Update: Here’s a comment from Adam Chapdelaine, Town Manager of Arlington. As mentioned below, he’s had some recent experience navigating the civil service and collective bargaining systems vis-a-vis police: Two major thoughts on S … [Read more...]
Call NOW: The MA Senate re-takes up reform legislation debate at 11am today
Sorry for the radio silence. I've had ... a lot going on. Will say more later. Too long, didn't read: The MA Senate has created a police reform bill called the Reform, Shift, + Build Act. Among many other needed reforms*, it includes an … [Read more...]
Lobbying Speaker DeLeo: Bring H4440 to Vote. Allow Fossil Fuel Divestment
Saw this at the Sunrise Movement Boston events page (https://www.facebook.com/events/606019430292922/) while putting together this week's Energy (and Other) Events (http://hubevents.blogspot.com), my free weekly listing of events on those … [Read more...]
“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”?
This seems like an appropriate time to refrain from the usual nod to jingoism -- the NPR voices reading the Declaration of Independence, for instance -- and to state plainly again that the work of self-determination, celebrated on behalf of … [Read more...]
State Rep candidate (Revere, Saugus, Chelsea) Joe Gravellese talks to BMG
Well, this is one of the longer things you’ll see on BMG. I hope you’ll agree it’s also very much worth it. At jconway’s suggestion, I reached out to State Rep candidate Joe Gravellese, who is running in the 16th Suffolk district — … [Read more...]
Random Thoughts During the Pandemic
Instead of calling grocery store workers "heroes" for putting their health at risk to make sure we all got to eat, how about we agree to pay them all a sustainable wage? The same goes for nursing home workers and all the rest. If now … [Read more...]
I like the sound of Vice President Susan Rice
Joe Biden should give serious consideration to naming former US Ambassador to the United Nations and National Security Advisor Susan Rice as his Vice Presidential running mate. Why? Here she is today in a NYT op-ed on Trump's treason : … [Read more...]
Is there a reason Commuter Rail didn’t collect fares today?
I had an appointment in Boston today, so I took the Commuter Rail in and out from Lowell. At Gallagher Terminal I found there was no ticket counter in the lobby since LRTA is trying to keep that as clear as possible to accomplish social … [Read more...]
A Few Events in the Global Climate Conversation
I’ve been publishing a free weekly listing of Energy (and Other) Events around Cambridge, MA for more than a decade as a listserv and a webpage (http://hubevents.blogspot.com). It covers public events in the community and in the local … [Read more...]
The Most Important Jigsaw Puzzle
The most important jigsaw puzzle right now is how the CoV-2 spike, a 3 part structure, attaches to the human ACE2 protein through which it enters the cells of our bodies. That is the microscopic gap in our defenses. When we understand … [Read more...]
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