"A parking deal for the chosen ones; City-owned space used by the well connected" by Kate Augusto and Matt Collette, Globe Correspondents | December 15, 2008
For more than a generation, it has been perhaps Boston's most covert bargain, a city-owned parking lot in the North End where the lucky, the affluent, and the politically connected had assigned parking for just $55 a month - a rate that went unchanged for 26 years.
George K. Regan Jr., press secretary to Kevin H. White, former mayor, arranged for two spaces that he kept for more than 20 years. House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi, who lives nearby, also has a spot. So does his former wife, according to spotty records kept by the Boston Redevelopment Authority, which owns the lot.
Since the lot opened in 1976, thousands of other North End residents have competed for limited on-street parking, or paid rates that approach $500 a month in some private garages....
Being a LYING LOOTER sucking off the state teat PAYS, doesn't it?
BRA records - or the lack of them - suggest that the agency effectively lost track of the lot starting in 1982.... the agency has no records for the lot between 1982 and last July. During all of those years, the BRA received token monthly payments. Most of the proceeds went to an outside management company....
So WHO STOLE the $$$$?
And WTF do they mean NO RECORDS?
Are you KIDDING ME? I'll remember that next time I'm in a pinch!
