If Lowell is your home, this is your place

LOOK at the fine print on that $17.5 million announcement, it wasn't a permanent adjustment to the unfair funding formula, it was one-time money from a supplemental budget. Supplemental earmarks are the ultimate political illusion and temporary by definition. It buys great headlines today, but it leaves the city and town managers completely empty-handed next year! Because relying on unpredictable supplemental packages while leaving permanent, structural reforms like House Bill 5131 dead in committee is the definition of smoke and mirrors! We don't just need temporary band-aids passed outside the standard budget cycle, we need the statutory tools that our local city and town managers were begging for. Please, STOP feeding us smoke and mirrors. The hardworking taxpayers need representation that will advocate and fight for real structural relief!