Thursday, Nov 13

Um, WBSM presents the very Richard show streaming live on WBSM.com and the WBSM app call five Oh eight nine nine six Oh five hundred text us using app chat on the WBSM app. Now the Barry Richard show and welcome back to the program. One of seven on a cloudy gray Thursday afternoon. You know, yesterday about this time I was complaining about the cloudy gray sky and then the sun came out. So maybe the same thing will happen today. Do you think? Let's hope. Right. Um, so yeah, here we are. Mid November, middle of November. Can you believe that? It just flies, doesn't it? When you when you're not paying attention. I was out for my walk this morning and it was a little chilly and I'm singing to myself. Wasn't it just yesterday that I was walking down the same path and all the birds were singing and everything was green and I was sweating my butt off and now here I am freezing. So, um, you know, I think after all of these years I have finally decided that New England is the place that I'm going to spend the rest of my life. I have wanted to go to you name it. You have Key West, uh, you know, the, uh, the Caribbean, Arizona, all these different places that would be cool to live in and to retire in. And, you know, the more I think about it, the more I travel is, it is amazing what we have right here in New England. So, um, this may be the place. So I guess I got to get used to, I've even told my wife, look, I would move to a snowy climate in New England. And she said, really? I never imagined I'd hear you. I don't mind snow. If you live in a place where snow is managed, people know how to manage. They used to snow. They don't roll their cars over. They don't. And it's, yeah. When I lived in Burlington, Vermont for a few years, and I lived up in even further North than that for a while, I lived up in Highgate Springs and I lived in the Swanton area, got a lot of snow and it was cold as an SOB. No question about it. But you know, the thing about the snow is they know how to deal with it up there. So you're never stuck. When I lived in Burlington, um, big snow storm, you go out and do your shopping because they would plow the sidewalks and they would plow the streets. They don't want anybody that was up there to, uh, you know, go skating or ice fishing or skiing nearby. They didn't want people trapped in their hotels or stuck and not be able to move. Plus they're used to it. They get a lot of it. Around here you get three inches of snow in the entire, uh, all you got to do is get a forecast of snow and school gets canceled, right? So if I could live in a place where the snow was managed, um, I wouldn't mind it too much because it is pretty, right? Anyway, I don't know how you feel about that. But before the break, I was talking about the kind of a carryover from yesterday. We're talking about the airport and what to do with the airport. How many more years do we fantasize that that airport is going to turn into some big transportation hub and make us all kind of money? You know, I've been saying it for years. I think maybe the time has come to pull the plug on the airport and do some developing over there, housing and some small business opportunities and so on and so forth. We lost so much of that during urban renewal. If you're my age, you remember urban renewal. If you are even 10 minutes younger than me, you probably don't remember urban renewal. You probably don't remember, you know, the Weld Square area and what route 18 is right now. They went all the way down to the south end. The thousands of structures that were torn down homes, businesses and so on and so forth. And, you know, it just we lost so many great neighborhoods and so much of the character of our city. When 195 went through and then route 18 went through, we have an opportunity to bring back some neighborhoods or build some new neighborhoods up around the in the airport. And the money that would come in through property taxes and other things, I mean, I think would be fabulous. And why I brought it back up again today is because there was a piece, I noticed it last night and I was talking about it a couple of minutes ago, that was reported by Boston Real Estate Times that the Fieldstone Marketplace in New Bedford up on Kings Highway, after all of these years of just kind of flipping and flopping around, has been sold for 12.2 million dollars. That happens to be the marketplace that houses the new restaurant supply store. Also, Ollie's is in there, Dollar Tree. But there's a lot of land there. And under the MBTA Act, we have to build a lot of housing, apartment housing, just, you know, for people, low income, some market rate and so on and so forth. We have to do that within so many feet of the rail station on Church Street. And that's the law. So this will be perfect. And I think, you know, for years that property has been just kind of languishing there. Nobody's done anything about it. I know many of you have called in and said, why don't they do something with that land? Why doesn't the administration do something with that land? Well, the administration doesn't own that land. It's private property and the owners just kind of sat on it, waiting for the value to increase, waiting