New Bedford Fire Watch: “City Budgeted $800K to Pay Firefighters Not to Work While Claiming No Money to Keep Engine 9 Open”

Peter Bedford: Claiming should never be easier than climbing

I know what welfare can do for a family in need, because it did it for mine. That is exactly why I will not stand by while it is stretched into something it was never meant to be.

New Bedford Fire Watch: “City Budgeted $800K to Pay Firefighters Not to Work While Claiming No Money to Keep Engine 9 Open”

NEW BEDFORD — A local advocacy page is drawing attention to a large increase in the city’s budgeted unemployment compensation costs in the FY2027 budget, arguin…