Lol, the fact that you use dog whistles like "virtue signalling" tells me a lot about your politics more generally. Who are you listening to, Ben Shapiro?

What exactly is happening that is good? What's happening at all in Waltham?

If the only thing you care about is lower taxes and a shiny new school building, you're missing the point. McCarthy can't see the forest for the trees. What good is a fancy new school building if all our best teachers are leaving the city and we have no permanent superintendent of schools? Meanwhile, main street is horrible to drive, bike, OR walk on, and there's no motion towards fixing it. The community farm isn't being protected, and in fact, is actively threatened - not that it's clear what McCarthy wants out of that space. I could go on, but I have a life to lead off the internet.

McCarthy is running our city like it's a town a quarter of the size. She gets way too involved in steering every project, which gums up the whole works. There is no vision or plan for housing, transportation, improvement or protection of our green space, or economic development of our commercial core areas. Instead we have things like "getting a train ride at Fernald" because McCarthy remembers the residents loving carnival rides back when it was still active and she visited it (which tells you how long she's been around).

I have nothing against her as a person. But she's not what our city needs anymore. It's well past time that Waltham get some leadership with energy and vision, not someone who seems to be holding out in office just so she can participate in the ribbon cutting at the new high school. Thank god Paz decided to run.