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Tag Archives: Peter Picknelly

Springfield City Council DCAMM

DCAMM and Springfield Discuss Their Long-term Relationship with the Courthouse…

SPRINGFIELD—Residents of the city and state officials agree something must replace the aging and possibly dangerous Hampden County Courthouse. Yet, they aligned on little else during a nearly two-hour meeting at City Hall. Ward 7 Councilor Timothy Allen, who chairs the City Council’s Finance Committee, convened the meeting to provide residents with another opportunity to hear from state officials and provide feedback.

The Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance (DCAMM) is moving forward with a new courthouse secured via a lease.

Hampden Superior Court

For Springfield Courthouse, Is All DCAMM Saying Is Give Lease a Chance…?

Earlier this month, a state agency with an officious name, the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance (DCAMM), held two public hearings about the replacing the Hampden County Courthouse. These were not about where the state might put the now-styled Springfield Regional Justice Center, which would replace the deteriorating, musty and ostensibly unsafe Brutalist incumbent.

Springfield Race is Over, but the Campaign Finance Refs Still Reviewing the Tape…

UPDATED 1/11/24 11:41AM for additional information:

The mayoral race in Springfield may be long over and the victors have taken the oath. That, however, does not mean the work of campaign finance regulators have finished their work. Rather, several issues with Mayor Domenic Sarno’s campaign records had remained outstanding per auditors with the Massachusetts Office of Campaign & Political Finance.

Springfield City Hall

The Springfield Mayoral Money Race near the Home Stretch…

As the Springfield mayoral race lumbered into October, the campaign cash dash was barely at a trot. Piles of money and late heat in the campaign propelled at-large Councilor Justin Hurst and Mayor Domenic Sarno past the September 12 preliminary. Yet, neither showed a surge of activity many had expected ahead of the final confrontation on November 7.

Running Low Ridership Figures out of Town on a Rail…

UPDATED 2/13/20 8:33AM: To identify one of the speakers based on another media report. SPRINGFIELD—On Wednesday night, supporters of added rail service between Western and Eastern Massachusetts packed a room at the UMass Center in downtown for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation first public hearing

Analysis: Seuss (and a City) at the Crossroads…

If a misinformed Cantabrigian librarian had not done enough to catapult Springfield into the national spotlight, surely the eye-rolling imbroglio at the Dr. Seuss museum has launched the city further into controversy.  Like clockwork, Mayor Domenic Sarno jumped feet first into the situation, prolonging the