I think he says "kinda interesting and nice" but I am not hearing him say "safe," unless I am watching the wrong clip.

You are right Mary. Time to broom. Mr Wishoski and Ms Burke have been there for ages. I retired from police 1994 and they were there many years before I retired. No city is safe. You can't have a cop assigned to every household. It is the court system that has to change. An eye for an eye is my moto. Judges should be elected mot appointed.

Mr. Duffy was hired by the mayor, along with the rest of his staff, and they were approved by the city council at the beginning of Christenson's term.

Hank,,
Theorectically, there is a Board of Commissioners which is suppose to watch the MRA. However, since these Board Members are appointed by the mayor(all are holdoves from the previous administration), whether or they do is questionable. A few years ago, the MRA and the Mayor's office was caught using Federal Grant money to pay for lunches over at Artichokes, which was across the street where the Mexican place is going in. This practice was illegal, and they were forced to pay the money back using other funds. And it wasn't the Board that brought the issue public. Someone quitely and anonymously dropped a dime to the council, which in turn brought the issue to the public's attention.

What qualifies anyone for a position in local government? Mostly it's that they actually take an interest in local government and show up ready to do something, which of course 99.3% of people don't do. What do you know of that disqualifies him for this job?

Nice to see the holiday put everyone in a crucifyin' mood.

Sorry Inna, but I had to cut a lot out to make the highlight reels work in a coherent way. I am compressing an hour of conversation into two minute snippets, and I'm afraid a lot of stuff I'd love to include got cut from the highlights above.

For what it's worth, I included your comments, in their entirety, about your vision for Malden in 2040, during which your ideas for a cultural center and a biomedical industry are mentioned. While I didn't include your question to keep the videos moving quickly, I included Steve's answers to your questions about the baseball stadium as well. Readers that watch the discussion on the MATV website will still see the conversation in its entirety, but for this article, I wanted our readers to have little video bites of information about projects already on the table.

Lydia, if you do a Google search on Kevin Duffy, you can look up his background and profile on LinkedIn:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinjduffy

It's where all the cool kids are.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/chriscaesar

Keep in mind that Kevin is the one who wrote everything on Linkedin. I was surprised to see him included in the new administration. Healthy Malden Inc is now shut down, correct? And he was the last "Captain of the Ship" so to speak. It does seem that his lack of business experience would be a hinderance to someone being a Business Development Officer. That said, he is a nice guy and hope he does well, because that would be a benefit to the city.

Lydia, my apologies if I misinterpreted your post. I was just kind of bemused at the tone the thread had taken, which seemed to me pretty much "Throw the bums out! Get new people! Oh look... new guy! Throw the bum out!!!"

Spoke to him about this, Annie. There was an investigation and Duffy was never called before the grand jury to testify.