June 30, 2025 • 40 mins
The primarily Italian American neighborhood of Nonantum in Newton is outraged over a 90-year-old road marker that was painted over. For decades, the center line down Adams Street has been red, white, and green, the colors of the Italian flag. Last week, the city of Newton had the colors painted over with a yellow line, citing safety reasons. A majority of Nonantum residents prided themselves on the Italian flag road marker and are upset over this change just three weeks before the St. Mary of Carmen Society Italian Festival and parade. Did the neighborhood deserve to be included in discussions over a change in the road marker?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm WBS Costin's new video.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Dan, I remember Jim Tabor. I think it was a
third Basement if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Yeah, I just pulled up his Wikipedia page.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Nickname was raw Hyde, Third Basement, right, third Baseman for
the Socks and for the Phillies for a little bit.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah. No, I don't remember him, actually, but I know
of his reputation. Let me put it like that. I'm old,
but I'm not that old. Dan. Great to see you,
happy fourth. If they were going to get a chance
to talk.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Good to talk to you too, Dan, Sandy.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah, the Red Sox finally got some runs for Crochet
to Night. He didn't need them, but he got they.
You got a lot of them, that's for sure. So Hey,
that's take what he gets. Thirteen runs like that. Thanks
very much. We'll talk so Dan, all right, we are
back and we are sticking with our topic. We're talking
about a controversy in the Newton section then No Nantum
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section of Newton in which for many, many years, for
well for ninety years, there had been a white line
in the middle of Adams Street for about a half
a mile the heart of No Nantum and a red
and green line making the white line representative of the
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Italian flag was honored and was there, and it was
removed last Thursday morning. We talked last hour with Arianna Proye,
who was a young woman who was very much involved
in this festival that is coming up. We talked with
the Newton mayor, ruth An Fuller, and we talked with
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city council John Oliver, one of these city councilors who
represents most of not all, of no Nantum. He seems
perplexed by it. You heard the mayor, and you heard
what John had to say, and you hear what Arianna
had to say, and now it's an opportunity for you
to say what you want to say. We will take
as many phone call I think we'll go until eleven o'clock.
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So if you want to get in, the numbers are
six one, seven, two, four, ten thirty or six one, seven,
nine three thirty. This obviously has struck a very strong
chord within Newton. Let me go next to Anthony and Newton.
Anthony has been holding on for quite a while. Anthony,
appreciate your patience.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Go right ahead, Hi, Dan, My name is Anthony Puller.
Greeny Junior.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Okay, your family has been mentioned already, Go right ahead, Anthony.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Yeah, they call me Fatty and after my dad. I
don't know if you know my dad, Fat Puller Greenie Senior.
He was a community activist down here. But yeah, of
course we're disappointed on this. It's it's listen, she's not
running anymore. She has no no, uh you know, nothing
in the game anymore, so she could do what she wanted.
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I know her very well. She's called me when I've
gotten sick and stuff like that. We get along with.
But after seven years, she she's never done anything before.
And I think she's listening to to a certain executive
who she has the transportation engineer and put it in
her brain. But why now, that's what we want to know.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I think that's the question you heard. Were her answers satisfactory?
Do you? Or no? Obviously not.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Oh I don't to a lot of but I'm getting
calls from all over the country, all over the country
about this. Listen, you can't go down Adam Street. Let
me just explain. You can't go down Adam Street. Bus
is included without crossing the double yellow line. So I
did a video the other day, showing that. My question
was to her in the video, Well, then when you
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go down Ata Street, are you going to give yourself
a ticket going over the double yellow line. It's just
impossible to do, you know, it's not safety. Plus, you
put a thermal thing down, knowing full well that the
thermal will not take any paint over what we do,
So it's going to be really really high for us.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Well she did, she did, Anthony, Anthony, let me you
know the concession that she seemed to me to make,
and again I'm not the one to judge it. You are.
She said that the residents would be able to repaint.
She didn't say, you know, a week from now, two weeks,
she said, seemingly as soon as they want. I am
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a green, white and red stripe. Contiguous, I emphasized contiguous.
Someone to me had said today that that, uh, that
the offer had been made off to the side. There's
a difference between off to the side and contiguous. Was
that at all helpful or no?
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Wow, it's remained to be seen. You know what the
agreement comes. So you know, we've got a couple of
weeks to go.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Well, you have her, I could just tell you this uh,
in all honesty, Anthony, I emphasized to her, and I
think she understood exactly, and you have it on tape
when I said contiguous meaning next too contiguous, I mean
doesn't mean two feet away, five feet away. The street's
only thirty two feet wide, and with the cars on
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each side, that can take up to ten feet, so
there's really only twelve feet between between cars on both
sides of the street. And I wanted I emphasized the
word contiguous, and she seemed to accept that.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
I understand that. You know that. One of the beats
we have is that you know it's so why now
again that I'm going to get to you know, she
would you can't go down there without doing so that
safety thing. I don't wish she got that. But why now?
After seven years we had agreements dan with Maya Cohen,
Jeddi Warren. We had also had a permit to do it,
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and they never had a problem with it. We've been
doing it for years since I was the kids, since
the sixties that I remember, you know what I mean?
But why now? You know? I think it was just
because she could.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
And I asked, I asked her that question, and when
I ask someone a question, they have a chance to
answer it. I'm not going to keep repeating the same question,
to be honest with you, not my role.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
No, I get that. I get that, Anthony.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I appreciate your passion, and I hope you're able to
to come to a settlement which is at least at
a minimum satisfactory, may be very satisfactory to your organization.
That's why I'm taking their pose on.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
I really do. I hope so myself. I think it's
just unfortunate that, you know, like we said, we honor
her all the time. You know, she's been down here
all the time. Why she did this is it's it's unfathomable,
it really is. I don't understand it.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
All right, Well, let's hopefully we've shed a little light
on it tonight, Anthony. I appreciate your call.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Thank you, Thank you, Jain, You're very welcome.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
We're going to take a quick break. The only line
that's opened to six one seven, nine thirty if you're
trying to get through. The lines have been very full
right now, six one seven nine three one ten. He
will work coming back on night.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Side night Side Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Okay, we're catching up here. Let me go to l
who's a mayor who's running for mayor of Newton.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
L Chilly h Well, Dan yeap Ol Chick and Elli.
I'm running for mayor of the City of Newton, and
I think that this is bigger than the lines. They've
been trying to take the neighborhood out of our neighborhood
for a while now. The big push came with the
m bt A zoning. Yes, we had a thing that
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they tried to pass, the v c o D the
Village Center over development Plan, where they instead of just
where the mbt A wanted, they wanted to over develop
the entire city and we fought them and we won.
They wanted to bring six story buildings up and down
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Watertown Street, and that's not what our neighborhood is. There
are areas that six story buildings are great, but we
live in a neighborhood. They didn't like that. One of
our city councilors at a meeting said to our face,
if you do not like this, vote me out, and
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we did it.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Race.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
We voted her out. The mayor went after she was
voted out and put her on the zoning Board of appeals.
So now she's an unelected person who now has more
power than when she was on the city council.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
That's that's a nasty move. That's a nasty moved. Yeah,
is that is that a Is that a paid position?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
I believe it's a volunteer position when I was on the.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
But that probably helps you. But that even though it's
a volunteer position, it might help someone with their pension.
Might you should look into that as a candidate for
because I believe, you know, I don't know anything about it,
but just because if it's a it can it can
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help people in terms of service. So how many people
are running for mayor and Newton now at this point?
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Right now it looks like two of us myself and
Marc Laredo, And he's the president of the city council.
And you know, I feel that city council is part
of the problem. All of these developments have to go
through there. One street parallel to Adams Street is Craft Street,
also one of the top five traffic accidents in Newton,
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and they just approved to put close to five hundred
units with less than five hundred units of parking with
one entrance and exit onto Craft Street. So we're going
to have thousands of more vehicle trips in this area. Yea,
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and they they it's it's absurd. I was at a
planning board meeting. They recently were trying to put a
four story building in in the village center, and we
wanted it to stay with the three and one of
the people on the planning board said, oh, special permits.
