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December 18, 2008 By syphax 12 Comments

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...]

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Obama Cabinet takes shape [Cabinet Open Thread]

November 21, 2008 By Christopher 9 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: barack-obama, national, transition

President-elect Obama creates web site to open the transition process

November 9, 2008 By AmberPaw 5 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: governance, obam, president-elect, transition, transparency

Globe op-ed recycles civic engagement working group’s recommendations

December 31, 2006 By David 19 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: civic-engagement, ma, media, patrick, transition

All transition reports are now publicly available

December 26, 2006 By David 6 Comments

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...]

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Civic engagement working group meeting transcripts

December 21, 2006 By David 4 Comments

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...]

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Working Groups & Public Participation: What Now?

December 18, 2006 By Trickle up 7 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: murray, participation, patrick, public, transition, working-groups

Belated thanks for Technology Working Group input!

December 18, 2006 By Charley on the MTA Leave a Comment

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...]

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Berkshires Community Meeting Report

December 12, 2006 By michael-forbes-wilcox 3 Comments

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...]

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[Was] Going on Now on BMG! Technology Working Group Community Meeting

December 11, 2006 By steelfisher 169 Comments

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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These process-oriented votes do indeed have a profound effect on the substance.

If your rep isn’t progressive on transparency and process, then they’re not that progressive.

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36 reps voted in favor of transparency today, with 122 reps opposed. Roll call below:

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36 reps voted in favor of transparency today, with 122 reps opposed. Roll call below:

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marceeliasMarc E. Elias@marceelias·
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The fact that we are about to be hit with a tidal wave of voter suppression legislation by Republican legislatures throughout the country is the most under reported story right now. The media is unequipped to cover this in clear moral terms and instead prefers to both sides it.

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TracyNovickTracy O'Connell Novick@TracyNovick·
24 Feb

Woke up sick about the state, which has so badly mismanaged so much of the COVID-19 response for the entire year, insisting their judgment should be substituted for local districts when they have made it clear they both don’t know and don’t care about local conditions. #MAEdu

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MiriamWasserMiriam Wasser@MiriamWasser·
23 Feb

My unsolicited environmental recommendation of the day: this episode of "Why Is This Happening?"

The conversation between @drvolts and @chrislhayes is accessible to those who know little about the power system, and it's smart, funny and quite profound. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/powering-the-grid-with-david-roberts/id1382983397?i=1000510291170

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