Candidates on the Issues

Starting Monday, Save Fitchburg will feature a Q & A from the candidates for the House seat. They'll give their views on taxes, education, what they want to do in their first term, and more. And if you're concerned DiNatale will take another pass, don't worry, we already got his answers. It'll run three days, two questions a day, and hopefully will do a decent job contrasting the two candidates. Their answers will run without edit, and I'll throw in a little analysis, because I can.

Coming later today (after the Sentinel story is available online): A look at last night's FSC-area parking meeting. A solution is necessary up there, but at this point I'm not sure either side is right (yes, that's Rachel going ballistic right now). From reading the Telegram story, residents have a sense of entitlement (the "they consider themselves residents" line is particularly troublesome) that fueled with DeSalvatore's "no deals" line is pretty tough to see as open to compromise. Students, of course, are infused with that late-teens/early-20s sense of being above it all, and look down at the neighborhood, without question. I want to read the Sentinel story first before getting too much into this, but it's worth noting early today that this issue is a big, big problem not just in terms of the issue of parking, but in the attitudes of both sides.