" Right now costs are not sustainable. I would feel like I was not doing my job if we did not pursue this. "
Peabody Mayor Ted Bettencourt defending his effort to get the city to adopt a state law giving him greater flexibility in negotiating health benefits with city unions
" If you are unconscious, who's filling out that form for you? "
Rep. Steven Walsh, D-Lynn, a key player in the effort to contain health costs here in the Bay State, on the need to make everyone's medical records instantly available by computer. He spoke to the North Shore Chamber of Commerce in Salem Wednesday.
" Stephanie was too good a person to have died and sacrificed everything for nothing. "
Kimberley Flynn at vigil in Peabody this week marking the one-year anniversary of daughter Stephanie Moulton's murder. Flynn is campaigning for legislation to protect people like her daughter, who police say was killed by a resident of the Revere group home where she worked.
" Democrats suffer from a superhero syndrome. Like someone will fly into the state that we can anoint to save us from Scott Brown. "
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Marisa DeFranco speaking at Salem State University this week. She is one of the few candidates still in the race for the nomination, which others have conceded to Elizabeth Warren.
SClB" I do think that if you are going to put away the most heinous criminals, you also have to look at what we're doing with nonviolent offenders. "
State Rep. Brad Hill, R-Ipswich, on how those favoring the "three strikes" bill for violent offenders might be willing to consider reducing the mandatory minimum sentences for those found guilty of certain nonviolent offenses such as drug-dealing.
" What hurts the most about Super Bowl XLVI is not the how, the why or the where to begin. It's this truth: Nobody's perfect. Not even Tom Brady. "
Salem News sports columnist Matt Williams on the Patriots' loss to the New York Giants last Sunday
" He'll say it's the players and it is, but if not for him, Salem State is not on the map. "
Andrew O'Neill on his father, Bill, longtime hockey coach at Salem State University, who after the team beat UMass Dartmouth Thursday was one victory away from his 500th career win.
" In Lynn, the business is there, but there is no development of the presence of the arts. "
Jewelry-maker Jesse Chamberlain on his move from downtown Lynn to a studio on Rantoul Street in Beverly
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