Now you see it... now you don't
Well, here we go again, the local daily rage-of-record is once again excavating deeper to find its new standards in community service. They have so far failed to hit oil but China cannot be far off. They have been digging continuously for years. While [...]
Chuck Kleekamp actually is a fairly pleasant guy. At no point should any of what I say be taken as an argument against his decency or character. But his statements in support of Cape Wind do make me wonder where he received his engineering training. Chuck is always careful to [...]
You Could Be The Next Poker MILLIONAIRE
Who needs a casino when a laptop will do?
By Peter Kenney
Recently released figures show that various interests have combined to exceed in $2 billion in expenditures for lobbying in the year 2007. The cause that earned such support...online gambling. Even the giant credit [...]
Building Commish Keeps File Under Wraps
Public records elude citizen’s inspection
By Peter Kenney
“I’ll see if he’s in his office.”
These words, heard over a telephone, are as chilling and bleak as “I'll have to put you on hold for a minute" or, in an electronic drone, "XYZ appreciates your [...]
MMS DEIS DOA – Disaster on Arrival
By Peter Kenney
The long-awaited Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) on the Cape Wind application to place 130 wind turbines in the waters of Nantucket Sound is finally out. Written by the United States Department of Interior's Minerals Management Service [...]
No Candy for Deval
State vs. Tribe – follow the money
By Peter Kenney
The first non-white governor in Massachusetts history has filed a formal opposition to the petition of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribeWhat would life be without irony? The first non-white governor in Massachusetts [...]
Following the evidence from Woburn to Mashpee
By Peter Kenney
Federal judges are powerful people. How they conduct themselves and, more importantly, how they direct the trials over which they preside have an enormous effect on all of us. Often we do not see the effect, are not [...]
The continuing drama of sovereignty and land claims
Mashpee-Wampanoag land-claim issue is far from settled
By Peter Kenney
Last fall, the Town of Mashpee was unable to present to its special town meeting a completed agreement between the town and the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe.
This [...]
The continuing drama of sovereignty and land claims
Mashpee-Wampanoag land-claim issue is far from settled
By Peter Kenney
Last fall, the Town of Mashpee was unable to present to its special town meeting a completed agreement between the town and the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe.
This [...]
Around and Around We Go!
Playing the circle game
By Peter Kenney
For as long as anyone can remember the traffic circle known as the Airport Rotary in Hyannis has been a central feature of discussions around transportation issues on Cape Cod. It sits in the middle of Route 28, serves [...]
Truro’s Town Fool
Peter Manso, meet Bartley-Fox
By Peter Kenney
I have never met Peter Manso. But I feel there is good reason for me to dislike him. And I do. Five years ago I read his book, “Ptown: Art, Sex, and Money on the [...]
A Black Sheep Among the Kennedy Clan
Or a white one among all the rest?
By Peter Kenney
Has anyone noticed the 40-year-old correspondent on Fox news with the familiar hooded eyes? He is the youngest child of Robert and Ethel Kennedy, Douglas Harriman Kennedy. After graduating Brown [...]
They drink. They drive. They are caught and prosecuted. And still they drive again. People carrying multiple drunk driving convictions on their records are routinely found drunk behind the wheel, sometimes after causing serious [...] 
The injuries suffered by our surviving troops are often horrific. Simple bullet wounds are less common than traumatic amputations, severe burns and massive internal and skeletal injuries caused by explosives, the crude but effective Improvised Explosive Devices used by our adversaries.
A cruel and uncertain future [...]
Does anyone really care?
Beyond Walter Reed – A Cape Cod Story
By Peter Kenney
There actually is a word -- “Sailorization” -- in common usage, at least in the United States Navy. Sailorization is the Navy’s description of the transformation of raw recruits into sailors during basic [...]
A friend in need is a friend indeed
By Peter Kenney
When Alaska Senator Ted Stevens used the age-old congressional method of sneaking a pet measure into law he was caught by environmentalists and publicly flogged in the press. And so he should have been. Stevens is the [...]
Desecration in the name of renewable profits
By Peter Kenney
The surprise that one week before Thanksgiving Massachusetts Speaker of the House Sal DiMasi had thrown a last-minute Mickey into a state energy bill was no surprise at all…just business as usual. Well… maybe not so usual. The [...]
Rigging in the wind
By Peter Kenney
The smart money knew the fix was in two years ago when word started circulating that construction mogul Jay Cashman would move to erect a 120-unit wind farm in Buzzards Bay. Cashman’s proposal meant [...]
Ambush at Eelgrass Pass
Trampled rights and muddied waters
By Peter Kenney
On October 18 of this year the Cape Cod Commission issued a procedural denial of the application by Cape Wind Associates to install an electric transmission cable under a portion of Nantucket Sound and underground through portions of the towns [...]
The Next Moon Shot
We need it now
By Peter Kenney
Where is the next moon shot when we need it? A nation swelled with pride, some might say disbelief, when a new president declared that the United States would land a man on the moon and return him home safely by [...]
