Please be advised that Governor Deval L. Patrick has ordered that the United States flag and the Commonwealth flag be lowered to half-staff at all state buildings located in the city of Boston beginning immediately and until sunset on Thursday, April 3, 2014, and at all remaining state buildings beginning at sunrise on Wednesday, April 2, 2014 until sunset on Thursday, April 3, 2014, in honor of Lieutenant Edward J. Walsh, 43, and Firefighter Michael R. Kennedy, 33, of the Boston Fire Department who died in the line of duty on March 26, 2014. This gubernatorial order applies to: 1. The main or administration building of each public institution of the Commonwealth, e.g. town and city halls 2. Other state-owned or state-controlled buildings 3. All state military installations.
I wish they would get the contractor back that built the new bridge so that they can repaint all the traffic lines. They all wore off in less than a year. How funny is that?
This letter is for the young blonde woman I passed when I entered the building at 16 Union Street on Thursday about 1:30 in the afternoon. By the time I was heading back to my car, you were in the passenger seat of a beat up pickup truck parked at the entrance to the building. As I passed by, you took a deep puff of a bong and then looked up and caught my eye. You do not know me. I could be your aunt, your next-door neighbor, a former or current teacher, one of your customers, or your boss. Judging by the look on your face, you knew you had been caught doing something wrong. You bent over to duck out of sight- as if you could in a vehicle that’s parked at the foot of the stairs of a busy lunchtime eatery. I shook my head in sadness for the opportunities you are blowing off. You have a world full of opportunities ahead of you. None of them is visible through the haze in the front seat of your boyfriend’s beat up pickup truck. I urge you to get out and give up this habit. Set your sights on goals that will challenge you and enrich your life, your mind and your soul.
