With the polls closed, the unofficial vote total is in and shows a strong victory for the YES campaign: Yes: 4728 (55%) No: 3818 (45%)
Belmontonian: Put Aside Fear, Vote YES Today!
With just a few hundred words, Editor Franklin Tucker has perfectly articulated the need for the town to vote YES on Question 1, and exposed the NO Campaign – funded almost entirely by former Warrant Committee member Liz Allison – for what it is: a cynical attempt to derail needed and long overdue investment in the town and schools.
Funding our future: why I’m voting YES
This has been a heated campaign, with spirited debates and high emotions on both sides. (Did I really just get a reminder from the BPD that stealing political signs is a crime??) But the choice posed to Belmont is remarkably clear. You can vote YES to invest in Belmont’s future: its roads, sidewalks, schools, libraries and public buildings. Or you can vote NO and send a message that you think Belmont should make do with less – poorer services, decaying infrastructure, diminished schools.
Belmont’s No Nothings
We didn’t need Warrant Committee member Adam Dash to hold up a student’s tattered, 20 year old text book, as he did at last week’s Candidate’s Night debate, to grasp the depths to which our Town of Homes has fallen.…
Final Stretch: Five Ways To Say ‘Yes For Belmont’ This Week
We’re a little more than a week away from the April 7th Town Election. If you’ve been sitting on the sidelines and watching the orange lawn signs drift by outside the car window, the time is NOW to get off your…
Belmont High Seniors Take Plea for School Funding to the Globe
Kudos to Belmont High senior Daniel Vernick and his classmates, who took to the pages of the Boston Globe with a well-written and cogent argument for why Belmont so desperately needs to pass the Proposition 2 1/2 override on April 7th –…