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Patrick administration to host 36 community forums (fora?) on budget choices and priorities

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The Patrick administration has announced a series of 36 community meetings to discuss the budget situation, taxes, and all the rest of it.  According to a press release, the Governor will personally host four of the meetings (Braintree on May 11th, Boston on May 14th, Franklin on May 17th and Marblehead on May 21st); Lieutenant Governor Murray will host another four (Cambridge on May 12th, Norwood on May 18th, Saugus on May 19th and Hyannis on May 21st); and the others will be hosted by “senior administration officials” to be named later.

Meeting locations are:

Boston (2 meetings) Marlboro Worcester

Cambridge Pittsfield Fitchburg

Franklin Williamstown Milford

Hyannis Monterey Scituate

Norwood Amherst/Northampton Bridgewater

Saugus Chesterfield Wareham

Andover Westfield Attleboro

Pepperell Springfield Taunton

Ipswich Brimfield Dartmouth

Newton Deerfield Martha’s Vineyard

Lexington Chelsea Orange

Marblehead Braintree

There’s no specific information about venues yet, but I assume that will be posted closer to the actual events.  As noted above, the first one, on May 11 in Braintree, will be hosted by the Governor.

This is a good idea, and I’d encourage folks to attend if you can.  We will try to stay on top of locations, personnel, etc., and update the information as it becomes available.

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  1. This kind of thing is an occupational hazzard for lawyers. Only a lawyer could love this kind of silly Latinism. Read Stephen Pinker on how the lawyer’s Latinate fetish about split infinitives caused the Chief Justice’s oath of office malfunction at the Inauguration.

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    • …with five years of Latin under my belt.  I use fora, though spellcheck on MS Word objects.

      • I once read a purposely wrong statement, and spellcheck found only two errors out of 15.  

    • … ever done for us?!“

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      REG:  They’ve bled us white, the bastards. They’ve taken everything we had, and not just from us, from our fathers, and from our fathers’ fathers.
      LORETTA:  And from our fathers’ fathers’ fathers.
      REG:  Yeah.
      LORETTA:  And from our fathers’ fathers’ fathers’ fathers.
      REG:  Yeah. All right, Stan. Don’t labour the point. And what have they ever given us in return?!
      XERXES:  The aqueduct?
      REG:  What?
      XERXES:  The aqueduct.
      REG:  Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that’s true. Yeah.
      COMMANDO #3:  And the sanitation.
      LORETTA:  Oh, yeah, the sanitation, Reg. Remember what the city used to be like?
      REG:  Yeah. All right. I’ll grant you the aqueduct and the sanitation are two things that the Romans have done.
      MATTHIAS:  And the roads.
      REG:  Well, yeah. Obviously the roads. I mean, the roads go without saying, don’t they? But apart from the sanitation, the aqueduct, and the roads–
      COMMANDO:  Irrigation.
      XERXES:  Medicine.
      COMMANDOS:  Huh? Heh? Huh…
      COMMANDO #2:  Education.
      COMMANDOS:  Ohh…
      REG:  Yeah, yeah. All right. Fair enough.
      COMMANDO #1:  And the wine.
      COMMANDOS:  Oh, yes. Yeah…
      FRANCIS:  Yeah. Yeah, that’s something we’d really miss, Reg, if the Romans left. Huh.
      COMMANDO:  Public baths.
      LORETTA:  And it’s safe to walk in the streets at night now, Reg.
      FRANCIS:  Yeah, they certainly know how to keep order. Let’s face it. They’re the only ones who could in a place like this.
      COMMANDOS:  Hehh, heh. Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh.
      REG:  All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
      XERXES:  Brought peace.
      REG:  Oh. Peace? Shut up!
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      • I almost got it the other night but rented “Kingdom of God” instead.  Surprise, surprise, it was rife with inaccuracy.  

  3. Given today’s dire fiscal picture, I assume free community college tuition has been shelved.

  4. Is only 17% of the cost of attending college full-time. They’re just paying lip service with the meetings.

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