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- Methadone … Cure or Curse?
- When Should the Elderly Stop Driving?
- There's More to Voting Than You Might Think
- I Didn't Take The Job To Be Important
- Let's Wrap Up 2002 Legislation
- More Ideas on MCAS Tests
- One More Look at MCAS
- What Does Westfield Have?
- What Does Westfield Need?
- I'm Still Proud to Represent Westfield
- Is it time to take another look at Casinos?
- Going to Bat for an Ex-Con
- Where Does the Bond Money Go?
- Changing the Voting Age? I Don’t Think So!
- Welcome to History, Welcome to the State House
- Lottery has Winning Year
- July in the City
- A Quick Look at Fireworks ... and Taxes
- We’re once again trying to define "fat"
- Talking to Animals in the Backyard
- Celebrating Flag Day — Thanks to Westfield’s Vets
- There Seems to be a Lull in the Action
- From Horton and the Grinch to Down Cape
- What's "Normal" in Politics? Nothing!
- Oh, the Places You’ll Go, the Things You’ll Learn
- We're Still Working on It
- I’m Listening…I’m Listening…and then Spending
- I Earned It–-and, I Kept It
- What is a dragon doing in my mail?
- Think You’re Paying Too Much in Taxes?
- Taking Time to Look Out the Window
- Getting ready for the Easter Bunny
- Unearthing Bits of Westfield’s History
- It’s a Long, Long Way to January
- Are All Those Tax Cuts Valuable?
- It's Been Eight Great Years
- "I Have Been Tasked," She said
- It’s an Unending Flow of Information
- Just 23 Inches of Information
- Tired of Budget Talk? Let's Lighten It Up!
- All We're Talking About is Money
- Looking Back to What We Did and Didn't Do
- State House Back to Work
- Helping Veterans in the Year 2002
- Cele's 2001 Columns
- Columbia Pedaling Into the New Year
- We’re All Decking the Halls
- Looking Ahead to Ballot Issues
- Speaking of the Politically Correct …
- Old Bell Finds a Lot to Be Thankful For
- We’re Deep Fat Frying the Turkey Today
- Remember--The 11th Hour, 11th Day, 11th Month
- Organs from Westfield Found Around the Country
- Just Some Things to Think About
- If It's Not Raining, It's At Least Drizzling
- All Right, Here's What Refugees Get
- Modern Manners … Circa 1930
- It Used to be Septic Tanks … now it’s the Turnpike
- When Should You Stop Driving?
- A Letter to a Friend, with Thoughts on Terrorism and Tragedy
- Playing Tourist Close to Home
- A Student Gives MCAS a Passing Grade
- A Lesson About Lobsters
- More of the Piles, Pamphlets, Pages and Papers
- The Pile Measures Two Feet Six Inches
- Massachusetts Hospitals Might Be Fatally Ill
- Summer Doldrums Hit State House
- Enjoy the Sites of Beacon Hill
- What Do Legislators Discuss? Publicly vs Privately?
- The Importance of a Doughnut
- Cold Fried Chicken and Chiggers
- Legislators Have Ideas to Protect Our Pets
- Contrary to Rumor, I’m Alive and Well
- I Still Don’t Like Boston Cream Doughnuts
- Tourism–Massachusetts 3rd Largest Industry
- Alzheimer’s — It Affects All of Us
- Yes, You Can Drive in Barefeet
- Mothers Day Remembered
- It's Budget Week and We're Spending $23-billion
- You Can Fill Fenway Three Times
- Remember that Grade School Bully?
- Daddy Gave Me a Duck for Easter
- More of the Bits and Pieces
- Taking a Look at Local Legislation
- One More Look at Voter-Funded Elections
- What Do Legislative Committees Do?
- Just Sorting My Mail
- We're Building Bridges ... Lots of Them
- The Religious Life of a Politician
- Nobody Ever Said I Was Average
- I’m No Potted Plant!
- What are People Talking About?
- We’re Trying to Improve the Business Climate
- Legislature Slow to Return to Business
- Not Fair! But, Life isn't Fair!
- Happy New Century, Year, Day!