to see if that train was going to come through and what it might be worth. And apparently it's worth a lot, 12.2 million dollars. And so we're gonna see what's gonna happen there. My guess is we're gonna see a considerable amount of housing and probably some more real estate, some more retail open on that spot. Now, my guess would be that Ollie's and the restaurant supply store are gonna stay where they are. But who knows? They may get the boot, too. So a lot of interesting things happening in our city, and we'll just see where it takes us. 508-996-0500. Thanks for hanging on. You're up next on WBSM. Hi, Gary. Hi. I don't agree with you about the airport. Okay. You know, about 30 years ago, they put the foreign trade zone in. You know, that's just been left there doing nothing. Yep. It's got roads, it's got electric, it's got everything. And nothing's been done. So anyway, years ago, I was importing product from Canada, and the deal was that if you could go through them, the foreign trade zone, you wouldn't have to pay any tariffs or duties, whatever you want to call it. So I thought that was a good deal, but guess what? All they did was give me the runaround. Yeah, I mean, it was never taken advantage of. No. Yeah, and again, I just mentioned I lived up in Vermont. I lived up right near the border, and that was a foreign trade zone. And it was amazing the amount of revenue that went through that area as a result. How come they don't promote this? Well, I don't... because there's nothing really to promote. How do you get... first of all, it's out in the middle of nowhere over there, and how many people come in through that airport? It's not like you have a lot of people that are going to come in and buy, you know, tax-free Rolexes or, you know, things like that, you know, because you just don't have people landing at the airport. So I mean, I don't know whether I asked yesterday one of the former members of the the Airport Commission if we take the airport down, do we lose that foreign trade zone status, and he wasn't sure. But I mean, you know, I think there comes a point where we have to say, okay, enough is enough, you know, and it's time to move on. I mean, we may be just breaking even or making a small profit at that airport, but think of the amount of money that we can make through property taxes if we would put housing there. Oh my, you know, I mean, there must be thousands of acres, right? Oh my god, I don't know exactly how many acres, but there's a lot. You can stand there and you just, you know, put your hand up over your eyes and you can look all the way down and there's a lot, a lot of space. You can fit hundreds of houses in there. Yeah, the north section was the cow farm when I was a kid, and they used to go right through the airport to Old Plainville Road until they built New Plainville. Hmm. So I go back quite a bit. Yeah, back before 140 was in there. Yeah. Yeah, I remember that too. I remember I had my aunt and uncle lived on that. I can't think of the name of the street that cuts right through. Tarkin Hill Road. Well, it's Tarkin Hill Road, but there's a street off of Tarkin Hill that went right alongside of where Delcan is and... Yeah, I know that's what I'm talking about. I looked at the sign yesterday. Okay, so that side street there is Tarkin Hill Road also? That's what the sign said. Okay, but yeah, I can remember my aunt and uncle lived down that road and we used to go visit them, and that connected right up to behind the airport before 140. Yeah, another highway that divided our city. We've got between 140 and 195 and 18, and I'm not as old as you are. I know you've told me, I think you, I believe, are 88, right? You said? Yeah, you got a good memory. Well, I'm 67, so I'm not as old as you are, but I still remember before all three of those highways. Do you remember Furtado's Dairy? That I don't remember, no. Yeah, you know where the tank is? Yeah. And there's some beautiful apartment houses over there. Okay. It was there, and what a dairy that was. They were so busy, you know, so clean. It's unbelievable. A lot of people used to just get their milk and cream and everything else from them because it was such a neat place. Wow. I do remember when they used to deliver the milk to your house in the cream and all that. You had your little milk box, right, your little metal milk box by your back door, and the milkman would come. Can you imagine doing that today? My god, people would be stealing it, and they'd be, you know, painting graffiti all over your milk box, and okay, you couldn't do those kind of things anymore like you used to do. When I was about 17, I got a job working at Bradley's Creamery. Okay. Remember that? No. Going to Lincoln Park. Going towards Lincoln Park. Okay. Yeah, that was all farmland out that way at that time. Kind of, yeah. And my route was Fall River. All the six families and three families and everything. I'd get up to the third floor, and I had a note in the dairy box that I needed a half a pound of butter. Down the steps again, up the steps. Yeah. All right. Times have changed. Thank you, my friend. I appreciate it. 508-996-0500. Oh, definitely times have changed, and life was a lot simpler