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Michael Napert
Michael Napert lives in Fall River.
Here we are, just about to enter a new election cycle, and we have some very important decisions to make.
On the one hand, we have a respectable incumbent in Mayor Paul Coogan, only because he hasn’t really embarrassed the city too badly (yet). His respectability however, is very quickly being diminished by his ineffectiveness in dealing with Superintendent Matt Malone. The fact that he’s unable to act in his capacity as chair of the School Committee, because the Massachusetts Ethics Commission gave him a free pass, is both a blessing (to him) and a source of great consternation to many of us.