Bob Waite

3 days ago | thelocalnews.news | Bob Waite

- Advertisement -Please Support Local Advertisers by Bob WaiteI can’t recall when I first saw Buffy Sainte-Marie perform. It might have been at a 1968 Eugene McCarthy rally at Fenway Park. Or perhaps at a coffee house in Cambridge. Wherever or whenever it was, I was impressed. Not just by her voice and lyrics, but by the fact that she was Indigenous. Except she wasn’t. For years, Sainte-Marie claimed she was born on the Piapot 75 Reserve in the Qu’Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, Canada, to Cree parents.

4 days ago | thelocalnews.news | Bob Waite

- Advertisement -Please Support Local Advertisers by Bob WaiteGrowing up, we kids used to refer to the Ipswich Historical Society as the Hysterical Society. We thought it hysterically funny. I’m not sure what prompted this. It certainly wasn’t my parents — they thought Ipswich’s Mary P. Conley was a living saint, a veritable Our Lady of Preservation. And I don’t recall the phrase being uttered by anyone else’s parents.

2 weeks ago | thelocalnews.news | Bob Waite

- Advertisement -Please Support Local Advertisers by Bob WaiteThroughout my corporate life, which spanned four decades, head-hunters were a constant presence. If they weren’t hunting your head, they were trying to poach that of one of your employees. I got head-hunted three times. It was relatively painless. They even took you to dinner — or, in one instance, to a Red Sox/Blue Jays game. Once they acquired your head, they were quite attentive for six months, or sometimes a year.

3 weeks ago | thelocalnews.news | Bob Waite

- Advertisement -Please Support Local Advertisers by Bob WaiteI’m no economist. I only took three economics courses while at university: macro, micro, and economic history. So I don’t pretend to be an expert on things such as tariffs and trade. But I do know something about good jobs and ones that are so tedious that parents want to transition their kids out of them if at all possible. Jobs in the textile industry fall into that category. Ipswich once had a lot of those jobs.

3 weeks ago | thelocalnews.news | Bob Waite

- Advertisement -Please Support Local Advertisers by Bob WaiteI’m no economist. I only took three economics courses while at university: macro, micro, and economic history. So I don’t pretend to be an expert on things such as tariffs and trade. But I do know something about good jobs and ones that are so tedious that parents want to transition their kids out of them if at all possible. Jobs in the textile industry fall into that category. Ipswich once had a lot of those jobs.