- Won’t cook it, eat it, touch it and you wouldn’t either: lutefisk
- Cele's 2000 Columns
- Here We Go Again ... Gearing up for 2001
- Please pass the Lutefisk and Limpa
- Catching up on the Little Stuff
- A Look at the MCAS Tests
- I Lost October and November
- Old Bell Finds a Lot to be Thankful For
- Thank You! What's Next?
- An Open Letter to Carla
- Breaking the Law to Save Big Bucks
- Question Five ... You Decide
- A Fake I.D.? Don't Fake It From Massachusetts
- $42-Million Facelift Underway at State House
- Are Housekeeping Skills Inherited?
- I Won't Be Coming to Your Door
- While Driving the Pike
- Putting out the Fires on Beacon Hill
- A Look at Massachusetts, by the Numbers
- What Kind of Holiday Is this?
- Pharmacists, Plumbers, and Profusionists
- Another Look at the Progress We've Made
- A Decade of Progress ... Looking Back to 1990
- Maybe You Really Can't Go Back
- Some Questions Never Asked
- Taking a Look at the Fall Ballot
- Calling lt Quits for 1999-2000
- It Ain't Over 'til It's Over ... HMO Reform
- Cold fried chicken and chiggers
- We Can't Legislate Morality
- Remembering Dad--And All the Cars
- Take Me Out to the Ballgame
- It's Time to Check the Mail Bag
- Memorial Day: The Day to Remember
- I Didn't Win the Lottery Either
- You Probably Voted for Clean Elections
- Still Pitching After All These Years
- Staying Awake in the House Chamber
- My Excise Taxes are Just Five Dollars
- A Report Card on Our Schools
- Libraries, schools, roads, bridges ... your tax dollars
- Let the Games Begin ... It's Budget Time, Again
- Do Your Socks Run Away from Home?
- We're Burying Billions under Boston
- Form letters don't mean much ... but ...
- What's the Worst Thing You Could Say?
- Did I Tell You Dad Shot the Squirrels?
- How to Spend $21.3-Billion of Your Dollars
- Counting Farms, Counting People, Counting Cadavers
- Remember February 1978? The Big Storm?
- Since Women Got the Right to Vote ...
- It's a $33-Million Facelift
- What Does a State Representative Do?
- What May--or May Not--Be on the Ballot This Year
- Cele's 1999 Columns
- Silver Pantihose, Yes -- Hawkeye Casket, No
- Santa Fails to Meet State Standards
- Please pass the Lutefisk and Limpa
- Health Care is in the Intensive Care Unit
- Joining Santa and the State on the Internet
- Where Did the Mashed Potatoes Go?
- Old Bell Finds a Lot to be Thankful For
- Did We Get $2.8-Billion in Results?
- I'm just reading the mail...
- Please Pass the Body Parts
- Tossing Pigeons, Counting Cars
- Strange Things Are Happening
- Will We Ever Have a State Budget?
- Town Vs Gown ... Problems & Benefits
- It's National Hunting and Fishing Day
- A Look Inside the Walls
- Everyone Should Have an Uncle Ken
- Preserving Western Massachusetts
- I've Got My Back to School Crayons
- The Problem with Pigs
- Everything you never needed to know
- Summertime...and the Living is Easy
- HMOs...Here We Go, Again
- Erasing High Anxiety of Tuition
- I Was Talking To a Trooper
- Who Is That Old Indian, Anyway?
- Cold Fried Chicken and Chiggers
- Time to Think About New Years Eve
- Looking at the Big Picture
- Today's the Wedding Day
- Don't Tell My Husband....But
- Betty Crocker, Martha Stewart and Cele?
- Goodbye, Graduates and Guardsmen
- Signs, Signs, Everywhere a Sign
- Spending Your Tax Dollars - Part Two
- How Do You Spend $20.77-Billion?
- Putting Your Car on the Treadmill
- Is Your Dog Worth More than Your Child?
- We're Looking at Mental Health
- Now, It's the Official Toad, Sport and Candy
- The High Cost of Running
- Where Excise Taxes Go...and Other Trivia
- When The Phone Doesn't Ring
- We Just Don't Have Enough Beds
- The Graying of Massachusetts
- That Old Salt Shed Is Valuable
- Where are you going so fast?