Big Foot -- carbon, that is
By Peter Kenney
Al Gore has a special fondness for new taxes, even when he collects them illegally. He also seems to have problems with truth and doing as he says other should do. Of course, he is not alone in this. [...]
Next to Agendacrats the Hypocrats are the Worst
Forked Tongue + Party Line
By Peter Kenney
Ancient Greece gave us democracy and the word hypocrite. Now the world's greatest democracy has combined the Greek word for those who speak with forked tongue and those who adhere to a particular party line. [...]
Double TroubleContempt for Orderly Process and Ordinary Citizens
Subverting the vote in Yarmouth
By Peter Kenney
By a vote of 3 to 2 the Yarmouth selectmen on Tuesday began their march toward overturning last year’s decision by town meeting to let the people of Yarmouth be heard on the issue of withdrawal from the [...]
Lottery History Tells the Future of Casinos?
From grand designs to cheap scams
By Peter Kenney
The official website for the Massachusetts State Lottery says, “The Massachusetts State lottery was established by the Legislature in 1971, in response to the need for revenues for the 351 cities and towns [...]
Saying one thing, doing another
By Peter Kenney
Verizon advertises that, as a company, they are very active in community affairs. Their actual behavior, though, seems at odds with their claims. The public access television station that serves the five towns of Barnstable, Yarmouth, Dennis, Harwich and Chatham has long [...]
All casino license applicants are treated equal
But some applicants are more equal than others
By Peter Kenney
When Governor Deval Patrick announced his 79-page gambling bill last week he said his administration would offer federally recognized Indian applicants “preference.” What does that word mean [...]
In politics, enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you
Slander is an arrow, but there has to be a bow, a very low bow
(Anonymous Letter)
A vote for Aaron Tobey will set the Tribe backwards. Don't let him.
He supports the shunned members.
[...]
By Peter Kenney
Send a News Tip here.The internal politics of any family, clan, tribe or race can be brutal. [...]
Who has seized control of the Tribe's government?
No quorum, no meeting, the "control" continues
By Peter Kenney
At least one tribe member says he knows what is going on with the mysterious [...]
Look who wouldn't represent the Binghams
Governor's wife is a lawyer at the same firm
When Steve Bingham and his mother Amelia, now shunned by their Mashpee tribe, were referred to Ropes and Gray for legal help a few months ago, the mighty Boston law firm declined the invitation. The Binghams [...]
Will Wampanoags' "new buffalo" ever become reality?
And why are their "investors" competing against them?
By Peter Kenney
Since 1620 the Wampanoag tribe has been getting cheated. Now that their 30-year struggle for recognition is won, they have been mishandled by their corrupt former tribal council [...]
The winners always write the history
Mashpee was their land, and it was taken from them
By Peter Kenney
Wampanoags objected to abuses in the 1600s and eventually their displeasure took the form of King Phillip's War. [...]
The Deval is in the details
Gov. Everyman's program: 50,000 jobs in construction & casinos
By Peter Kenney
Ever the humanitarian, Gov. Deval Patrick is committed to lifting everyone he can out of misery. He knows that gambling is an addictive disorder for some and its consequences are more [...]
"Beware the man with the green heart" - Wampanoag adage
By Peter Kenney
What do Gov. Deval Patrick, late federal Judge Walter Skinner and attorney James St. Clair, also deceased, have in common? All graduated from mighty Harvard Law School.
Judge Walter Skinner manipulated the trial in [...]
What's YOUR idea?
Funny you should ask. My personal belief is that gambling is overrated as a fix for our economic woes. Healthy and balanced economies do the job much better, with gambling as an amusement within that context. If there is to be gaming in Massachusetts with casinos, [...]
So much has happened, but it's far from over
From this a fresh, squeaky-clean proud Wampanoag Nation will rise
Late July seems a long time ago if we measure time by what has happened in the story of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe and their casino gambling plans in Middleboro. [...]
Shawn Hendricks and Desire' Hendricks Moreno to quit today
And the word "bribe" rhymes with "tribe"
Scott Ferson is president of the Liberty Square Group, a Boston lobbying and public relations firm based in Boston with an office in Washington, D.C. He is identified as the official [...]
This has never been about the tribe, but about Glenn Marshall's deals
The tribe, for me, remains a wonderful group of people, as diverse as any other ethnic or cultural group. Their virtues and foibles place them squarely among the rest of us trying to make it through life with as little [...]
If he "knew nothing," he should have
Could that make Hendricks incompetent or complicit?
G
lenn Marshall is gone. He was forced out of his post as head of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council because he brought shame on the tribe by his continued lies and ugly past. Some would say an ugliness [...]
By Peter Kenney
More than one hundred-fifty members of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe gathered last night to deal with a painful chapter in their history. On a cool August evening with a full moon lighting clear skies Wampanoag Indians arrived at a function hall in Cotuit for a seven o'clock meeting [...]
Five Purple Hearts AND the Silver Star for Valor?
A search of an on-line directory of Marine Corps recipients of the silver star during the Vietnam war reveals no one named Glenn Marshal
Glenn Marshall, president of the tribal council of the Mashpee Wampanoag Indians, is proud to [...]
