A View From Battleship Cove

• Cyber Monday!

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  It's Cyber Monday, THE day of the holiday season for internet buying! What's the perfect gift for the blog reading loved one in your family? How about a A View From Battleship Cove travel mug, or a Fall River Blog coffee mug? How about a [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 10:52am EST
  by Lefty

• Conflict of Interest?

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  A comment on a recent post brought up an interesting question...
   
  Anonymous said...
  
  
  
  I noticed Sterile Snooze Editor Lisa Strattan's Boyfriend Jimmy Mathes is on the mayor's transition team.
  Doesn't that failing paper know what a conflict of interest is?
  
  
  7:34' [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 11:03pm EST
  by Lefty

• Big John at Battleship Cove

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  Recently Fall River-tastic featured a post about having a tournament for the board game Battleship at Battleship Cove aboard the USS Massachusetts. One of the commentors made a keen suggestion:
  
  
  Anonymous said...
  
  What about a Battleship board game where the pieces represent the actual ships [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 7:12pm EST
  by Lefty

• Cranberry Imposter

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  What the hell?! Here it is DAYS away from Thanksgiving, the all-American holiday and what do I see in Saturday's Herald News? An article making the case for a cranberry stand-in, the lingonberry!
  
  Now, the article was an Associated Press article and not written by a local' [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:57am EST
  by Lefty

• Fall River Thoughts

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  Will Power
  
  Originally I was going to do a post just on Mayor-elect Flanagan naming his current boss, Steven Torres, as his Corporation Council. It's an interesting choice. I would imagine that after working for him for 3 years our next Mayor feels that Torres is both qualified' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:31am EST
  by Lefty

• Keeping a roof over the unemployed

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  The papers have been full of stories discussing Representative Barney Frank's proposal to give loans to unemployed homeowners struggling to stay in their homes. The money for this proposal would come from the interest the Fed collects from the financial industry bailout.
  
  I can't really argue against this.' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:17am EST
  by Lefty

• As FROED looks to expand its base, maybe we should look in a different direction.

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  Good news the source of Fall River's economic turnaround, the key to our Renaissance is offering its assistance to our neighboring communities!
  
  That's right the Fall River Office of Economic Development "broadening its base to include the surrounding towns of Freetown, Somerset, and Westport".
  
  Oh Joy! Really [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 6:39pm EST
  by Lefty

• Election Day Thoughts - Part III

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  OK, I'll admit I was shocked by the election results for Mayor. Not just by the decisiveness but just overall the result.
  
  I didn't expect Will Flanagan to win.
  
  Don't get me wrong, I knew he had a loyal following and I knew he had gotten all these' [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 10:59am EST
  by Lefty

• Change...it aint' a comin'

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  If anyone thought a new mayor would mean a new direction for Fall River they don't have to look any further than the City Council to realize that isn't going to happen.
  
  Not only is every incumbent City Councilor who ran for re-election returning for another term, but City [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:15pm EST
  by Lefty

• Election Day Thoughts Part II

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  It only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades....
  
  Being elected to the council is a lot like hitting a home run in baseball, it doesn't matter how far it goes as long as it clears the wall. Still, it's interesting to take a look at the vote totals in [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 9:30am EST
  by Lefty

• Election Day Thoughts Part I

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  WARNING - OBJECTIVITY MAY HAVE BEEN THROWN OUT THE WINDOW!
  
  Well it's over. All the build up over the last several months has come to a climax for some there is the warm afterglow of a hard fought race won, for others the bitter aftertaste off defeat. Let's rundown [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:17am EST
  by Lefty