- Happy 33rd Anniversary, Curt
- We're Mad as Hell, and...
- So, You're Not Happy with Your HMO?
- We're Learning About Education
- The First Wednesday in January
- We're Buttering the Cats
- Cele's 1998 Columns
- We Wish You a Merry...
- You Taste Just Like an Overshoe
- You Wouldn't Want to be the Clerk
- The High Cost of Drugs and Drink
- Congratulations--and $2,000--to Georgianna
- Old Bell Finds a Lot to be Thankful For
- Remembering the Ghost Soldiers
- Since you asked about it
- Reading the mail, again.
- Westfield's Famous Hydroponic Weed
- Westfield is Making Business News
- Westfield - The Whip City
- Money, Money, Money, Money
- Is There a Woman in the House?
- Did you remember to Vote?
- Change is the operative word
- It wasn't the best school year
- Walking in the Spam Shoes
- Bet you didn't know, or care...but...
- Walking through History
- Don't be a Deadbeat
- Russian "Welcome to Westfield"
- Where Do You Live?
- Hazy, Hot, Humid and Hectic
- A letter to a teacher in Iowa
- Cold fried chicken and chiggers
- You Can Never Trust a Bottle Rocket
- The Key to East High School
- Water, Water Everywhere
- Did I Remember to Tell You About...
- Now you see me, now you don't
- "Mind your own business," She Replied
- Improving Auto Insurance Step by Step
- Hilltowns have Beacon Hill Clout
- How to spend $19-Billion
- And now, the official donut
- Putting together a scrambled egg
- Dead ducks? Peeps in Jello?
- Do You Really Enjoy All of This?
- Thank you, to Mr. Jack Fitzgibbon
- Answers to Questions Never Asked
- Do Women Have Place in Politics?
- Clearing the piles off the desk again
- Soaring with eagles, in Westfield
- What Does A Representative Do?
- What made them think that 55 is old?
- What if everyone fails the tests?
- Going Outdoors? Or, Out on the Ice?
- Okay, Parents, Before you Call Me
- State House Press Tells Us What's Important
- Celebrating 200 Years in 1998
- Women, Refuse to be a Victim
- Cele's 1997 Columns
- Looking Ahead to the Legislature's New Year
- We Wish You a Merry...
- Please pass the lutefisk and limpa
- Esta La Bandera de Puerto Rico
- Where did the mashed potatoes go?
- Old Bell Finds a Lot to be Thankful For
- Pine Cones, Pineapples or Corn?
- What Symbolizes Westfield For You?
- Every Day in Massachusetts...
- Questions from the Hill and Other Places
- Goals for State Colleges Admirable
- What a Glorious Day Wednesday Was!
- There's a New Bridge Coming....2001
- From the top of the pile
- Bullfighting, Banking and the Big E
- Taking a look at other states
- I'm Proud to Represent Westfield
- And, these things make me happy
- What's the appeal of Bingo?
- I'm Your $250-Thousand Woman
- And, Just What Did You Do?
- A Look at the Sex Offender Registry
- That Is Not My Pink Dog
- Anything Reasonable and Proper
- We're Off to the Races
- The Cost of a 200-Year Celebration
- Just Who Is On the Dole?
- The Way It Was In the State House
- From The Clutter on My Desk
- The Drug Addict is Your Neighbor
- Choosing the Massachusetts State Cookie
- Of Course, We Remember Them
- Just How Tall Are You, Anyway?
- Remember that first cigaret?
- And Now, In No Particular Order
- The Little People of the Trees
- When I was only Sixteen
- Center Does Indeed Offer Hope
- Official Stuff - The State Cookie
- Doing time ... or business ... with MassCor
- And, just what does a State Rep Do?
- Handicap Makes a Difference In How People React to You
- Sometimes I'd Do Better If I Was Absent
- When Alzheimers Hits Home
- Bumpkin Island? Gallops Island?
- Moses was a Wise Old Man
- The House--Designed to be Inefficient?
- Making Massachusetts Business-Friendly
- The lighter side--low fat, no meat
- Are You Making Resolutions This Year?
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- Will they go home to roost?
- Banana Man
- Count Your Change
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- Goodbye, Gecko
- Mexican logic
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