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STAFF PHOTO BY MIKE ADASKAVEG aORY? A Big Dig worker reads the Herald while on the clock yesterday. WAKEUP CALL FOR BIG DIG SNOOZE CREW Pol: Naps better nod continue By CASEY ROSS An irate congressman and outraged Big Dig overseers demanded immediate firings and stepped-up inspections of downtown work sites following a Herald investigation that found workers sleeping, reading and joyriding while collecting $49-an-hour pay- checks. “These (workers) should be fired and their supervisors should be fired, U.S. Rep, Michael Capuano (D-Somerville) said yes- terday, “This project has had problems from Day One, This is the last thing they need, and they should know that. Massachusetts Turnpike Authority offi- cials responsible for overall management of the $14.6 billion Big Dig promised a crack- down on contractors failing to police snoozing employees. Spokeswoman Mariel- len Bums said the agency is setting up a hotline so members of the public can call in their own complaints about Big Dig waste, inefficiency and sloth. A five-day Herald surveillance of work sites along Atlantic Avenue found rampant misconduct by high-paid heavy equipment operators, including napping, reading and sitting idle for hours at a time. In some cases, workers slept in full view of passing commuters whose tax dollars are paying their wages. ‘It’s shameful, Turnpike Authority Vice Chairman Jordan Levy said. “We hired Bechtel (Parsons BrinckerhofD to oversee this and they ' ve done a lousy job. I’ve been talking about this for six years now and that it ' s continuing to happen is mind-boggling. Levy and other top officials vowed to investigate work supervisors who failed to police employees on their work sites. The sites monitored by the Herald are managed by Modem Continental a cash-strapped contractor now under the managerial over- sight of Jay Cashman Inc. The workers on the sites are repairing a steam line damaged during prior construc- tion. Despite continual delays and missed deadlines on the project, little or no pro- gress was made during several days of the Herald’s surveillance. Modem Continental said yesterday it has contacted union officials and begun a for- mal investigation. A statement said: “Mod- em Continental does not and will not toler- ate this behavior. It does an injustice to all of our employees who do tremendous work every day. Capuano said controversy surrounding shoddy management and construction blunders will only cause more problems for Massachusetts on Capitol Hill, where the Big Dig is an infamous example of govern- ment waste and abuse. “I can guarantee I will get more grief in Washington, he said. Jon Carlisle of the state Executive Office of Transportation said, “This is a manage- ment issue. If workers aren ' t being directed to do the appropriate work on projects, then it boils down to a management issue.” .entral Artery dolts sleep on a pillow of your cash Don’t kill the job. Some hacks at the Pike claim to be shocked, shocked that Big Dig workers are sleeping on the job. But the pay- roll pa- triots at 10 Park don’t want to kill the job any more than the snoozing crane opera- tors, or the methadone-tak- ing truck drivers, or the state reps’ dads, or all the ex-con armored-car robbers from South Boston who’ve Howie CARR gone straight, sort of, on the Big Dig payroll. Fat Matt Amorello was so distraught when he saw the photo on the front page of the Herald yesterday that now he wants tollbooths on 1-495. Then he opened the paper and saw more sleep- ing workers and decided the state needs to toll 1-91 too. The Big Dig — look for the union label. You ' ve heard the old expression, “Your tax dol- lars at work.” Now you can see your tax dollars asleep. I’m sure the union mem- bers all had good excuses for their sloth: “I was up late last night at Trav’s time. Where does it say in the contract I got to be awake? “Does this mean it’s too late for me to go out on a slip-and-fall? “You can’t fire me — I’m a Democrat.” “But I know Sal DiMasi — I been to his house in Need- ham. “Jeez, boss, I ' m all worn out from drivin’ out Route 2 to Devens to see Cashman every day.” That would be George Cashman, the gangster and former Massport board member who used to run Teamsters Local 25 and hang out with Paul Cellucci. Cashman now resides at the federal prison at Devens — former home of Jackie Bulger. The only thing that’s real- ly surprising about this lat- est batch of $49-an-hour layabouts is that they’ve be- come so brazen they are now taking naps out in the open, in broad daylight. The pinky-rings used to have the decency to go hide some- where before they dozed off. The Massport electricians who got fired had a little shed where they snoozed through their shifts. Remember when Whitey Bulger was somehow able to secure public-sector jobs for