That's a great way to get around this so we
can develop that area.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Okay, well again we're getting off a little bit. I
don't want to get into the okay Meyrrill campaign here
because I really am interested in trying to talk as
much as I can tonight about what has happened. And
obviously I know where you feel on this, and I'm
sure that people.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
I think, I think this is the wrong time. You know.
She cited that there was this was a federal regulation. Well,
Columbus stay is a federal holiday. They took that away.
We're a sanctuary city. Well, immigration laws of federal laws.
Why aren't we cooperating with federal immigration laws?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Okay, again, out here, you've taken me away from the conversation.
He would say, I got to get back to I appreciate.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Your calling right well, hey, and thank you Dan, Thank.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
You much appreciate the call. Let's keep rolling here, going
to go to trying to get people in based upon
the amount of time they have waited. Sendy in Newton,
sendy your next go right.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
Ahead, Hi, Ike, thank you for having me on. My
family is from Santinado. I've lived in Newton my whole
life and third generation out of Santon out and I'd
like to say the timing was really horrible and if
the mayor a win win I would think would be
if the mayor would offer to put those lines back
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instead of expecting that these volunteers that work so hard
at this and do an incredible job to expect them
to go back and repaint what they kind of desecrated
right before the fest, you know, right before the festa.
I think that she should have offered to paint them back,
and that would have been a win win. Listen, I've
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done this. I'm sorry, apologize, but take care of what
you've done well, I.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Think again, she implied that there were going to be
some follow on meetings, and I'm hoping I guarantee you
that I tend to have a reputation of a reporter.
When I was a reporter and I'm now a talk
show host, which is different. I like to stay on
top of these stories. Okay, so I invite anyone to
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keep me posted. If this story goes south, if there
isn't a satisfactory resolution, however you want to describe that,
I'm more than willing to consider reasonable opportunities to come back.
I wouldn't have committed to doing this tonight if I
didn't think it's an important story. I think what this
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shows is that a community can fight city hall, and
I think that's important. I really do. That's what journalists
are supposed to do, is help you people. From what
I understand, this community in No Nantum is virtually unanimous
on this. I don't think this is a close call.
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I'm sure that the mayor, probably who doesn't live in
No Nantum doesn't probably have a real sense as much
of the community as the people who live there. That's
an obvious statement. Hopefully she will have heard from some
of you tonight. I'm sure she heard from some of
you during the day to day, and let's see, let's
give her. You got to give people a chance. And
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if she doesn't, you know, rise to the occasion, then
then there's nothing that will prevent me from coming back
and doing this story again.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
Thank you so much, Thank you, Sandy.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
My pleasure. Thank you for calling the show. Please listen
to Nightside. And there are a lot of communities around
Massachusetts right now that are hurting. And if there's anything
that I can do for any community in Massachusets, you're
in my audience. You're in my listening audience. I'm here
to to hear those stories and to broadcast those stories. No,
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Nantum is not alone. Newton is not alone. There's a
lot of communities and the state has problems as well.
So use me as a resource.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
Okay, thank you so much, thank.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
You, good thank you, good night, good night. Let me
keep rolling here. We are catching up. Janet is in Newton. Janet,
you were next on Nightside. Thanks for checking in. How
are you tonight?
Speaker 5 (14:31):
All right?
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Just want to speak of phone. Hi Dan Jannett.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
How you doing, Janet?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Where have you been for the last five years?
Speaker 8 (14:39):
In the last five years, Well, we'll have another conversation
about that, not now, but this I've been paying attention
what's going on in Newton? And I have to tell
you that this is like what I call another slap
in the face to no nantum from this mayor.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
And I don't understand she It's like she has got
a she's a vengeance, she's got a thing against this neighborhood.
It's really kind of creepy.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Well, I say, Janet, let me just say this. I
know where you're coming from, okay. Uh. And I have
to tell you, did you listen to the mayor tonight?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
I did listen to her, and I was really shocked
that she was quoting stuff without any data because the
crash data reports that she referenced are not they're not real.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I mean, let me, let me, let me just say this, okay,
and please understand what I'm saying. What I'm trying to say.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Yeah, yeah, most mayors and most elected officials, when faced
with a uh, confrontation or a dust up, whatever you
want to call it, Okay, they have exactly So.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
The one thing that I always give an elected official
some credit for is coming on and answering questions.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
And they will even if you don't tell them, even
if they don't answer truthfully. What the heck well to
tell the truth, Jenny, he's not running for reelection, Janet,
you know that she's not running for reelections.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I know I follow Newton. I follow Newton pretty closely, Jenny.
The point I'm trying to make is, oftentimes, uh, this
is not a court of law where we have standards
of evidence. And on my radio show, if I'm going
to ask a question and uh, the mayor refers to
say a report of some sort, uh, I don't have
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the ability to say, please would like to have that
submitted in evidence.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
And I understand you that.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I want to assume that people one tell the truth,
and two if it is an opinion. Sometimes people there's
there are differences opinion, and your truth might be not
my truth. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Let me make a point I want to make Dad Newton.
She's claiming that we have to abide by these federal regulations,
federal law. And I see these people marching on Saturdays
in Newton Center, no kings there. I hate Trump so much.
How about why don't we get out and protests in
donandum no queens, because let me tell you something, all.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
You have to do organize that lause, Janet.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
There are so many federal laws that Newton doesn't follow.
I mean, I mean, we have let people there, they're illegals,
go walk out of the back of courtrooms. Judge Shelley uh, and.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
She's facing some very serious potential consequences to that. You know, Janet,
if you want to go have a no Queen's protest,
do it. Do it. I'm not protesting, right, So when
you want to you want to sit there, you want
to sit there in the chief seats. And by one
call in five years to this radio station, somehow get
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a thousand people in the middle of Newton Center. Dream on, Janet,
dream on.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
I didn't. I did not say that.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
You're sure you imply people.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Knew Jane going no Kings. They're all opposite about Kings,
but they're happy with the queen.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
You know, she wants to be she is the queen.
But I wanted to point out that this has been
one of many of frontages that has come from this administration.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Okay, we're just talking about this one tonight, Janet. You
in the last five years, you should have been calling
me about other affront that she is. But I got
to run because I got the news coming up. Appreciate
your calling tonight, be well. Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten,
thirty one line is open back on Night's Side. Look,
my job here is to try to conduct a program
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that is fair. I can take positions by virtue of
the stories I cover. In effect, if I didn't think
this was an important story, I wouldn't cover it. But Janet,
I don't think. She's called my show for five years
and now tonight she's gonna talk about no Kings demonstrations.
She's a big trumper. That's fine, be a trumper, but
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you know it's talk is cheap. These people need some help.
That's what we're trying to do. We'll be back on
Nightside right after the news at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
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Speaker 2 (19:15):
Back we go, going to go to Susan and in Newton,
Susan you were next to a Nightside welcome.
Speaker 9 (19:21):
Oh hi, thanks stance this opportunity. Well, first of all,
I want to say, an apology goes a long way,
and with yet to hear the mayor apologize for her behavior.
And not only was it removing the stripe, but we
also had a public health hazard with all the smoke
and the dust and the noise that everyone was exposed to.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Yeah, it looked like I don't understand why you do
why you're doing this at night, And she didn't give
me an adequate answer on that.
Speaker 9 (19:52):
She talked to me, well, she was hiding behind it.
They've done it before during the day. She wanted to
do it so that the neighborhood wouldn't know, and she
got away with them.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
I mean, I I could be.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Wrong here, but I would assume that it's more expensive
at night for any company to do business like this.
I just think that Again, it seems to me, I
do not believe there was a police detail.
Speaker 9 (20:20):
It wasn't assigned, and the police weren't even aware of it.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
If there had been an accident, I mean, someone could have.
I sort of mentioned it to her that someone could
have been driving home after having had a couple of
glasses of wine or something, and then now you got
to now you have an accident on Adams Street.
