Word: framingham
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...caucus of liberal Massachusetts Democrats endorsed State Rep. Paul Guzzi '65 of Newton for secretary of state and Edward F. Harrington of Needham for attorney general at a meeting in Framingham this weekend...
...DiCara's main opposition at Saturday's Framingham caucus will come from an anti-Park Plaza contingent. DiCara stirred up this opposition when he voted February 5 against the recision of a $6.8 million bond issue for the $266 million development, which would include construction of a high rise hotel, apartments and office spaces beginning at Park Square and going towards the Combat Zone...
Whether DiCara can actually duplicate Kennedy's career may depend on his support at the upcoming state caucus meeting in Framingham. The caucus, which supplants the convention system, lets a group of voters choose a nominee for the November elections. By mutual agreement, the losing candidates at the Caucus will back the party's choice...
Citizens for Participation in Political Action (CPPAX), spearhead of the anti-Park Plaza movement, claims that the Boston development will abuse the power of eminent domain and give private developers excess profits at the public expense. The CPPAX--expected to be the main opposition to DiCara in Framingham--outlined an attack against him in a January 15 letter that claimed that qualified legal authorities and a majority of the councilors have stated that the council can rescind the Park Plaza funding because no plan for the project has been approved and no commitments made...
...Department of Corrections is based on a patronage system. The women's prison at Framingham is a classic example of featherbedding. Framingham has a permanent staff of 143 employees with a combined salary of $1.4 million a year. The prison population last year was as low as to to 60 women. As a solution to the population crisis, the Department of Corrections made the prison coed (creating more scandals to be reported on by the Herald). In December, after all of the changes, there were still less than 100 prisoners...