Talk:Western Massachusetts

message: I am a native of Westfield, my father's family is from Hartford.  In all my life I have never heard of Springfield and Hartford referred to as Twin Cities.  Could someone please tell me the root of that concept? Nepal Tree — Preceding undated comment added 03:39, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably that they're the two largest cities in western New England and a half hour apart.  That being said, this whole "Twin City" notion's a bit of a crock.  Ravenswing 06:46, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I never heard of them called Twin Cities either.  The closest I've heard is Bradley Airport being called the Hartford/Springfield airport. Stev0 06:57, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'm not sure where that came from either.  It might be something about Hartford and Springfield trying to cooperate economically, like that commuter rail thing or something.  We can take it out. --Dunkelza 17:15, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Twin Cities

message: Why accept the "classifieds" but not the business directory link? - Denimadept 15:11, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right. I've removed those too. AJD 18:49, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link spam? 

message: I've heard of it too.  It also comes up regarding the state's 5% sales tax.  Which either every 2 or 3 out of the 5 cents went to the MBTA.  Western Mass. persons in the past have said they have to pay the sales tax to support the MBTA and yet the MBTA doesn't goto western Mass. And yes I've heard the same arguments about the Turnpike.  Stating that all the recent construction was on the Boston end of the authority and that the Western half should be all paid up by now.  And there was a huge battle cry from western Mass. that even though they travel the most road they shouldn't pay for the western half of the tolls. Easy quick google search under : "western Massachusetts 5% sales tax MBTA"
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CaribDigita (talk) 01:01, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Regarding talk of secession

message: When is Worcester ever considered to be part of Western Massachusetts? john k (talk) 16:49, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: By people from the Boston area, where the "real" Massachusetts stops at Rte 128, and the words "Hic draconis est" are scrawled across the Berkshires.  Otherwise, no.   Ravenswing   17:37, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Worcester 

message: "There are 103 towns and 11 cities in Western Massachusetts, spread throughout five counties; however, none of these (formerly active) political entities retains any government functions."
Am I misunderstanding this somehow? None of the towns and cities in Western Mass have any government functions? 'Cause we elect a mayor and city council in Northampton, and we call it "city government". Even our city government thinks it's a government: http://www.northamptonma.gov/27/City-Government If nobody objects, I'm going to wait a couple of days and then strip out "however, ... functions."
BTW and OT, nice job on the History section editors, to me it comes across very wikipedian - neutral, factual, non-POV.
Spike0xff (talk) 20:35, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Clarified.  Does that help?  Massachusetts county governments were dissolved by Governor Weld.  Massachusetts has NO unincorporated land area. - Denimadept (talk) 00:03, 27 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  Mm, not quite; only eight of the county governments were abolished.  Plymouth, Suffolk, Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket are intact.That being said, the article's still a bit of a mess.  The lede is especially aggravating; it reads like a CoC brochure.  Anyone got the time to tackle it?   Ravenswing   00:31, 27 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Puzzling first sentence in Geography section 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I am a student editor currently taking a course at Texas A&M University, so will be working on this article for the next few weeks. I will be working on fixing the encyclopedic tone and some organization within the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nellybelly19 (talk • contribs) 17:08, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Student Editor 

message: As I begin looking at this page and comparing it to similar pages for regions, I notice that not all list the "major" roadways present. Is this information that's really necessary to have? If so, is there a way it could be better organized?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nellybelly19 (talk • contribs) 06:05, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are Roadways Necessary? 

message: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Museum_of_Contemporary_Art Thomswift1 (talk) 01:01, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: ... what about it?   Ravenswing      04:06, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MOCA)