City Councilor's Parking Tickets - Not a Big Deal

The Boston Herald today goes after Boston City Councilor Mike Ross for his parking violations: 115 in two years.  Yes, that's a lot of tickets, but you know how many are left unpaid?  Zero.  He paid them all.  He didn't try to get them fixed; he didn't leave them in the glovebox, or throw them on the sidewalk.  He paid them.

Now, to be fair to the Herald [irony alert], Ross did owe about $400 when the Herald asked for his records.  But that's paltry compared to the $5100 total he paid over two years without the Herald's looking at his records.

So, OK, he parks illegally.  Sometimes I do too.  As long as you pay the fines, that's the cost of living in the city.  I wish the Herald would stay on a real story, like the Mayor's web of influence, or the Turnpike Chairman's apparent corruption, or the Suffolk Sheriff's probable criminality.  Parking tickets?  Paid parking tickets?  That's just not news.