John P. Holdren is Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy and Director of the Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy at the Kennedy School, as well as Professor of Environmental Science and Public Policy in the … [Read more...]
Obama Cabinet takes shape [Cabinet Open Thread]
State - Hillary Clinton looks like a done deal, with apparently concerns about her husband's connections worked out. Defense - It looks like Robert Gates will stay on. Was he pushing for pullout of Iraq behind the scenes? … [Read more...]
President-elect Obama creates web site to open the transition process
Here is the link: http://change.gov/ Rather a simple link for a major improvement in open transition work on the national level. I strongly suggest a visit to this site. It does include a blog, and the ability to provide … [Read more...]
Globe op-ed recycles civic engagement working group’s recommendations
OK, I admit it: this annoyed me. Yesterday's Globe featured an op-ed by David Tebaldi, the head of the Mass. Foundation for the Humanities, who I'm sure is a very nice man but who perhaps needs to get out more. Or maybe it's the … [Read more...]
All transition reports are now publicly available
The Patrick/Murray Transition Team has posted all of the final reports from their transition working groups at the Transition website. Also posted on the same page are links to all the comments to the working groups that were received … [Read more...]
Civic engagement working group meeting transcripts
Now that the work of the civic engagement working group is officially over, I'm going to take down the box with links to the transcripts of the group's public meetings. If you haven't read them, I'll post the links again here -- … [Read more...]
Working Groups & Public Participation: What Now?
So there must be, what, thousands of ideas and bits of testimony to the transition working groups about how to go forward? Tens of thousands? Anyway, many more ideas and viewpoints and claims of facts, not always in agreement, than anyone … [Read more...]
Belated thanks for Technology Working Group input!
Many thanks to all who commented last Monday at the Patrick Transition Team's on-line Technology Working Group Open Meeting. You can read the thread, and all the ideas posted here, and there were a handful of comments posted here as … [Read more...]
Berkshires Community Meeting Report
I've been too busy with my work on the transition team (as a member of the Economic Development working group) to do much blogging of late, but I did manage to get up a post about a couple of meetings held in Pittsfield yesterday.I note a … [Read more...]
[Was] Going on Now on BMG! Technology Working Group Community Meeting
The Governor-elect asked that our group concentrate on the following:A plan to implement statewide WiFi (or ubiquitous broadband)Using technology to rebuild communitiesAllowing for greater transparency in governmentWho is here: Louis … [Read more...]
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