Speaker 9 (20:39):
Yeah. But the other thing that Dan is the public
health has that's smoke in that dust that the residents
on that street were exposed to is inexcusable. It was
it was a hot night, people had maybe had windows open,
So that alone is a huge issue that never got
a dressed. Never mind the noise factor. You can't even
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have a leaf blower in Newton. But now you have
you heard.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I have a friend of mine that runs a landscape
company and he tells me that they're very strict with that. Horrible,
they'll send the leaf blower police out to tell that
they shut off.
Speaker 10 (21:20):
That's true, I think.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
By the way, Also, by the way, is not Newton
supposed to be a welcoming city?
Speaker 9 (21:28):
Well it's well nonantom is.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Yeah, No, I don't know.
Speaker 11 (21:34):
I think it's changed, unfortunately range.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
The timing of this is bad. And again I ask, horrible.
Speaker 9 (21:41):
That and how comes she didn't apologize? She is yet
to apologize to anybody. And it's also I think it's
sort of her patent too, she will not apologize for
any her behavior. I mean, we've seen this in the past,
so it's nothing new. But I do say, if she
really really only wants to repair the damage to this neighborhood,
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and it needs to be done before the feast, they
need to remove those yellow stripes and replace with the
Italian stripe, and that white stripe can still serve as
the traffic division stripe in the middle of the street.
It has for years and years and years. So I
think if she really does care for that little half
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mile strip, she needs to compromise and just except she
made a huge mistake on this one and let it
go so that this community can repair and we can
move on. And in six months she'll be gone. But
this can go on her future if she does for real. Wise,
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I don't know what she's playing on doing, but this
doesn't help, all right.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
I don't think.
Speaker 9 (22:50):
Yeah, time, but she apologize.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
You got a lot in and I all right, thank you.
Going to go to Elaine next. Elaine were next on nightside.
Speaker 11 (23:01):
Welcome, Hi, Dan, thank you very much for having me on.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Well, thank you for calling in.
Speaker 11 (23:08):
We met many years ago. You probably don't remember me.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
But at any rate, are you a lawyer?
Speaker 12 (23:15):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Okay, there was there was an Elane, a lawyer who
I thought lived in Newton, that that I had I
had spoken with on some issues. But go ahead. I
don't know what were the circumstances of our meeting. I
hope they were pleasant.
Speaker 11 (23:28):
Well, the first one wasn't. All the follow ups were.
I'll leave it at that, Dan, you think.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
About well you was was it a legal.
Speaker 11 (23:38):
Matter or no, No, we first met on a trash issue.
Speaker 13 (23:43):
Okay, fair enough, Okay, fair enough, okay, fine, any at
any rate, I think I put it, I think I
put I put it one and one together his, so
go ahead of lane.
Speaker 11 (23:55):
Okay, Yeah, you know, Dan, I'm not one to I
worked for the city for some over forty years. Yes, yes,
and prior to that I served on the Board on
Public Facilities, which oversaw DPW, and then I came back
to the city after I got my master's and worked
in DPW for twenty five years. Yes, and I was
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responsible for a lot of contracts and a lot of bids,
and as far as the line painting goes, it would
seem to me it depended on how the bid was
written or if it was a contract. And generally when
you write bids or contracts like that, you stay very specific.
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So when you want them to do things and to
turn them on and say a company called and said
they can do it this time, it doesn't make sense
to me. Okay, And that.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Was what they just those who didn't hear my interview
with the mayor, that is what the mayor said. So
you're being critical, which is fine.
Speaker 11 (24:57):
Well, the question I have is you know, this is
a tip of the iceberg, and I know a lot
of people very upset with this. I've lived in this
area for seventy two years. My grandfather was one of
the founders of the society. My father came here at
eight years old to escape Mussolini and everybody. So we
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go back a long way. But I think this is
a tip of the iceberg. And what we're seeing is
a lot of issues with the administration. And I'm not
going into it, but you alluded to certain things about
people in her position having to have their facts together,
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and the problem is she has people around her who
don't give her the facts as the facts should be.
And I think that you know, I worked for Ted Mann,
and I worked for David Cohen and Sethie Warren, and
you better have had young information together when you went
to a meeting or you had to give me information
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to them because you were held accountable. And one of
the problems is there is no accountability left in this city.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
And I think knowing knowing your knowing your background, you
now have familiarized me. You were a good city employee.
You were responsive to the concerns that I was experiencing. Uh,
and so I take your credibility and the experience that
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I had with you. I weigh your remarks quite heavily.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
To be honest with you, well, thank you.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
You struck me at that time as an employee who
wanted to do the best for the citizens and the
taxpayers of Newton.
Speaker 11 (26:40):
And I I tried anyway, Thank you try.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
You tried a lot, and I and I missed talking
with you. To be honest with you. If you I
met you, well you can find me.
Speaker 11 (26:54):
But but two things out of the conversation that really
really bothered me. The fact that she downplayed a lot
of the smoke and the dust issues were really bothersome.
It's true because people could have COPDP, people could have
lung cancer, people could have asthma.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Well, people could just be sitting there on a very
hot night with their windows open, trying to go to sleep,
and for that to be happening at ten thirty at night,
particularly if you're somebody who has to get up at
five in the morning to go to work and mindustanding.
Is a lot of folks in the Donentum area. Are
you know people who who work for a living? They
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work and work hard. If you know what I'm saying, and.
Speaker 11 (27:38):
Lou call it call the people, which.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Are great people. And for that to occur at ten
thirty at night, there's something that still doesn't hang right.
And I didn't want to accuse her, but that's almost
like some you know, when when there were plenty of
someone once said nothing good happens after midnight. Well, I
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think when when when city vehicles are involved, probably nothing
good happens after ten o'clock as well.
Speaker 11 (28:10):
If you get my drift, I think you're right, I mean,
and none of this. It stinks, Dan, it really smells
not right.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Thank you for your time. It's great to reacquaint.
Speaker 11 (28:25):
Can I just make one other comment?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Got to be quick for me because I'm up on
my brake.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
Go ahead, Elane, real quick.
Speaker 11 (28:31):
When she made a comment, you you questioned her figures,
and she made a comment and said, well, I'm not
good at numbers.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
You have a six.
Speaker 11 (28:43):
Hundred million dollar budget and you're not good at numbers.
It's very, very disturbing, and so what happened down on
Antem is a surprising.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
Dan.
Speaker 11 (28:53):
All right, have a night's night. I'll try to catch
up with you.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
I hope you will. Elaine. You know I'm around town.
When you see me, say hello, come.
Speaker 11 (29:01):
On, are you still Are you still living and living?
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Yep, yep, still been here now nearly twenty years.
Speaker 11 (29:10):
And who knows, maybe I'll knock on your door soon.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
That's okay too, thanks very much, I'll talk to you soon.
All right, good night, all right. I got to take
a break. I only got one line, six one seven,
nine thirty. I am going to wrap this at eleven
unless the phone just go nuts. But I have four
lines right now. I'm going to get Brian, Phil, Jimmy
and Terry in, and I do have room for one
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more six one seven, nine thirty, coming right back on
night Side. I do intend to switch topics at eleven.
I want to thank everyone who is called tonight. This
is obviously a very I believe that the government that
affects our lives most is not the White House. It's
not Congress, it's not the State House. It's our local communities.
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And this is exhibit A. We'll be back on Nightside
after this.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
It's nice with Boston.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
We'll get everybody in, starting with Terry Newton. Terry, you
were next on Nightside.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
Welcome, thank you.
Speaker 14 (30:13):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
I can hear you find Terry, go right ahead. I
still can hear you, Terry, go right ahead.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
You can hear me.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Okay, Rob, why don't you work with Terry here and
explain to her. She's got to probably adjust something on
her situation. Next up is Brian and Brian, I'm I
do hear you? Brian? Go right ahead?
Speaker 12 (30:35):
Yes, good evening, Dan, How are you great?
Speaker 2 (30:38):
What's on your mind? Brian?