back then. It sure was, but, you know, we really, we dissected our city. Well, the federal government actually did, and the federal government told us we needed Route 195. You know, back in the 1950s, we started, you know, connecting our country, these massive highways and everything. And actually, after World War II, that's when the the planning of all of this started. And then the 50s, and the country was booming. We needed to connect ourselves from coast to coast, and we did. I mean, absolutely, we did. But, I mean, I remember as a kid, and many of you do as well, certainly that gentleman who just spoke to us, that Route 6, you mentioned Lincoln Park, Route 6 was the major thoroughfare here. You went to the Cape, you went Route 6. You went to Providence, you went Route 6. You went Fall River, you went to Route 6. And there were motels, and restaurants, and businesses all along Route 6. And there was no 195. And there, you know, certainly was no 18, and certainly was no 140. Those all came along much later. But we had neighborhoods. And when you put a highway through, you got to tear up neighborhoods. And that's exactly what they did. And it really tore the character of the city apart. And I'm glad to see that the city, and you got to give a lot of credit to the Mitchell administration. Look, John Mitchell and I don't agree on everything, but I think John Mitchell does have a vision for this city, and we've seen results. And, you know, it's so nice seeing on social media last night, the opening. And my colleague Michael Rock had a piece up on Fun 107 and WBSM about the opening of the the National Club. Remember the old National Club down the bottom of Union Street? Well, that is now a high-end Mexican restaurant, okay? Now, I can remember when you wouldn't go in to the National Club unless you were carrying a gun, a blade, and had bought, you know, had brass knuckles and a bodyguard with you. You just wouldn't go in. It was such a rough, rough spot, that whole area, and all the way down to the waterfront. You wouldn't go on to the waterfront at night. You wouldn't even go downtown alone at night back in the day, remember? That was after downtown was nice, and then they had the urban renewal, then it really hit the skids. And it was a tough, tough place to go, but now that has been. And I'm thinking here last night, I'm watching the videos of this, and, you know, from Michael Rock and my son and his wife did a video as well that they posted on social media about the new National Club restaurant. They kept the name, the National Club. It's the National Club something, something upscale Mexican restaurant. But it's all due to investment, and there are so many good restaurants in town. My in-laws, who I often tell you were in their mid-90s, and they lived right outside of Providence, and they always tell us, we're gonna pick them up to take them out to dinner, and it's like, where do you want to go? Well, let's go down your way, because there are so many good restaurants in New Bedford, and we don't have that around here. And it's true, they certainly don't have it in Pawtucket anyway, but where they live. But so many new restaurants and so many opportunities, and it's just, it's nice to see the city moving forward. All right, I've got to take a break. 508-996-0500 is our number one. We'll come back after this. Back to Barry Richard on WBSM. Call 508-996-0500. Hi, 127 on a Thursday afternoon. 508-996-0500. Just happened to look up, I told you earlier, we had a 24% chance of a shower this afternoon. Well, here you go. If you bet on it, you won some money, right? It's got a little shower activity going on right now. It doesn't look like it's a whole lot, but you can see some drops coming down, and the wipers on the windshields. And it's probably not happening region-wide. It's one of those things where, you know, you get a shower here, and a shower there, or maybe if you're foreign, then you might get a snowflake. My friends up in Vermont, they've had, it seems like snow, snow, snow, not a ton of it, but in New York, too, upstate New York, they've had snow, so. It does snow in November. We usually don't get a whole lot. I remember, I'm gonna guess on the year, let's see if I can figure out the year. It was probably about 1990, Thanksgiving of 1990, maybe, that we had a big snowstorm on Thanksgiving. I remember I was living in Providence at the time, and I had to drive to New Bedford for Thanksgiving dinner. First of all, I had to work. I was working at a radio station in Providence at the time, and had to work, and had to go outside. I was all dressed up, not all dressed up, but I had my nice clothes on to go to my aunt's house for Thanksgiving dinner. My parents were going to be there, and a bunch of other people were going to be there for Thanksgiving dinner, and so I dressed up kind of nice, and so I had to go outside behind the radio station and shovel out the satellite dish. Back then, everybody had satellite dishes, and when you get a lot of snow in a satellite dish, it interrupts the signal, so I was elected to go out and shovel out the satellite dish, and so that was the first bit of fun, and then the second bit of fun was having to drive from