WBJ Talk Back from the June 20, 2011 issue
Corrupt-achusetts
Our optimism that the trial of former Speaker of the House Sal DiMasi might spark some real ethics reform did not sit well with one reader of the June 6 editorial. Read one online commentator’s somewhat cynical response below:
"Get real! How many other times have politicians in Massachusetts, Washington, etc. been found to be unethical, to have accepted bribes, etc.? And has behavior changed as the result of those prior disclosures? …To expect that this disclosure will, all of a sudden, lead to a change in overall behavior is a Pollyanna approach to the issue."
Online reader dickmorin
Debt Relief
We ran an op-ed in our May 23 issue about an effort to reform debt collection rules from Bill Bartmann, who is the owner of a debt collection business in Oklahoma called CFS II. Massachusetts is considering new regulations that would prohibit abusive collection practices. Bartmann’s support of the proposed reforms elicited this comment from an online poster:
"Bill, thanks for the information. I think we all need to learn how to treat each other better and the world would be a much sweeter place."
Online reader elisdinsb
Paper Chase
Janet Robinson, president and CEO of the New York Times Co., was in Worcester recently to speak before the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce. She reaffirmed the company’s commitment to Worcester and Boston, where it owns the Telegram & Gazette and the Globe, respectively. We asked on our LinkedIn discussion group whether Worcester would be better off with a locally owned daily, and received this response:
"These papers should be owned locally, but who can afford to buy them in this economy?"
John Covey
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