Speaker 12 (30:39):
I have a I'm going to give her the benefit
of the doubt and say I never heard anyone spew
so much misinformation. Well we'll leave it at that.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
I that kind way of saying it. Go right ahead.
Speaker 12 (30:54):
I was born and raised a Newton sixty four years,
spent every second here I was especially I was born
on Adams Street. Now we have a Son's of Italy
there and this six thousand cars a day. If there
was five functions at that Son's of Italy over a weekend,
there wouldn't be six thousand cars going up and down
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that from Friday night to Sunday night. And I drove
that today and I literally had to straddle that yellow,
double solid yellow line with my vehicle. But there's one
thing I really want to know and I would really
like to ask about all this transparency stuff. I believe
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there's a law on the books. I believe it's Massachusetts
General Law Chapter thirty B and thirty nine. And my
belief that if you put a job out, if you
hire a private contractor, you need to put that out
forbidding as a transparency thing for the taxpayers.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Now you could be for all I know, she might
have put it out. I don't know, and.
Speaker 12 (32:07):
That means that she had this in the works for
umteen weeks and still did not tell anybody.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Well, again, the timing to me is absolutely suspicious. It
could have been it could have been delayed for three
weeks and then after the event could have gone ahead
and done it it just I.
Speaker 12 (32:37):
Mean, I think we could have had a roundtable after
the event. But one thing you mentioned, Dan, that Newton
is a welcoming city of thirteen villages. Yes, no fourteen,
because no, nanthem Is is on the bottom. And the
reason why we are getting so much disrespect from this
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mayor is because we uh the only one of the
thirteen communities that have the guts to stand up to
her and let her know that no, we don't like this,
No we don't agree with that.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Well it might it might be that the other communities
have not you know, suffered these situations. I you know again,
just it could be that No Nantom has been picked on.
I don't know that. I don't live in No Nantom. Brian,
thank you, thank you for your comments. I'm trying to
get everybody in here if I can before the eleven
o'clock hour.
Speaker 12 (33:33):
Okay, all right, Dan, thank you for getting me in there,
and you have a great night.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Night talking to you, my pleasure. Let me go back
to Terry. Let's see if Terry's there now, Terry, can
you hear me?
Speaker 5 (33:41):
Now?
Speaker 9 (33:42):
Yeh?
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (33:43):
I can hear you. Got to go quickly for me, Terry,
because we've wasted a little bit of time.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Go right ahead, right.
Speaker 14 (33:49):
I'm the head of the No Nantom Neighborhood Association. I've
been living No Nantom all my life, which is a
very long time.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
All right.
Speaker 14 (33:56):
My grandfather daded the society back in nineteen thirty five,
carried on so it's and our electrical boxes that allayed
when she was on parking recreation all say, you know,
Nantum is a village of tradition, so for this person
that said on one of the calls that well, you know,
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let's compromise. You know that red, white, green line may
not mean anything to anybody else, but it's tradition down here.
And I mean we can go back and forth. And
I don't understand. I mean everybody has reiterated exactly.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
No, I know, and I think that people do understand
how important it is to the people of no Nantum
You were would I think people actually had that. Were
you satisfied with what the mayor had to say tonight
or no?
Speaker 14 (34:53):
No, okay, all right, no.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Expressed that differently. Go ahead.
Speaker 14 (35:03):
His name is Jordan's and they sent a letter too
from the Adams Street Show. And I had seen him
as stop sign and he rolled down the window and said, Terry,
you know when we gonna get the paint brushes. What
you know, let's let's paint. And years ago it was
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at our lady's church there was swastikas that was painted
on synagogue that by the cunan said, okay, this is
what happened. During the night. There was one hundred and
twenty five parishioners that we got our buckets and brought
in brushes and we went and we washed the swastika off.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
I remember that. I remember that, Terry, thank you for
defending nonantum. Your grandfather would be proud.
Speaker 14 (35:49):
Can I just read the statement that Jordan had said.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
No, because I have three other people, Terry, Terry, Terry,
I have three other people who I'd like to give
them a couple of a minute or so. But so
we've gone on for two twenty and we had about
forty seconds. So I'm gonna let you go for now,
but feel free to call the program any night. Let
me go next to Phil in Boston. Phil, you gotta
be quick for me, buddy.
Speaker 15 (36:12):
Yeah, okay, Dan. I came in later on this. I
don't know who the mayor or what. All I know
is that's what was driven down that street. You gotta
love it like it brightens up your whole day. I
haven't done this several times over the years, and it's nice.
Speaker 12 (36:25):
It's something different.
Speaker 15 (36:26):
Yes, And is the beef that they have to be
a white line? Is that the beef?
Speaker 2 (36:30):
No, the beef is they had a white line. The
mayor feels that it has to be now a yellow line.
And she took out not only the red and the green,
but the white line. Obviously the red and the green
and the white turned out would be represented the Italian colors.
And that's why people are upset. You got to start
listening earlier in the night. This has been a great
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hour tomorrow ago listen. Okay.
Speaker 15 (36:54):
Can I tell you that when I checked on the
computer said there's no standard color for it. You don't
have to have a standard color on the roadway, any
color you get truth. That's what I said of the.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Google No, no, fair enough. I don't know that everything
you read on everything you read on Google, remember this,
you check but verifies, as you know, trust but verify.
Speaker 15 (37:15):
I got thank reality, Okay, thank you, back to reality.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Thanks Phil. All Right, they're gonna get too in Jimmy
and Newton. Jimmy, I got room for you, and I
want to get Lillian as well.
Speaker 6 (37:23):
Go ahead, jim Hi, Dan, how you doing?
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Thanks for go ahead? You late?
Speaker 6 (37:28):
You ready? A city employee, I retired firefighter for thirty
one years in Newton. You know, I just wanted to say,
she's lying. That's what she does. She lies.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Well, that do me a favorite. I think you can
say that maybe she's prevaricating, not telling the truth, or
not being honest. But the word liar is a harsh word,
and I would ask you to strike that.
Speaker 6 (37:49):
Okay, I can handle that. But she does lie. Okay,
given that, ask her how the firefighter flag is working out?
Shed she made the firefighter flag disappear. I know that
four crustries.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
And I also think there was a perhaps a blue
Blue Lives a matter of flag also that was removed
in Newton as well, if I'm not mistaken, the thin
blue line flag.
Speaker 6 (38:12):
I think why people are upset because the momentum. People
are great people, quvolunteers to make it go right.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
And we've heard from them tonight. Jim, I wish your
call earlier. I'll give you more time. Thank you for
your service to Newton. Okay, thank you, sir.
Speaker 6 (38:27):
Thanks, I have a great night.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Okay, we got one minute left. We're going to go
to Lilian, Lily, and you are the last caller tonight
on this issue. We're going to change topics. You got
a minute, go ahead, Lilian.
Speaker 10 (38:38):
H great, thank you for taking my call. So I'm
a first generation Italian Americans. I was born and raised
in Newton, grew up in West Newton, neighboring village. I
just at one point I wanted to make but I'm
not hearing anyone bring up I know La Mayor said
it was, you know, due to state and federal law,
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but she's never had said like did they come to
her and say you have to do this, this is
a requirement, or did she just take it upon herself
to do it?
Speaker 5 (39:06):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 10 (39:07):
No one is She's everyone's kind of.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Like, well I talked with her. Did you hear the
interview I had with her?
Speaker 5 (39:13):
Or no I did.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
I think what I would suggest is go back. I
would suggest that maybe tomorrow people should go back and
listen to the interview at Nightsideemdemand dot com and they
can listen to it more carefully. I think that she
said she felt you had to do it, but the
timing of it is, I think is a big question. Lily.
Speaker 6 (39:36):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
I wish I wish you had gotten through earlier, but
I have the eleven o'clock news around the corner and
I did get you in. But I appreciate your call,
and please call a little early and I can give
you more time. Thanks. Thank you, Lili, have a great night.
