How's That Budget Process Treating You, Mr. Joe? Are You Looking Forward To The Same Thing Next Year, Perhaps Worse?

Over the course of the next few weeks while City Hall's 2027 budget process struggles to wrap up, HUDseen will point out a few properties owned by our friends at Galvan (and one or two others) that readers may not be aware are 100% tax-exempt. *   Let's call them strangely and unjustifiably tax-exempt.  Let's call them a strain on the city's housing, livability and affordability crisis.  Let's call them unwelcome in the 21st century.  Let's call them budget killers and a source of the perennial question: "Why are we so god damn short on revenue every f'ng year!!?". 

No Posted Building Permit (Code), No Posted Sidewalk Permit (DPW), No Posted Parking Permit (HPD)! We All Pay The Price For No One Paying Attention!

City Hall is supposed to protect us from this bullshit.

Will We Soon Have Sunflowers Blooming Year Round?

It's a lovely and welcome sight, no doubt, but something must be wrong.  We may get snow this weekend!  (Picture taken on Saturday in the upper 500 block of State.)

Who Doesn't Love Marigolds and Other Greenery (And Black Weed Barriers)??

Click for more pics.

Bigger Vehicle, Bigger Sense Of Entitlement? (And Other Stories Of Parking Woes!)

Yesterday was an insanely busy day of foot and vehicle traffic on Warren Street, with no shortage of out of state license plates and double parked and illegally parked vehicles all around, particularly near the world's busiest coffee shop located at the city's most dangerous intersection at a turn in the truck route.  For example, take the white van with Massachusetts plates seen in the picture below that I took yesterday just past noon.  

(The lead picture was taken a few weeks ago on South 3rd in front of one of the city's top three most expensive restaurants.)

Which Flock Camera Was HPD Officer Randy Strattman Referring To?

Anyone who has recently been paying attention to local news and to meetings of the so-called SAFETY Committee knows that our police department does not possess or use any of the controversial Flock surveillance cameras that police forces are steering clear of, reconsidering, and getting rid of left and right.  Instead of license plate reading cameras (LPR's) made by Flock, the Hudson Police Department has made it clear publicly that it only utilizes LPR's made by a company named Axon.  These surveillance cameras can be found in patrol vehicles and at the end of at least three streetlight arms at the city's peripheries where lots of license plates need to be surveilled to keep Hudson residents safe from unregistered vehicles attempting to pass through the city.  Unlike Flock cameras, we are not supposed to be concerned about privacy matters related to Axon cameras.   At least that's what HPD tells us and that they and Axon want us to believe. 

Why Is A Second Ward Council Member Receiving His Mail At A House He Owns In Greenport If He's Never Lived There?

Could it be because Dewan Sarowar has owned 46 Green Acres Road for 10 years and still lives there with his wife and child(ren)?  Is that why his name is on a mailbox located over a mile north of the Hudson High School, well outside of Hudson?  Because he lives in the house in Greenport that he owns, not in the house in Hudson he sold 12 years ago?