It is the debate that will not die.
Does the mayor have a right to speak at City Council meetings?
It first flared more than a year ago when former Salem City Councilor Steve Pinto invoked a rule that allows a single councilor to block a member of the audience from speaking. In this case, he prevented Mayor Kim Driscoll from making her case for a new lease agreement for a City Hall annex.
It seems like a simple question: Should water and other noncarbonated drinks be subject to the state's bottle redemption laws?
It's an issue, however, that has been debated in the state Legislature for 14 years, with no resolution. Now it's coming up again, and Salem state Rep. John Keenan is right in the middle of it.
MIDDLETON — Her U.S. Senate campaign has little cash and no paid staff, and she is virtually unknown to most would-be Massachusetts voters.
Yet Democrat Marisa DeFranco, an immigration attorney from Middleton, is on the verge of qualifying for the September primary ballot, denying the party's prohibitive favorite, Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren, the ability to focus exclusively on Republican incumbent Scott Brown.
Salem
Sunday
Nothing was discovered after a report at 12:45 a.m. of cars racing and possible gunshots near the Highland Avenue Walmart.
David James Casey, 51, of 51/2 Leach St., Salem, was arrested at 7:50 p.m. on Leach Street by officers Kathleen Rocheville and Daniel Tucker on two counts of domestic assault and battery and intimidation of a witness.
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