We're going to talk about Donald Trump's continuing obsession with
Harvard University. I think it's justified, but I think that
(39:59):
he is trying to basically leverage Harvard, and I'm not
sure that that tactic is gonna work.
It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm WBS Costin's new video.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Dan, I remember Jim Tabor. I think it was a
third Basement if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Yeah, I just pulled up his Wikipedia page.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Nickname was raw Hyde, Third Basement, right, third Baseman for
the Socks and for the Phillies for a little bit.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah. No, I don't remember him, actually, but I know
of his reputation. Let me put it like that. I'm old,
but I'm not that old. Dan. Great to see you,
happy fourth. If they were going to get a chance
to talk.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Good to talk to you too, Dan, Sandy.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah, the Red Sox finally got some runs for Crochet
to Night. He didn't need them, but he got they.
You got a lot of them, that's for sure. So Hey,
that's take what he gets. Thirteen runs like that. Thanks
very much. We'll talk so Dan, all right, we are
back and we are sticking with our topic. We're talking
about a controversy in the Newton section then No Nantum
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section of Newton in which for many, many years, for
well for ninety years, there had been a white line
in the middle of Adams Street for about a half
a mile the heart of No Nantum and a red
and green line making the white line representative of the
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Italian flag was honored and was there, and it was
removed last Thursday morning. We talked last hour with Arianna Proye,
who was a young woman who was very much involved
in this festival that is coming up. We talked with
the Newton mayor, ruth An Fuller, and we talked with
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city council John Oliver, one of these city councilors who
represents most of not all, of no Nantum. He seems
perplexed by it. You heard the mayor, and you heard
what John had to say, and you hear what Arianna
had to say, and now it's an opportunity for you
to say what you want to say. We will take
as many phone call I think we'll go until eleven o'clock.
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So if you want to get in, the numbers are
six one, seven, two, four, ten thirty or six one, seven,
nine three thirty. This obviously has struck a very strong
chord within Newton. Let me go next to Anthony and Newton.
Anthony has been holding on for quite a while. Anthony,
appreciate your patience.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Go right ahead, Hi, Dan, My name is Anthony Puller.
Greeny Junior.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Okay, your family has been mentioned already, Go right ahead, Anthony.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Yeah, they call me Fatty and after my dad. I
don't know if you know my dad, Fat Puller Greenie Senior.
He was a community activist down here. But yeah, of
course we're disappointed on this. It's it's listen, she's not
running anymore. She has no no, uh you know, nothing
in the game anymore, so she could do what she wanted.
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I know her very well. She's called me when I've
gotten sick and stuff like that. We get along with.
But after seven years, she she's never done anything before.
And I think she's listening to to a certain executive
who she has the transportation engineer and put it in
her brain. But why now, that's what we want to know.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I think that's the question you heard. Were her answers satisfactory?
Do you? Or no? Obviously not.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Oh I don't to a lot of but I'm getting
calls from all over the country, all over the country
about this. Listen, you can't go down Adam Street. Let
me just explain. You can't go down Adam Street. Bus
is included without crossing the double yellow line. So I
did a video the other day, showing that. My question
was to her in the video, Well, then when you
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go down Ata Street, are you going to give yourself
a ticket going over the double yellow line. It's just
impossible to do, you know, it's not safety. Plus, you
put a thermal thing down, knowing full well that the
thermal will not take any paint over what we do,
So it's going to be really really high for us.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Well she did, she did, Anthony, Anthony, let me you
know the concession that she seemed to me to make,
and again I'm not the one to judge it. You are.
She said that the residents would be able to repaint.
She didn't say, you know, a week from now, two weeks,
she said, seemingly as soon as they want. I am
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a green, white and red stripe. Contiguous, I emphasized contiguous.
Someone to me had said today that that, uh, that
the offer had been made off to the side. There's
a difference between off to the side and contiguous. Was
that at all helpful or no?
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Wow, it's remained to be seen. You know what the
agreement comes. So you know, we've got a couple of
weeks to go.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Well, you have her, I could just tell you this uh,
in all honesty, Anthony, I emphasized to her, and I
think she understood exactly, and you have it on tape
when I said contiguous meaning next too contiguous, I mean
doesn't mean two feet away, five feet away. The street's
only thirty two feet wide, and with the cars on
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each side, that can take up to ten feet, so
there's really only twelve feet between between cars on both
sides of the street. And I wanted I emphasized the
word contiguous, and she seemed to accept that.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
I understand that. You know that. One of the beats
we have is that you know it's so why now
again that I'm going to get to you know, she
would you can't go down there without doing so that
safety thing. I don't wish she got that. But why now?
After seven years we had agreements dan with Maya Cohen,
Jeddi Warren. We had also had a permit to do it,
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and they never had a problem with it. We've been
doing it for years since I was the kids, since
the sixties that I remember, you know what I mean?
But why now? You know? I think it was just
because she could.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
And I asked, I asked her that question, and when
I ask someone a question, they have a chance to
answer it. I'm not going to keep repeating the same question,
to be honest with you, not my role.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
No, I get that. I get that, Anthony.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I appreciate your passion, and I hope you're able to
to come to a settlement which is at least at
a minimum satisfactory, may be very satisfactory to your organization.
That's why I'm taking their pose on.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
I really do. I hope so myself. I think it's
just unfortunate that, you know, like we said, we honor
her all the time. You know, she's been down here
all the time. Why she did this is it's it's unfathomable,
it really is. I don't understand it.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
All right, Well, let's hopefully we've shed a little light
on it tonight, Anthony. I appreciate your call.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Thank you, Thank you, Jain, You're very welcome.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
We're going to take a quick break. The only line
that's opened to six one seven, nine thirty if you're
trying to get through. The lines have been very full
right now, six one seven nine three one ten. He
will work coming back on night.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Side night Side Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Okay, we're catching up here. Let me go to l
who's a mayor who's running for mayor of Newton.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
L Chilly h Well, Dan yeap Ol Chick and Elli.
I'm running for mayor of the City of Newton, and
I think that this is bigger than the lines. They've
been trying to take the neighborhood out of our neighborhood
for a while now. The big push came with the
m bt A zoning. Yes, we had a thing that
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they tried to pass, the v c o D the
Village Center over development Plan, where they instead of just
where the mbt A wanted, they wanted to over develop
the entire city and we fought them and we won.
They wanted to bring six story buildings up and down
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Watertown Street, and that's not what our neighborhood is. There
are areas that six story buildings are great, but we
live in a neighborhood. They didn't like that. One of
our city councilors at a meeting said to our face,
if you do not like this, vote me out, and
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we did it.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Race.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
We voted her out. The mayor went after she was
voted out and put her on the zoning Board of appeals.
So now she's an unelected person who now has more
power than when she was on the city council.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
That's that's a nasty move. That's a nasty moved. Yeah,
is that is that a Is that a paid position?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
I believe it's a volunteer position when I was on the.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
But that probably helps you. But that even though it's
a volunteer position, it might help someone with their pension.
Might you should look into that as a candidate for
because I believe, you know, I don't know anything about it,
but just because if it's a it can it can
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help people in terms of service. So how many people
are running for mayor and Newton now at this point?
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Right now it looks like two of us myself and
Marc Laredo, And he's the president of the city council.
And you know, I feel that city council is part
of the problem. All of these developments have to go
through there. One street parallel to Adams Street is Craft Street,
also one of the top five traffic accidents in Newton,
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and they just approved to put close to five hundred
units with less than five hundred units of parking with
one entrance and exit onto Craft Street. So we're going
to have thousands of more vehicle trips in this area. Yea,
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and they they it's it's absurd. I was at a
planning board meeting. They recently were trying to put a
four story building in in the village center, and we
wanted it to stay with the three and one of
the people on the planning board said, oh, special permits.
That's a great way to get around this so we
can develop that area.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Okay, well again we're getting off a little bit. I
don't want to get into the okay Meyrrill campaign here
because I really am interested in trying to talk as
much as I can tonight about what has happened. And
obviously I know where you feel on this, and I'm
sure that people.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
I think, I think this is the wrong time. You know.
