Jack Spillane
Columnist and Reporter at New Bedford Light
Jack Spillane is a career journalist, working primarily as a government and political reporter, editor and columnist.
Articles
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3 weeks ago |
newbedfordlight.org | Jack Spillane
Late in the afternoon is a good time to take in the section of the near North End that is the heart of New Bedford’s Central American community. On the Avenue, folks are doing errands at the many shops and eateries that advertise themselves as catering to Guatemalan tastes. A block away, at Riverside Park, every evening the soccer field is home to four or five groups of young Latinos playing half-field around the nets.
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1 month ago |
newbedfordlight.org | Jack Spillane
Great men whose achievements were accomplished long ago sometimes do not get the recognition they deserve on their passing. This is especially so if a lot of their great work was done for little people whose stories are little known. Such is the case with John Xifaras, who died March 18, a little less than a month before his 89th birthday.
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1 month ago |
newbedfordlight.org | Jack Spillane
New Bedford Police Chief Paul Oliveira sat down with me this week to talk about the stunning accusations made about him and the city in The Boston Globe’s “Snitch City” series. The recent Spotlight Team effort, presented in a relentlessly breathless film noir style, claims that Oliveira was the worst of the worst abusers of a troubled statewide confidential informant system long used to investigate drug trafficking crimes.
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2 months ago |
newbedfordlight.org | Jack Spillane
Mayor Jon Mitchell has walked the walk in his efforts to restore the reputation of the New Bedford school system. Unlike many of his West End upper-middle-class contemporaries, Mitchell sent all three of his daughters to New Bedford High School. Mitchell’s youngest daughter, Lauren, ranked number 7 in last year’s graduating class and, like the mayor himself did, she is now attending Harvard as an undergraduate.
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2 months ago |
newbedfordlight.org | Jack Spillane
Andrew O’Leary is the first New Bedford superintendent of schools I can remember who regularly shows up at events around town wearing the school colors of red and white. There is no doubt that this Cork, Ireland, native bleeds New Bedford red and white as he enters the third year of his leadership of the system. What he really bleeds, however, is belief in urban public education.
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Maggi Kerr Peirce was South Coast’s magical storyteller - The New Bedford Light. Here is my remembrance of a grand poetic spirit. https://t.co/pBgnobu1io
Far North End neighborhood fights South Coast Renewables in all-American battle - The New Bedford Light. My latest column. https://t.co/OvJdZIk2sd
New Bedford’s Everett Hoagland recognized with American Book Award - The New Bedford Light. Check out my thoughts on Hoagland’s poetry collection The Ways. https://t.co/laOMcCnI2z