Providence to New Bedford in a lot of snow, and it was a good, it was a good snowfall. Maybe, maybe you remember that. The Thanksgiving snowstorm had to be, I want to say, 1990, might have been 89, might have been 1990, somewhere in there, and it was a measurable snow. It was pretty, pretty good, and so by the time I got to New Bedford, the only people that could make it to dinner were my parents and my aunt, who was hosting the dinner, so it was a very, very small Thanksgiving dinner, but I made it anyway, so at the point of that whole story is it does snow on Thanksgiving, and we do get snow in November, too. At least we used to. We haven't, we haven't had much snow in the past years, but maybe this will be the year that it makes its return, right? So I mentioned in the first hour talking with Holly, University of Massachusetts Amherst WCVB poll, and one of the things the pollsters looked at was the, what has become known as the migrant crisis, or the shelter crisis in Massachusetts, and it's a piece I've got up on WBSM.com. If you want to take a look at it, weigh in. Facebook, it's also on our Facebook page. I'd appreciate it. I always love reading your clever little remarks that you leave. Always fun, and what it says is that, well, what the poll asked participants was this question, what do you, who do you believe is most responsible for the decrease in the number of families in the state's shelter system? Now, we all know that the overwhelming majority of families in the state shelter system were illegal immigrants, right? They were invited by Pied Piper, Maura Healy, who went down to Tijuana, remember that, 2019? I'm here in Tijuana, and interestingly enough, the plurality in the poll, 32%, say that President Trump is most responsible for the decrease in the number of families in the Massachusetts state shelter system, and I get that because, you know, certainly Trump closed the border, so there were fewer people coming up here, so he gets, you know, he gets some kudos for that, right? He gets some props for that. 27% credit Healy. So, essentially, you can say that they're both correct, right, Trump, because of his action on closing the border, and obviously going around rounding up criminal illegal aliens and shipping them to hell out of here. We had thousands of them hauled out of Massachusetts, but also you can say Healy. That answer is correct, too, because Healy moved the illegal immigrants from the shelter system and into the home base program, and found apartments for these people that you pay for. Thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars, and all of the benefits and the, you know, the bells and whistles that go along with that, so you pay for that. So, Maura Healy didn't exactly solve the crisis, but she did find housing outside of the shelter system for many, many thousands of illegal aliens. So, again, that the answer is is both correct, Trump and Maura Healy, but I think I have to go along with those who say Trump because he closed the border and then sent Dyson to round everybody up and get him the hell out of here. What's interesting, though, credit for the decline in families residing in state-funded shelters was also given to the Massachusetts legislature. That does nothing about anything, ever. They got 19%. So, Trump got 32%, Maura Healy got 27%, and the legislature got 19%. The migrants themselves got 13%. I'm not quite sure what to make of that. We know that there has been a steady flow of migrants. New Bedford Light has openly wept about this, self-deporting, right? We know that there have been illegal immigrants self-deporting, and so there's that. But 13% of respondents say that the migrants are most responsible for resolving the crisis in the family shelter system. I don't think enough have self-deported, though, to make that, and they didn't just all of a sudden pop out of the shelters and get jobs and find apartments. They may have been given apartments by Maura Healy at your expense, by the way, because you know that apartment that you liked over there, that you wanted for you, that was right within your budget? Uh-uh. State grabbed it up, snatched it up, took it away from you. So you are competing against Maura Healy. When you go to vote, you know, you may be one of these liberal hey-hey, ho-ho people and all that. Maura Healy's just wonderful and all this kind of stuff, but think about it. If you are struggling in Massachusetts and you can't find an apartment that you can afford, you got to blame, don't blame Donald Trump. It's not his fault. You got to blame Maura Healy. I mean, not only has she governed over the most disastrous housing crisis in the state, but she snatched up available apartments for the Home Base program to put illegals. She gave preference to illegal immigrants. And you know what happens too is that if you have an apartment building or you have an apartment that's available and the government comes in and looks at the apartment and you go in and look at the apartment, well you know damn well the landlord is going to give it to the government, right? Because you can charge the government anything. You can charge them whatever you want for that apartment. And that's what's