RheingoldLearningRevolution 20 minute summary about the pedagogy and use of social media Howard Rheingold developed over 10 years teaching at Stanford and Berkeley https://youtu.be/DgbQiDeQ12I Howard Rheingold wrote The Virtual … [Read more...]
City Agriculture – October 15, 2020
Map of the public access fruit trees of Toronto http://www.mapto.ca/maps/the-fruit-trees-of-toronto Green transformation for a railway yard in St Petersburg, … [Read more...]
Campaign Manifesto #1: In A World Of Phonies, It’s Time For A Fake Candidate
It was almost too good to be true. Richard Milhous Nixon, the main villain of my political consciousness for as long as I can remember, was finally biting that bullet that he's been talking about all these years. The man that not even … [Read more...]
Margot Barnet for State Representative
It is not a pipe dream. All around us, models of community based projects that make our lives better are popping up. Some, like community health centers, have been around for decades. Community development corporations are … [Read more...]
Bioneers By The Bay: Connecting For Change Community Input Meeting
Please join the Marion Institute this evening in New Bedford, MA to discuss the upcoming conference, Bioneers By The Bay: Connecting For Change. The event details are as follows: Date: April 28, 2009 Time: 6:00pm Location: New Bedford … [Read more...]
DMR’s group home monitoring system
Gail Grossman, the DMR offical in charge of QUEST, was first asked by one of the callers on the line how often the group homes were visited and licensed.She answered the question very selectively. Each home that … [Read more...]
A Suggestion to the Community: Add an email to your profile!
I use a fake email and it allows me to receive emails in my normal inbox from fellow BMGers without giving up my identity or my private email. I've never received spam or harassment. And only four people have contacted me, so it's not like … [Read more...]
Who Needs Libraries, Anyways?
...Brockton Public Library faces a... loss of eight jobs, six from layoffs in the fiscal 2009 budget currently before the City Council. ...Bridgewater Public Library awaits a June tax override vote to [fund] the restoration of the 63 … [Read more...]
Food Bank Shortages and Us
Experts attributed the shortages to an unusual combination of factors, including rising demand, a sharp drop in federal supplies of excess farm products, and tighter inventory controls that are leaving supermarkets and other retailers with … [Read more...]
Everybody Wins!
Kris Mineau, Ray Flynn and the rest get to continue to do their ugly pathetic thing--be the righteous victims of wickedness, cheated again by legislative shenanigans or corruption or the just plain horrible tyranny of the majority (in this … [Read more...]