Former New Bedford Mayor Fred Kalisz Passes Away
NEW BEDFORD Former New Bedford Mayor and current Southern Bristol County Register of Deeds Dr. Frederick M. Kalisz, Jr. has passed away due to complications with COVID-19.
Kalisz’s brother Michael Kalisz posted the news on Facebook just before 8 a.m. that the former mayor had died this morning. He was 63 years old.
Fred Kalisz was sworn into office on January 5, 1998, and served eight years as mayor before he was defeated by Scott W. Lang. Prior to his time as mayor, Kalisz served eight years on the New Bedford City Council, including serving as council president. He had also served almost four and a half years as program manager for the Buzzards Bay Project.
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Being our semi-regular weekly survey of what s goin down in the several states where, as we know, the real work of government gets done, and where the priest wore black on the seventh day and sat stone-faced while the building burned.
We begin in Louisiana, where years of overdevelopment and industrial pollution have placed in jeopardy the Atchafalaya River Basin, the largest river basin in the country. Governor John Bel Edwards has begun what he hopes is a major effort to save the unique ecology of the region. From NOLA.com:
The executive order directs the task force to submit an initial report by Sept. 1, 2021 that will focus on how to best manage navigation, flood control, economics and restoration within the basin and using the basin’s resources along the coast. The report will be submitted to the state Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority. The report also is expected to address sources of funding for basin projects an
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey on Wednesday took aim at statements made by Bristol County Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson where he blasted the AG s explosive 60-page report that wrapped up her office s six-month investigation into what happened during a violent May 1 altercation at the sheriff s ICE lockup facility in North Dartmouth.
Speaking to reporters Wednesday, the Republican sheriff attacked the Democratic attorney general s report on the conflict at the C. Carlos Carreiro Immigration Detention Center as “baseless” and “politically motivated,” called Healey a political hack, and accused her of creating a false narrative of the incident.
Healey s report accused Hodgson and his officers of violating detainees’ civil rights during a chaotic melee involving dogs and pepper spray that sent two men to the hospital with respiratory distress and left another with an apparent heart attack. That man was revived from unconsciousness via emergency chest compression
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Adam Reilly discussed his reporting on scholastic sports during the era of COVID-19 and the pressure on local-level leaders around whether or not to postpone basketball and hockey seasons as Massachusetts returns to phase three, step one of Gov. Baker s reopening plan. Reilly is a reporter for GBH news and co-host of GBH’s politics podcast
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We opened lines to talk with listeners about your experiences with scholastic sports during the pandemic.
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