t's a love-in at Town Meeting where everyone is tickled about our healthy town budget. Catch your breath, 'cause 2014's gonna be HAIRY.
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t's a love-in at Town Meeting where everyone is tickled about our healthy town budget. Catch your breath, 'cause 2014's gonna be HAIRY.
We're back at the annual Town Meeting to discuss a myriad of budget issues. Pour yourself a drink of something.
There's no more important institution in Belmont than our public schools. There's no more important elected body than the School Committee, which is the community's voice to the School Administration. In this year's School Committee race, I think there are two clear choices for the two open spots: Anne Lougee and Pascha Griffiths. ...
I think there's an abundance of evidence that Dan Scharfman is the right choice in the Selectman's race, and what Belmont needs to move the Board Of Selectman (and Belmont) into the future. His intelligence, patience, work ethic, and his preference for facts over ideology will be a welcome addition to our understaffed and...
In Belmont, April 2, 2012 will mark 10 years since the passage of the last non debt-exclusion Proposition 2 1/2 override. That's a long time, but its useful here to compare our drought with those of our peer communities. That's what I've tried to do here: using some simple data visualization tools, I've...
An interesting article on the benefits of being bilingual. Besides being able to talk to more folks - it makes you smarter and your brain more resilient, according to recent studies. Read the New York Times article on the latest findings.
Came across this article in my online ramblings. It’s interesting, especially as the societal conversation about the rising costs of college and what you might call the ROI (return on investment) of post secondary education. There’s also the undeniable fact that 4 additional years of lectures and term papers and classroom study isn’t for...
An interesting interview with the three School Committee candidates on online learning models like Khan Academy. Long and short: we’ve got one strong “Yes” one “Maybe” and one “I need to think about it.” First: the “maybe.” Candidate Anne Lougee is intrigued by the idea of online learning models such as the Khan Academy...
An update on the proposed MBTA cuts that could affect Belmont. Will Brownsberger will be hosting a forum this Thursday evening, March 15, in the Selectman's Room at Belmont Town Hall to discuss the proposed cuts, according to a story in the Patch.
Unless the legislature comes through with funding to support the T in its current (already reduced, fared-up) state, the cuts are going to be deep. According to the released document, the T is proposing two alternate plans - both of them bad, and one of them terrible for Belmont.
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