happened and that's why so many people in Massachusetts are struggling to find affordable apartments. Because you are competing against not only illegal immigrants, but you are competing against your own governor, Maura Healy, who's picking winners and losers. Guess who the winners are and guess who the losers are. So I thought it was kind of interesting though that 32% of respondents say President Trump has done more to end the shelter crisis and Maura Healy gets 27%. So that was pretty fascinating when actually they both do share responsibility for at least getting people out of the shelters. Trump went so far as to get him the hell out of the country, Maura Healy just put him in apartments, that's all. You know speaking about moving, I've got another piece that's up today too about the millionaire tax. And the millionaire tax it's always been a very fascinating thing to me. It's class warfare, dirty bastards, make them pay more. It's an easy way to get people fighting against each other, right? It's class warfare. It's convinced the poor people and the working-class people that life is so miserable for them in Massachusetts because, well, the rich people are not paying their fair share. They're not paying their fair share. Raise taxes on the wealthy because they're not paying their fair share, which is the biggest line of crap. But people buy it, you buy it. If you're struggling, you buy it, right? Oh man, I mean look at your tax bill, right? And look at your utility bill and everything else, right? And if you're struggling, of course the rich are not paying. Look, they're rich, they're out there having fun and you're stuck in the house because you can't afford to go anywhere because your burden is so high. Tax the bastards, raise their taxes. See, that was a pretty easy sell. The government turned citizen against citizen and now we sit and wait and hold our breath to see how many people the millionaire's tax has driven away from Massachusetts. And you say, well good, you know, let him go to Florida, let him go somewhere else. You know what? The millionaire, so-called millionaires, these are the people that invest in the economy, these are the people that create the jobs, these are the people who build the hospitals, these are the people that sponsor your kids little league teams and so on and so forth. And you say, well they're being replaced. Look, the population numbers were actually up. Yeah, for every millionaire that leaves, you get two illegal immigrants that come in. Now the illegal immigrants aren't sponsoring your kids baseball league and they're not building hospitals and they're not they are taking from you. So your burden is going up, your burden is increasing. Meanwhile, the people who invest in your society, the people that keep order, that keep the chaos down to a roar, are leaving and they're taking your jobs. So right now we had a, actually had a, I don't want to say a convention, but it was a gathering, it was a panel discussion up on Beacon Hill. Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, the administration and finance secretary are discussing whether or not the millionaire's tax is hurting us. Are people leaving because of the millionaire's tax? Essentially, they're saying we don't know yet. It's too soon to say. We don't have enough data. But they do know that the millionaire's tax has brought in 2.46 billion dollars in the first year. That's wonderful. So you're taking 2.46 billion dollars in the first year and you drive everybody out. What are you gonna take out of the second year? My guess would be less, right? Oh, by the way, New York and New Jersey losing hundreds of billions of dollars, losing hundreds of billions of resident income, as folks are fleeing to lower tax states. Getting the hell out of New Jersey. You know, they just took a vote in Florida to eliminate all property taxes. If you are listening to me right now and you own a home and you're freaking out about property taxes going up and up and up, Florida just eliminated, statewide just eliminated. Just passed a law, state law, that says you can't have property taxes in this state. Isn't it funny how they managed to make it, right, without property taxes? And you have states without income tax and you have states without sales tax. How do they make it? Here in Massachusetts, they are pushing a tax on your excise tax. More healing. Wants to tax your candy. Wants to tax Nana's prescriptions. Monica Tibbetts not. Remember she wanted to put tolls, more tolls. And we already have property tax and sales tax and income tax. Wow. 508-996-0500. You're up next on WBSM. Thanks for hanging on. Good afternoon, Barry. How you doing? Good, how are you? Good, Barry. You know, this whole, if we talk, the problem is the politicians. This is why we have this problem. And let's, you touched a little bit about the shutdown and pitting people against each other, and you're absolutely, like, correct. I'll give you a perfect example. I did a deep dive, okay? Did some research on the Wicked Witch of the West, Nancy Pelosi. Do you want to hear some numbers? Because words are talk. I heard a great saying, words are talk, numbers scream. Let's talk about Nancy Pelosi's finances. When she got into Congress, Barry, in 1987, she was worth $785,000, her and her husband. 