There’s a free class this Saturday on how to protect yourself from online fraud featuring yours truly. We’ll talk about the Equifax breach and how to protect yourself as well as major forms of online fraud like phishing, ransomware and…
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Curious about Plans for Belmont High: Attend Meeting Tuesday Evening
The Belmont High School Building Committee is holding a community engagement meeting tomorrow evening (Tuesday, Sept. 19) at 7PM at Chenery Auditorium. If you’re curious – plan on checking it out!
Selectmen to Accountability: Drop Dead!
Summary: Amid uproar over the town’s runaway Planning Board, the Board of Selectman passed over a seasoned planning professional and former planner for the City of Los Angeles to appoint a political insider with no professional planning background and reappoint…
This Week: Two Ways to push for Accountability, Expertise on Planning Board
Summary: with two open slots on Planning Board, Belmont’s Selectmen have the chance to appoint a planning professional. Join me in writing to encourage them to appoint Ed Sanderson (email addresses provided at bottom of post). Also: a Planning Board…
Opinion: Mischief Unmanaged on Planning Board
Unless you have a passion for things like ‘privatizing public institutions,’ there’s little to admire about the Planning Board’s idea for relocating the public library.
Round 3: Support the Library Tonight at 7:00 PM!
Hey Blogging Belmont readers. I’ve been trying to keep you updated about the ongoing and somewhat strange proposal, by our Planning Board, to relocate the Belmont Public Library from its current location to the site of the Belmont Car Wash…
Selectmen Punt on Library-Car Wash Idea. Go to Planning Board Tonight, or send an E-mail.
The discussion of the Planning Board’s idea to move our Public Library to the Belmont Car Wash on Trapelo Road (wha??) moves to the Senior Center tonight (TUE) where the full Planning Board will discuss the matter. If you can’t make it, I’ve provided email addresses for Planning Board members so you can make your feelings known.
What the B**k??! Belmont’s Library Needs Your Support Tonight and Tuesday Evening
The Planning Board sprung a wild idea to move the main branch of the Belmont Public Library across town. Weigh in on that plan tonight at the Selectmen’s meeting and tomorrow (Tuesday) at the Planning Board Meeting at Beech Street Center.
Austin’s Story: the Tragedy of Solitary Confinement in our State Prisons
On June 19th at a statehouse hearing on criminal justice bills, including solitary confinement bills, I gave a statement about the young man I visit in solitary confinement in the hope that my experience will reveal this barbaric practice for…
Bill Proposes Way to Make Walmart Pay for its Multi-Billion Dollar Food Stamp Subsidy
Summary: a bill proposed in the House would levy a fee on Wal-Mart and other employers whose low wages force full-time employees to tap public assistance to make ends meet.