all of his cocaine dealers . . . so they could file for disabi- lity pensions? The cops ac- tually arrested one Bulger minion while he was sleeping — on the job — at the DPW yard on Frontage Road. Whitey’s drug dealer ap- parently wanted to get a good night ' s sleep before not showing up for his other no- show public job, at the MWRA, or maybe it was the Boston Housing Authority. So this is just more busi- ness as usual at the Big Dig. I have a large matted photo- graph in my office given to me by Jim “Boo Hoo” Kera- siotes. I used to ask the for- mer Big Dig boss why they needed so many cranes when they were never used. He finally sent me the pho- tograph, with the inscrip- tion, “Why aren’t any of these cranes moving?” That was 1997. The cranes still aren’t moving. And the price tag is up to $15 billion. But hey, this is why the tolls have to go up. If those of us who p ay the tolls for an unsafe road we never use aren’t willing to come up with $49 an hour to support these slugs, they’ll have to go on welfare — as if they aren’t there already. Meanwhile, I’m sure Fat Matt is “not a happy cus- tomer,” as he once put it after an earlier scandal So, as someone said yesterday, they’ll dig up a few more streets, after which the workers and a detail cop will stare into the hole for three or four months. Then they’ll fill the trenches back in and finally rearrange the orange barrels. And after a , few. months, they’ll dig up the: same streets again. Just don ' t kill the job. Hey Fat Matt, when’s the next ribbon-cutting? WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2005 BOSTON HERALD
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BOSTON HERALD WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 5. 2005 A life filled and fulfilled in a Dorchester classroom STAFF PHOTO BY TED FITZGERALD LIFE LESSONS: Widow Susan Noonan recalls fondly the years her husband spent teach- ing — and tirelessly advocating for children — at Dorchester High. Susan Noonan tried .her host to make her husband understand the riches they shared were more than suffi- cient. “He often expressed con- cern over things he couldn’t give me, she recalled. “And 1 would tell him, ' There ' s nothing I want that we don’t have; we have it all! ' We were rich in the things that money can ' t buy, the good things, the things that really matter. A Chi- cago na- tive, the former Susan Tolf met Ed . Noonan when she came here to work in Boston’s medical com- munity. He was a Mission Hill guy whose heart’s de- sire was to be a teacher. “I think he could have done just about anything,” she said. He was very tal- ented and had wonderful people skills. But teaching was all he ever wanted to do. He was meant to teach. The day before their wed- ding in 1975 he bought the Marshfield home where Su- san still lives and where, for 30 years, she would come to know scores of kids she ' d never meet, kids whose cares and hopes he would share with her when he re- turned from classrooms in the city. “It was our main topic of conversation,” she recalled. I knew them by their names. I knew how they were doing with their marks and what they were doing with their lives. Every Satur- day when we went shopping Ed would load up on snacks, then take them to school where he’d open his class- room early, letting the kids nibble while using com- puters. He loved doing that because it got them to school on time.” Noonan taught business skills to kids at Dorchester High. A lot of his students weren’t bom in this coun- try,” Susan noted. “So he de- signed programs for them. He taught them how to man- age a checking account, how to properly use credit cards, how to pay bills, how to es- tablish a budget. One of his students helped her mother buy a house through what she learned in Ed’s class. As the years rolled by they raised two sons of their own. “Ed made sure that we went out every Saturday night,” she remembers. “A really big time was a ham- burger and a beer, then play- ing whist with friends. And that’s the point I was always trying to make — the really good stuff isn’t fancy or ex- pensive. We always had fun, right to the very end.” Noonan was 54 when leu- kemia claimed his life 10 months ago. Though she thought she knew all of the classroom stories, Susan learned even more during the days sur- rounding his wake and fu- neral through whispered thanks and notes affixed to contributions for a scholar- ship in his name. One man told me his son is now a policeman and re- called how Ed brought him to a rifle range where he learned to shoot a gun,” she marveled. Someone else said, ‘I’ll never forget the kindness he showed when my mother died.’ I met kids whose lunches he bought every day. One of his stu- dents had a chance for a summer job but didn’t have the bus fare to go; Ed paid that bus fare all summer. “Another father sent a check following his son’s graduation, telling me, ‘If it wasn ' t for Mr. Noonan, my boy wouldn’t have made it. ' “It was really overwhelm- ing. Ed loved those kids.” Susan is now getting ready for another overwhelming” moment. It ' ll take place to- morrow at 5 p.m. at the edu- cational complex that used to be known as Dorchester High. That’s when The Ed- ! ward G. Noonan Jr. Business j Academy will be formally dedicated. “When he looked back on his own education, Ed rea- lized just how much a teacher can mean to a kid, and that was the kind of teacher my husband wanted to be,” she said. “Short changed? Never. I was a teacher’s wife and nothing could have made me prouder.” Joe FITZGERALD Bush defends nominee to GOP’s doubters By TOM BAUM ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Presi- dent Bush pushed back against suggestions by some skeptical Republicans that Harriett Miers was not con- servative enough, insisting yesterday that his nominee to the Supreme Court shares his strict-constructionist views. I know her heart,” Bush told a Rose Garden news conference. “Her philosophy v on ' t change. Some commentators and activists — including Rush I imbaugh — have expressed disappointment with Bush’s selection of Miers, citing her lack of a judicial track record and complaining that Bush had passed over more promi- nent, proven conservatives. Bush suggested he would not release documents relat- ing to her work at the White House, saying it was “impor- tant that we maintain execu- live privilege, even as Dem- ocrats demanded more information on her role in ad- ministration decisions. He urged Democrats to give her a chance to explain her views of the law and Constitution at her confirmation hearing. The Democratic National Committee, meanwhile, said information was needed on Miers’ role in forming poli- cies and decisions, including U.S. treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and in Iraq. She’s a Bush loyalist, with little public record,” said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, (D- Mass.) “The president should STRICTLY SPEAKING: Bush says Miers shares his strict- constructionist views. refrain from invoking execu- tive privilege and give the American people a full and fair look at (her) record.” In welcome news to the White House, Miers won the unqualified support of one of the Senate’s top conserva- tives, Orrin Hatch, (R-Utah). “A lot of my fellow conser- vatives are concerned, but they don ' t know her as I do,” said Hatch, a former chair- man of the Judiciary Commit- tee. “She’s going to basically do what the president thinks she should and that is be a strict constructionist.” The term refers to justices who believe their role is to decide cases based on a close reading of the Constitution rather than ranging mo widely in interpretation. Bush asked the Senah act by Thanksgiving. Bay State activists scan IP r background on abortion. By LAURA CRIMALDI Advocates on both sides of the abortion issue held their fire — and their prais? — on Supreme Court nomi- nee Harriet Miers, saying they wanted to krgiw more, but gay rights supporters ex- pressed cautious optimism about her nomination. She’s been an integral member of the most anti- choice administration in modern history. The Ameri- can public deserves to know more about her judicial philo- sophy, said Melissa Kogut, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts. As president of the Texas State Bar in the early 1990s, Miers urged the national American Bar Association to put the abortion issue to a referendum. At the time, ABA held a neutral stance on the issue; which Miers supported. I would want to lmow if she knows if a child in utero is a human being from the moment of conception.” said Marie Sturgis, executive di- rector of Massachusetts Citi- zens for Life. In a statement, U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) said Miers must eXj stitutjpnal interpn. ’’Without a mean change during the x tion hearings, there is i to know how Ms. views the Constitr whether she’s a strict . structionist in the mold Justices Scalia and Thoma or whether she will protect fundamental rights and liber- ties,” Kerry said. Miers also went on the rec- ord favoring equal civil rights for gays and lesbians during her successful 1989 bid for Dallas City Council. During the campaign, Miers filled out a Lesbian Gay Coali- tion questionnaire. She an- swered Yes to the survey question, “Do you believe that gay men and lesbians should have the same civil rights as non-gay men and women? “We are pleased that it ap- pears Ms. Miers, like most Americans, believe that gays and lesbians are entitled to the equal rights under the law, said Marty Rouse, cam- paign director for the gay- rights group MassEquality. The Associated Press contributed to this report. ■w
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