37 years later, she's leaving Congress worth $133 million. Okay, just in her thoughts, do you know, Barry, I want her financial advisor. Do you know, in the stock market, you know what was her rate of return? Are you sitting down? You want her rate of return in her investments? What did you get? I'll give you the exact number, 16,930%. Okay, okay. And out of that, her total worth, supposedly, is anywhere from 240 to 280 million. That's what we know. Not the money that's probably in the Grand Caymans and the money probably in Switzerland that's hidden away for generational wealth. That's the problem, Barry, right there, insider trading. And do you know how she kept everybody this whole time? She bought them off, Barry, with insider trading, all of them, both sides. That's the problem, Barry. I'll give you, here's the information. Here's who you bet on today. She's like a bookie up there on, well, they just introduced the legislation. They've been talking about it for a while. And they're actually calling it the Nancy Pelosi insider trading bill that would forbid members of Congress from, you remember when Trump ran for president, right? Not just Trump, but he had to divest of all of his interest in this, that, and the other thing. Dick Cheney, remember Dick Cheney with Halliburton, right? Oh, you gotta divest in it. Why is it that Nancy Pelosi gets to take home all that information and then buy stocks? Explain to me why Martha Stewart went to prison for like 14 to 18 months for an insider trading deal worth less than 200,000. Less than that, she went to prison, okay? Yep. This makes you wanna vomit, okay? And I'll tell you right now, this is bull. January 31st, the whole pony show is gonna start all over again because it's Thanksgiving break. Then they're gonna come back for about maybe two or three weeks. They'll have a long Christmas break and then they're gonna come back and it's gonna be maybe nine days left before another shutdown. They're gonna have the countdown on CNN and The Watch and Fox. They'll have all the countdowns, countdown to shutdown, all that bull. It's gonna start over again. And they're gonna start it again. And people are gonna suffer. The only way this is gonna correct itself, that's why I'm very pessimistic it's not. You need a constitutional convention. You need term limits, okay? Two terms for everybody, from Congress, from all the way down to the dog catcher. Well, let me just say this, folks. I gotta hit a break here. Let me just say this. I'm starting to feel a very slight tinge of optimism. We are seeing a number of people that, well, first of all, we saw the members of the House, six members of the House Democrats who voted with the Republicans to open the government. Eight members of the Senate that shifted and voted with the Republicans. But we're also seeing a huge number of people that are retiring from Congress. And yeah, I wish our local folks would take the hint and do the same thing. I think we're seeing a natural progression. Now, unfortunately, the voters wouldn't do the job. So some of these folks are having to do it themselves. Now, I don't know what this is gonna mean overall, but I hope it draws some new blood in. And I hope it draws some better candidates and some better elected officials that will do the people's bidding, as opposed to the same old corrupt people that stay around there for decades and decades and decades. We'll have to see what happens. Gotta get the break. We'll come right back. Back to Barry Richard on WBSM. Call 508-996-0500. There she was, just a-walkin' down the street singin'. Do what diddy diddy dum diddy do. Tappin' her fingers and shufflin' her feet singin'. Do what diddy diddy dum diddy do. She looked good. Looked good. She looked fine. Looked fine. All right, 151 on a Thursday afternoon. Still a little bit of spotty drizzle going on out there. 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That ought to be fun. 508-996-0500. We're coming right back. Beer in Mexico. That's Kenny Chesney. Kenny Chesney's new book. His only book, as far as I know, that he's ever written, Heart Life Music, just out, premiered at number one in the New York Times bestseller list. It's a really good book. If you're a Chesney fan, if you're a fan of country music, or music in general, and I've had an interesting ride in my career. I did a lot of music radio, too, and I got to see the inside of the industry to some degree, and it's fascinating. To watch somebody go through the process of trying to climb the ladder through the music industry, as you do with this book that Chesney wrote, it's really fascinating. It's a good book. I thought it was a good read, but you've got to like Chesney in order to care. It's available, Heart Life Music. I read it in two days. I read the whole book in two days. Number one. Chesney, just what, about two, three weeks ago, was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He's having a good run of it right now. All right. We've got a break for the news. 508-996-0500 is the number. We've got ABC, followed by WBSN News, and then the ABC Six Weather Center forecast. No more.