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Last week, I saw Uncle Joe, an owner of the commercial property next to mine, sitting in his truck and decided I would ask him about the upside-down couch sitting in his back lot, up against the fence between our properties. The couch was potential harborage for rats, I told him. “Can you move it?” […]
September 13, 2012
What if you could have a hand in crafting policy for the city? What areas would you focus on? How would you achieve your goals? Attorney Ron Mendes, board member of the Greater Lynn Chamber of Commerce, drafted a new trash ordinance for the city of Lynn. He submitted to the City Council about a month […]
August 19, 2012
Yessir, trouble right here in Ocean City. Trash trouble. What will the good citizens of Lynn do to keep this ball of trash rolling? Demand more from their city government? You bet! Only we want this ball to get smaller. There’s a special meeting of the Ordinance Committee on Tuesday, August 21 at 6:30 PM in […]
August 1, 2012
Every Wednesday morning for the past few weeks, on the way to the train station and in the aftermath of what the Item has dubbed the ticketing blitz, I’ve been taking pictures of the trash left out for collection. For the past two weeks, it looked like this: I posted last week’s picture on the Lynnside […]
June 28, 2012
Good landlords do what Maria Rodriguez and Felix Espinosa did at 68 Essex St. Bad landlords on the other hand, like KJ Realty Trust of Saugus (look it up on Patriot Properties), which owns the commercial lot next to mine, leave their properties looking like this, even after repeated attempts by the city to get […]
June 26, 2012
Last Monday, this driveway was a mess, the poster child for neighborhood blight, a perfect storm of overflowing refuse. I’m kicking myself in the pants for not taking a before picture. So this is what a story in the Lynn Item can do for you. According to my neighbor Steve, who lives across from this […]
June 25, 2011
Seriously considering the hamster for lunch, its crate lined with the Daily Item, my bulging eyes glanced upon a most cockamamie headline: New Ordinance: Lynn Residents Get Fewer Trash Barrels. As i’ll put just about anything in my mouth and swallow it whole, i wanted to know if this new law would curtail my scavenging […]
August 12, 2010
Obligatory joke about the rats in city hall. I’m glad I got that out of the way! For the past week, I have not seen a rat, nor have I seen evidence of rats coming and going. So I took this opportunity to clean the corner of my backyard where I first saw them. This […]
August 8, 2010
August 6, 4:00 PM. If Shakespeare could coin new words, why can’t I? Deratification–the process of making a habitat unappealing–some would say, downright hostile– to members of the genus rattus. Which is what is now going on next door in the backlot of Pizza Lovers. There’s a cause and effect relationship at work here that delights […]
July 23, 2010
This shows you how bad it can get. While Lynn doesn’t come close even on its worst days, myself and others still fume about the level of trash in our fair city. For me, it depends on what kind of day I’m having. Somedays I’m just too tired to care. “We live in a city, […]
The Lynn-side Edition 
September 27, 2012
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