Norwood

Lynch plays his cards close to the vest in what seems like a defensive style of politics. It certainly is not leadership-driven.

Take his process on the health care bill debate last summer. From March through August we heard Rep.Lynch say he didn't know how he'd vote on the bill. At the same time, he did not take a leadership role in shaping it. In August at Curry, Rep. Lynch held a town hall meeting and said he had read the bill but still didn't know how he was going to vote. Once again, his constituents could not get a bead on where he stood.

Perhaps even more stunningly at that town hall meeting, Rep. Lynch was given the chance to answer a question about death panels (after all he had read the bill) and refudiate (sic) ;-) the meme that right wing Republican liars and Fox News had made popular. Lynch equivocated! He would not take a stand!

Won't take on Mike Rush for Marian Walsh's Suffolk and Norfolk state-senate seat, the Jamaica Plain Gazette reports.

A neighbor of Ernie Boch, Jr. yesterday filed a federal lawsuit against him, alleging three years of ongoing renovations and expansion at the Boch estate in Norwood have sent the man into depression and given him asthma.

The suit, filed in US District Court in Boston by Glenn Arrigo and his wife Elise, alleges that near constant noise from construction and a large generator, spotlights shining onto their property and the destruction of large trees along the property line have helped deprive the couple of their Fourth, Fifth and Fifteenth Amendments and that Boch is attempting to coerce them into selling him their property so he can expand his manse even more.

Read the complaint.

It will almost be a shame when the Brookline DPW empties the overflowing recycling can Tom O'Keefe photographed in Coolidge Corner, because all the excess plastic cups are rather artfully arranged on it right now.

Meanwhile, Conqy tweets:

There's a big brass band playing the chicken dance in the middle of norwood depot. I'm not entirely sure what's going on.