She cited that there was this was a federal regulation. Well,
Columbus stay is a federal holiday. They took that away.
We're a sanctuary city. Well, immigration laws of federal laws.
Why aren't we cooperating with federal immigration laws?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Okay, again, out here, you've taken me away from the conversation.
He would say, I got to get back to I appreciate.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Your calling right well, hey, and thank you Dan, Thank.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
You much appreciate the call. Let's keep rolling here, going
to go to trying to get people in based upon
the amount of time they have waited. Sendy in Newton,
sendy your next go right.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
Ahead, Hi, Ike, thank you for having me on. My
family is from Santinado. I've lived in Newton my whole
life and third generation out of Santon out and I'd
like to say the timing was really horrible and if
the mayor a win win I would think would be
if the mayor would offer to put those lines back
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instead of expecting that these volunteers that work so hard
at this and do an incredible job to expect them
to go back and repaint what they kind of desecrated
right before the fest, you know, right before the festa.
I think that she should have offered to paint them back,
and that would have been a win win. Listen, I've
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done this. I'm sorry, apologize, but take care of what
you've done well, I.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Think again, she implied that there were going to be
some follow on meetings, and I'm hoping I guarantee you
that I tend to have a reputation of a reporter.
When I was a reporter and I'm now a talk
show host, which is different. I like to stay on
top of these stories. Okay, so I invite anyone to
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keep me posted. If this story goes south, if there
isn't a satisfactory resolution, however you want to describe that,
I'm more than willing to consider reasonable opportunities to come back.
I wouldn't have committed to doing this tonight if I
didn't think it's an important story. I think what this
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shows is that a community can fight city hall, and
I think that's important. I really do. That's what journalists
are supposed to do, is help you people. From what
I understand, this community in No Nantum is virtually unanimous
on this. I don't think this is a close call.
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I'm sure that the mayor, probably who doesn't live in
No Nantum doesn't probably have a real sense as much
of the community as the people who live there. That's
an obvious statement. Hopefully she will have heard from some
of you tonight. I'm sure she heard from some of
you during the day to day, and let's see, let's
give her. You got to give people a chance. And
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if she doesn't, you know, rise to the occasion, then
then there's nothing that will prevent me from coming back
and doing this story again.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
Thank you so much, Thank you, Sandy.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
My pleasure. Thank you for calling the show. Please listen
to Nightside. And there are a lot of communities around
Massachusetts right now that are hurting. And if there's anything
that I can do for any community in Massachusets, you're
in my audience. You're in my listening audience. I'm here
to to hear those stories and to broadcast those stories. No,
(14:09):
Nantum is not alone. Newton is not alone. There's a
lot of communities and the state has problems as well.
So use me as a resource.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
Okay, thank you so much, thank.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
You, good thank you, good night, good night. Let me
keep rolling here. We are catching up. Janet is in Newton. Janet,
you were next on Nightside. Thanks for checking in. How
are you tonight?
Speaker 5 (14:31):
All right?
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Just want to speak of phone. Hi Dan Jannett.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
How you doing, Janet?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Where have you been for the last five years?
Speaker 8 (14:39):
In the last five years, Well, we'll have another conversation
about that, not now, but this I've been paying attention
what's going on in Newton? And I have to tell
you that this is like what I call another slap
in the face to no nantum from this mayor.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
And I don't understand she It's like she has got
a she's a vengeance, she's got a thing against this neighborhood.
It's really kind of creepy.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Well, I say, Janet, let me just say this. I
know where you're coming from, okay. Uh. And I have
to tell you, did you listen to the mayor tonight?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
I did listen to her, and I was really shocked
that she was quoting stuff without any data because the
crash data reports that she referenced are not they're not real.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I mean, let me, let me, let me just say this, okay,
and please understand what I'm saying. What I'm trying to say.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Yeah, yeah, most mayors and most elected officials, when faced
with a uh, confrontation or a dust up, whatever you
want to call it, Okay, they have exactly So.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
The one thing that I always give an elected official
some credit for is coming on and answering questions.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
And they will even if you don't tell them, even
if they don't answer truthfully. What the heck well to
tell the truth, Jenny, he's not running for reelection, Janet,
you know that she's not running for reelections.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I know I follow Newton. I follow Newton pretty closely, Jenny.
The point I'm trying to make is, oftentimes, uh, this
is not a court of law where we have standards
of evidence. And on my radio show, if I'm going
to ask a question and uh, the mayor refers to
say a report of some sort, uh, I don't have
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the ability to say, please would like to have that
submitted in evidence.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
And I understand you that.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I want to assume that people one tell the truth,
and two if it is an opinion. Sometimes people there's
there are differences opinion, and your truth might be not
my truth. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Let me make a point I want to make Dad Newton.
She's claiming that we have to abide by these federal regulations,
federal law. And I see these people marching on Saturdays
in Newton Center, no kings there. I hate Trump so much.
How about why don't we get out and protests in
donandum no queens, because let me tell you something, all.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
You have to do organize that lause, Janet.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
There are so many federal laws that Newton doesn't follow.
I mean, I mean, we have let people there, they're illegals,
go walk out of the back of courtrooms. Judge Shelley uh, and.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
She's facing some very serious potential consequences to that. You know, Janet,
if you want to go have a no Queen's protest,
do it. Do it. I'm not protesting, right, So when
you want to you want to sit there, you want
to sit there in the chief seats. And by one
call in five years to this radio station, somehow get
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a thousand people in the middle of Newton Center. Dream on, Janet,
dream on.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
I didn't. I did not say that.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
You're sure you imply people.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Knew Jane going no Kings. They're all opposite about Kings,
but they're happy with the queen.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
You know, she wants to be she is the queen.
But I wanted to point out that this has been
one of many of frontages that has come from this administration.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Okay, we're just talking about this one tonight, Janet. You
in the last five years, you should have been calling
me about other affront that she is. But I got
to run because I got the news coming up. Appreciate
your calling tonight, be well. Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten,
thirty one line is open back on Night's Side. Look,
my job here is to try to conduct a program
(18:39):
that is fair. I can take positions by virtue of
the stories I cover. In effect, if I didn't think
this was an important story, I wouldn't cover it. But Janet,
I don't think. She's called my show for five years
and now tonight she's gonna talk about no Kings demonstrations.
She's a big trumper. That's fine, be a trumper, but
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you know it's talk is cheap. These people need some help.
That's what we're trying to do. We'll be back on
Nightside right after the news at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
You're on night Side with Dan ray One. You bes
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Back we go, going to go to Susan and in Newton,
Susan you were next to a Nightside welcome.
Speaker 9 (19:21):
Oh hi, thanks stance this opportunity. Well, first of all,
I want to say, an apology goes a long way,
and with yet to hear the mayor apologize for her behavior.
And not only was it removing the stripe, but we
also had a public health hazard with all the smoke
and the dust and the noise that everyone was exposed to.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Yeah, it looked like I don't understand why you do
why you're doing this at night, And she didn't give
me an adequate answer on that.
Speaker 9 (19:52):
She talked to me, well, she was hiding behind it.
They've done it before during the day. She wanted to
do it so that the neighborhood wouldn't know, and she
got away with them.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
I mean, I I could be.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Wrong here, but I would assume that it's more expensive
at night for any company to do business like this.
I just think that Again, it seems to me, I
do not believe there was a police detail.
Speaker 9 (20:20):
It wasn't assigned, and the police weren't even aware of it.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
If there had been an accident, I mean, someone could have.
I sort of mentioned it to her that someone could
have been driving home after having had a couple of
glasses of wine or something, and then now you got
to now you have an accident on Adams Street.
Speaker 9 (20:39):
Yeah. But the other thing that Dan is the public
health has that's smoke in that dust that the residents
on that street were exposed to is inexcusable. It was
it was a hot night, people had maybe had windows open,
So that alone is a huge issue that never got
a dressed. Never mind the noise factor. You can't even
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have a leaf blower in Newton. But now you have
you heard.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I have a friend of mine that runs a landscape
company and he tells me that they're very strict with that. Horrible,
they'll send the leaf blower police out to tell that
they shut off.
