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An Elder for the Elder Community and Community at large, who takes the public interest seriously Joe Viglione for Ward 3 Councilor?

  An Elder for the Elder Community and Community at large, who takes the public interest seriously Joe Viglione for Ward 3 Councilor? When elder services asked me to perform piano, for free, I stepped up and played music in the community room at Whittier Drive ...one woman saying "It sounds like I'm on a cruise."  I did my best to play the music that the community would appreciate, and add a pleasant, new dimension to the public space. Probably the year before Mr Anthony DiPierro was born I fought the now Comcast (Continental Cablevision, Media One and later AT & T, powerful enemies) for cable TV rights for Stoneham and Woburn.  The headline of the paper screamed MAYOR DEVER PUTS VIGLIONE BACK ON THE AIR.    TV3 Medford - which I decided to clean up - vowed they would not see that kinda headline in the Medford papers when I was investigating them.  One board member telling the city council "I'll be damned if you take TV 3 away from us."   I fo...

Joe Viglione for Ward 3 Councilor??? Just When I Thought I Was Out, They Pull Me Back In!

   Just When I Thought I Was Out, They Pull Me Back In! https://youtu.be/UneS2Uwc6xw When in Medford, Joe Viglione fought the powers that be starting with removing TV 3 Medford, the public access station that was private access TV and stomped on First Amendment rights, ripping free speech from the community. Some of the police force, (the chief later fined by the ethics commission  https://www.mass.gov/news/former-medford-police-chief-leo-sacco-pays-9000-civil-penalty-for-violating-conflict-of-interest-law ) were among the most Brady-listed in Middlesex County.    My newsletter from Medford has  3,544,550 hits as of today, the L'Italien Report, which the city fought me tooth and nail - and I prevailed - was #1 on the blog for months and months and months.  It was a report on police misconduct. I came to Everett wanting to stay out of politics.  But like Michael Corleone,   Just When I Thought I Was Out, They Pull Me Back In! Protection o...