberal hero turned villain Elon Musk was involved with the process.
Name one state or city that is run by a Democrat that is doing well in regards to finances, education, safety and any other important metric that would have good, hardworking folks and businesses flock to.
You can’t, because there are none and they are losing population and clout in record numbers because people are starting to smarten up to their phony lies and games.
Thomas C Wahlberg
Dedham
The Small Business Association is cutting its workforce by 43% or about 2,700 jobs. This is important for two reasons. Kelly Loeffler, the new head of the SBA, said she will eliminate non-mission positions and consolidate functions to revert staffing levels back to the previous Trump administration. In other words, she will cut flagrant waste at the SBA while maintaining a commitment to its mission.
Secondly, this cut in staffing shines a spotlight on Biden’s economy of smoke and mirrors. Biden boasted growth in the number of jobs created during his tenure. Unfortunately, adding government jobs was not growing our economy. These jobs were not private sector jobs that actually boosted the economy. These Biden government jobs drained the economy.
This is a good example of why we need DOGE.
Donald Houghton
Quincy
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