Paul Levy, president and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is one of the Boston area’s great managers and leaders of the past generation. So I’m not surprised — as Boston Globe columnist Kevin Cullen reports — that he earned a standing ovation when he suggested that high-paid people at the hospital sacrifice in order to save low-paid jobs.
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Wish Deval Patrick did the same thing. But, he just have Marian Walsh a $175,000 hack job
Growing up in Quincy in the 80’s, when tampons, syringes and diapers were the more pleasant of floatables at the beach, I supported Republican Mayor Frank McCauley’s lawsuit against the MDC. The suit would eventually lead to the creation of the MWRA and the clean-up of the harbor.I can recall a young MWRA Executive Director Paul Levy being a target of ridicule, sitting through community meetings as rates rose through the roof and the Quincy shipyard was designated as the site of the NIMBY sludge-to-fertilizer plant, still running flawlessly today.While I guess that Levy and I don’t agree on everything politically, I tip my cap to him for enduring what he did in those days, at a time when he needed a police escort to his car as people threatened his life. I saw Paul with a Beth Israel group at a Red Sox game last year and I wanted to introduce myself and thank him, then Maria Stephanos walked by and I got distracted. Paul, thank you for our pristine harbor and our wonderful neighbor at the shipyard that nobody even realizes is a sludge plant. Consider putting your name on the ballot, sir.
Thanks very much, O-FISH-L.And thanks to you, Dan, too, but what do you mean by the “past generation”?
Paul: Hah! Brain cramp.