Speaker 10 (21:20):
That's true, I think.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
By the way, Also, by the way, is not Newton
supposed to be a welcoming city?
Speaker 9 (21:28):
Well it's well nonantom is.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Yeah, No, I don't know.
Speaker 11 (21:34):
I think it's changed, unfortunately range.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
The timing of this is bad. And again I ask, horrible.
Speaker 9 (21:41):
That and how comes she didn't apologize? She is yet
to apologize to anybody. And it's also I think it's
sort of her patent too, she will not apologize for
any her behavior. I mean, we've seen this in the past,
so it's nothing new. But I do say, if she
really really only wants to repair the damage to this neighborhood,
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and it needs to be done before the feast, they
need to remove those yellow stripes and replace with the
Italian stripe, and that white stripe can still serve as
the traffic division stripe in the middle of the street.
It has for years and years and years. So I
think if she really does care for that little half
(22:24):
mile strip, she needs to compromise and just except she
made a huge mistake on this one and let it
go so that this community can repair and we can
move on. And in six months she'll be gone. But
this can go on her future if she does for real. Wise,
(22:45):
I don't know what she's playing on doing, but this
doesn't help, all right.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
I don't think.
Speaker 9 (22:50):
Yeah, time, but she apologize.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
You got a lot in and I all right, thank you.
Going to go to Elaine next. Elaine were next on nightside.
Speaker 11 (23:01):
Welcome, Hi, Dan, thank you very much for having me on.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Well, thank you for calling in.
Speaker 11 (23:08):
We met many years ago. You probably don't remember me.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
But at any rate, are you a lawyer?
Speaker 12 (23:15):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Okay, there was there was an Elane, a lawyer who
I thought lived in Newton, that that I had I
had spoken with on some issues. But go ahead. I
don't know what were the circumstances of our meeting. I
hope they were pleasant.
Speaker 11 (23:28):
Well, the first one wasn't. All the follow ups were.
I'll leave it at that, Dan, you think.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
About well you was was it a legal.
Speaker 11 (23:38):
Matter or no, No, we first met on a trash issue.
Speaker 13 (23:43):
Okay, fair enough, Okay, fair enough, okay, fine, any at
any rate, I think I put it, I think I
put I put it one and one together his, so
go ahead of lane.
Speaker 11 (23:55):
Okay, Yeah, you know, Dan, I'm not one to I
worked for the city for some over forty years. Yes, yes,
and prior to that I served on the Board on
Public Facilities, which oversaw DPW, and then I came back
to the city after I got my master's and worked
in DPW for twenty five years. Yes, and I was
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responsible for a lot of contracts and a lot of bids,
and as far as the line painting goes, it would
seem to me it depended on how the bid was
written or if it was a contract. And generally when
you write bids or contracts like that, you stay very specific.
(24:36):
So when you want them to do things and to
turn them on and say a company called and said
they can do it this time, it doesn't make sense
to me. Okay, And that.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Was what they just those who didn't hear my interview
with the mayor, that is what the mayor said. So
you're being critical, which is fine.
Speaker 11 (24:57):
Well, the question I have is you know, this is
a tip of the iceberg, and I know a lot
of people very upset with this. I've lived in this
area for seventy two years. My grandfather was one of
the founders of the society. My father came here at
eight years old to escape Mussolini and everybody. So we
(25:19):
go back a long way. But I think this is
a tip of the iceberg. And what we're seeing is
a lot of issues with the administration. And I'm not
going into it, but you alluded to certain things about
people in her position having to have their facts together,
(25:39):
and the problem is she has people around her who
don't give her the facts as the facts should be.
And I think that you know, I worked for Ted Mann,
and I worked for David Cohen and Sethie Warren, and
you better have had young information together when you went
to a meeting or you had to give me information
(26:00):
to them because you were held accountable. And one of
the problems is there is no accountability left in this city.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
And I think knowing knowing your knowing your background, you
now have familiarized me. You were a good city employee.
You were responsive to the concerns that I was experiencing. Uh,
and so I take your credibility and the experience that
(26:28):
I had with you. I weigh your remarks quite heavily.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
To be honest with you, well, thank you.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
You struck me at that time as an employee who
wanted to do the best for the citizens and the
taxpayers of Newton.
Speaker 11 (26:40):
And I I tried anyway, Thank you try.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
You tried a lot, and I and I missed talking
with you. To be honest with you. If you I
met you, well you can find me.
Speaker 11 (26:54):
But but two things out of the conversation that really
really bothered me. The fact that she downplayed a lot
of the smoke and the dust issues were really bothersome.
It's true because people could have COPDP, people could have
lung cancer, people could have asthma.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Well, people could just be sitting there on a very
hot night with their windows open, trying to go to sleep,
and for that to be happening at ten thirty at night,
particularly if you're somebody who has to get up at
five in the morning to go to work and mindustanding.
Is a lot of folks in the Donentum area. Are
you know people who who work for a living? They
(27:34):
work and work hard. If you know what I'm saying, and.
Speaker 11 (27:38):
Lou call it call the people, which.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Are great people. And for that to occur at ten
thirty at night, there's something that still doesn't hang right.
And I didn't want to accuse her, but that's almost
like some you know, when when there were plenty of
someone once said nothing good happens after midnight. Well, I
(28:05):
think when when when city vehicles are involved, probably nothing
good happens after ten o'clock as well.
Speaker 11 (28:10):
If you get my drift, I think you're right, I mean,
and none of this. It stinks, Dan, it really smells
not right.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Thank you for your time. It's great to reacquaint.
Speaker 11 (28:25):
Can I just make one other comment?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Got to be quick for me because I'm up on
my brake.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
Go ahead, Elane, real quick.
Speaker 11 (28:31):
When she made a comment, you you questioned her figures,
and she made a comment and said, well, I'm not
good at numbers.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
You have a six.
Speaker 11 (28:43):
Hundred million dollar budget and you're not good at numbers.
It's very, very disturbing, and so what happened down on
Antem is a surprising.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
Dan.
Speaker 11 (28:53):
All right, have a night's night. I'll try to catch
up with you.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
I hope you will. Elaine. You know I'm around town.
When you see me, say hello, come.
Speaker 11 (29:01):
On, are you still Are you still living and living?
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Yep, yep, still been here now nearly twenty years.
Speaker 11 (29:10):
And who knows, maybe I'll knock on your door soon.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
That's okay too, thanks very much, I'll talk to you soon.
All right, good night, all right. I got to take
a break. I only got one line, six one seven,
nine thirty. I am going to wrap this at eleven
unless the phone just go nuts. But I have four
lines right now. I'm going to get Brian, Phil, Jimmy
and Terry in, and I do have room for one
(29:35):
more six one seven, nine thirty, coming right back on
night Side. I do intend to switch topics at eleven.
I want to thank everyone who is called tonight. This
is obviously a very I believe that the government that
affects our lives most is not the White House. It's
not Congress, it's not the State House. It's our local communities.
(29:57):
And this is exhibit A. We'll be back on Nightside
after this.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
It's nice with Boston.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
We'll get everybody in, starting with Terry Newton. Terry, you
were next on Nightside.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
Welcome, thank you.
Speaker 14 (30:13):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
I can hear you find Terry, go right ahead. I
still can hear you, Terry, go right ahead.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
You can hear me.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Okay, Rob, why don't you work with Terry here and
explain to her. She's got to probably adjust something on
her situation. Next up is Brian and Brian, I'm I
do hear you? Brian? Go right ahead?
Speaker 12 (30:35):
Yes, good evening, Dan, How are you great?
Speaker 2 (30:38):
What's on your mind? Brian?
Speaker 12 (30:39):
I have a I'm going to give her the benefit
of the doubt and say I never heard anyone spew
so much misinformation. Well we'll leave it at that.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
I that kind way of saying it. Go right ahead.
