Word: furcolo
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Despite the seeming monolithic character of Massachusetts government, its structure is basically just a colonial saltbox illogically encrusted with the bureaucratic gingerbread trappings of the 19th and 20th centuries. Even Foster Furcolo's bitterest enemies do not accuse him of the despotism for which the colonials always suspected George III's governors; and yet the Governor's Council remains, obstructing the chief executive, duplicating other posts and clogging bureaucratic channels. The counties, too, stayed on unchanged after the Revolution, and only inertia perpetuates their costly and relatively useless existence. Yet not since 1917 has a Constitutional Convention studied these antiques...
Passage of the Furcolo bill would have given the MTA a good Old Colony substitute near Codman Sq. for the extensive Bennett St. maintenance and storage facilities. Lack of such alternate facilities had proven a major stumbling block in previous negotiations between the University and the MTA trustees...
Late in the afternoon the Senate moved to table indefinitely and, in effect, to kill Governor Furcolo's bill to purchase the New Haven Railroad's Old Colony Line, Earlier, the House had passed the controversial bill by a vote...
...University's chances of purchasing the MTA Bennett St. yards took a turn for the better yesterday, when Gov. Foster Furcolo recommended that the Legislature exercise its option to take over the New Haven Railroad's Old Colony Line...
...Furcolo's action came after the Legislature had killed a bill authorizing the purchase of the South Shore line late last week. The bill had directed the Commonwealth to buy the line for $1,150,879, following the New Haven's abdication because of the great expense involved in the operation...