Speaker 12 (30:54):
I was born and raised a Newton sixty four years,
spent every second here I was especially I was born
on Adams Street. Now we have a Son's of Italy
there and this six thousand cars a day. If there
was five functions at that Son's of Italy over a weekend,
there wouldn't be six thousand cars going up and down
(31:14):
that from Friday night to Sunday night. And I drove
that today and I literally had to straddle that yellow,
double solid yellow line with my vehicle. But there's one
thing I really want to know and I would really
like to ask about all this transparency stuff. I believe
(31:38):
there's a law on the books. I believe it's Massachusetts
General Law Chapter thirty B and thirty nine. And my
belief that if you put a job out, if you
hire a private contractor, you need to put that out
forbidding as a transparency thing for the taxpayers.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Now you could be for all I know, she might
have put it out. I don't know, and.
Speaker 12 (32:07):
That means that she had this in the works for
umteen weeks and still did not tell anybody.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Well, again, the timing to me is absolutely suspicious. It
could have been it could have been delayed for three
weeks and then after the event could have gone ahead
and done it it just I.
Speaker 12 (32:37):
Mean, I think we could have had a roundtable after
the event. But one thing you mentioned, Dan, that Newton
is a welcoming city of thirteen villages. Yes, no fourteen,
because no, nanthem Is is on the bottom. And the
reason why we are getting so much disrespect from this
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mayor is because we uh the only one of the
thirteen communities that have the guts to stand up to
her and let her know that no, we don't like this,
No we don't agree with that.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Well it might it might be that the other communities
have not you know, suffered these situations. I you know again,
just it could be that No Nantom has been picked on.
I don't know that. I don't live in No Nantom. Brian,
thank you, thank you for your comments. I'm trying to
get everybody in here if I can before the eleven
o'clock hour.
Speaker 12 (33:33):
Okay, all right, Dan, thank you for getting me in there,
and you have a great night.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Night talking to you, my pleasure. Let me go back
to Terry. Let's see if Terry's there now, Terry, can
you hear me?
Speaker 5 (33:41):
Now?
Speaker 9 (33:42):
Yeh?
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (33:43):
I can hear you. Got to go quickly for me, Terry,
because we've wasted a little bit of time.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Go right ahead, right.
Speaker 14 (33:49):
I'm the head of the No Nantom Neighborhood Association. I've
been living No Nantom all my life, which is a
very long time.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
All right.
Speaker 14 (33:56):
My grandfather daded the society back in nineteen thirty five,
carried on so it's and our electrical boxes that allayed
when she was on parking recreation all say, you know,
Nantum is a village of tradition, so for this person
that said on one of the calls that well, you know,
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let's compromise. You know that red, white, green line may
not mean anything to anybody else, but it's tradition down here.
And I mean we can go back and forth. And
I don't understand. I mean everybody has reiterated exactly.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
No, I know, and I think that people do understand
how important it is to the people of no Nantum
You were would I think people actually had that. Were
you satisfied with what the mayor had to say tonight
or no?
Speaker 14 (34:53):
No, okay, all right, no.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Expressed that differently. Go ahead.
Speaker 14 (35:03):
His name is Jordan's and they sent a letter too
from the Adams Street Show. And I had seen him
as stop sign and he rolled down the window and said, Terry,
you know when we gonna get the paint brushes. What
you know, let's let's paint. And years ago it was
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at our lady's church there was swastikas that was painted
on synagogue that by the cunan said, okay, this is
what happened. During the night. There was one hundred and
twenty five parishioners that we got our buckets and brought
in brushes and we went and we washed the swastika off.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
I remember that. I remember that, Terry, thank you for
defending nonantum. Your grandfather would be proud.
Speaker 14 (35:49):
Can I just read the statement that Jordan had said.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
No, because I have three other people, Terry, Terry, Terry,
I have three other people who I'd like to give
them a couple of a minute or so. But so
we've gone on for two twenty and we had about
forty seconds. So I'm gonna let you go for now,
but feel free to call the program any night. Let
me go next to Phil in Boston. Phil, you gotta
be quick for me, buddy.
Speaker 15 (36:12):
Yeah, okay, Dan. I came in later on this. I
don't know who the mayor or what. All I know
is that's what was driven down that street. You gotta
love it like it brightens up your whole day. I
haven't done this several times over the years, and it's nice.
Speaker 12 (36:25):
It's something different.
Speaker 15 (36:26):
Yes, And is the beef that they have to be
a white line? Is that the beef?
Speaker 2 (36:30):
No, the beef is they had a white line. The
mayor feels that it has to be now a yellow line.
And she took out not only the red and the green,
but the white line. Obviously the red and the green
and the white turned out would be represented the Italian colors.
And that's why people are upset. You got to start
listening earlier in the night. This has been a great
(36:50):
hour tomorrow ago listen. Okay.
Speaker 15 (36:54):
Can I tell you that when I checked on the
computer said there's no standard color for it. You don't
have to have a standard color on the roadway, any
color you get truth. That's what I said of the.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Google No, no, fair enough. I don't know that everything
you read on everything you read on Google, remember this,
you check but verifies, as you know, trust but verify.
Speaker 15 (37:15):
I got thank reality, Okay, thank you, back to reality.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Thanks Phil. All Right, they're gonna get too in Jimmy
and Newton. Jimmy, I got room for you, and I
want to get Lillian as well.
Speaker 6 (37:23):
Go ahead, jim Hi, Dan, how you doing?
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Thanks for go ahead? You late?
Speaker 6 (37:28):
You ready? A city employee, I retired firefighter for thirty
one years in Newton. You know, I just wanted to say,
she's lying. That's what she does. She lies.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Well, that do me a favorite. I think you can
say that maybe she's prevaricating, not telling the truth, or
not being honest. But the word liar is a harsh word,
and I would ask you to strike that.
Speaker 6 (37:49):
Okay, I can handle that. But she does lie. Okay,
given that, ask her how the firefighter flag is working out?
Shed she made the firefighter flag disappear. I know that
four crustries.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
And I also think there was a perhaps a blue
Blue Lives a matter of flag also that was removed
in Newton as well, if I'm not mistaken, the thin
blue line flag.
Speaker 6 (38:12):
I think why people are upset because the momentum. People
are great people, quvolunteers to make it go right.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
And we've heard from them tonight. Jim, I wish your
call earlier. I'll give you more time. Thank you for
your service to Newton. Okay, thank you, sir.
Speaker 6 (38:27):
Thanks, I have a great night.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Okay, we got one minute left. We're going to go
to Lilian, Lily, and you are the last caller tonight
on this issue. We're going to change topics. You got
a minute, go ahead, Lilian.
Speaker 10 (38:38):
H great, thank you for taking my call. So I'm
a first generation Italian Americans. I was born and raised
in Newton, grew up in West Newton, neighboring village. I
just at one point I wanted to make but I'm
not hearing anyone bring up I know La Mayor said
it was, you know, due to state and federal law,
(38:58):
but she's never had said like did they come to
her and say you have to do this, this is
a requirement, or did she just take it upon herself
to do it?
Speaker 5 (39:06):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 10 (39:07):
No one is She's everyone's kind of.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Like, well I talked with her. Did you hear the
interview I had with her?
Speaker 5 (39:13):
Or no I did.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
I think what I would suggest is go back. I
would suggest that maybe tomorrow people should go back and
listen to the interview at Nightsideemdemand dot com and they
can listen to it more carefully. I think that she
said she felt you had to do it, but the
timing of it is, I think is a big question. Lily.
Speaker 6 (39:36):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
I wish I wish you had gotten through earlier, but
I have the eleven o'clock news around the corner and
I did get you in. But I appreciate your call,
and please call a little early and I can give
you more time. Thanks. Thank you, Lili, have a great night.
We're going to talk about Donald Trump's continuing obsession with
Harvard University. I think it's justified, but I think that
(39:59):
he is trying to basically leverage Harvard, and I'm not
sure that that tactic is gonna work.
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