Monthly Archives: May 2014

Belmont High School’s Jeff Shea is Massachusetts Teacher of the Year

Dr. Jeffrey Shea, a social studies teacher at Belmont High School, was awarded the 2015 Massachusetts Teacher of the Year by Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester on May 6 at a ceremony that filled the school fieldhouse with students, teachers, parents, community members, and colorful banners. Senator Brownsberger presented a Senate citation to Jeff Shea in recogntion of his achievement. The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and …

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The ever-growing surveillance state

Although this seems to be a national issue this could also be an issue for a state representative blog site. The 10th amendment of the Constitution permits federal law nullification and carveouts see www.tenthamendmentCenter.com. Unless your hiding under a rock you must be quite aware of what’s going on with respect to the fourth amendment …

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Our decaying 3rd world, road infrastructure

Last week one night I was driving home from Ipswich on my way back to Wayland. I was on Rt 128 going south. What I noticed was that this major highway – this through fare of Boston and of our ‘high-tech’ corridor was so ‘patched’ with tar from an ever growing cancer of pot holes …

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70/70A Performance

Last month I posted a table of bus performance statistics for routes in Senator Brownsberger’s district.  An sharp eyed constituent noticed that the 70/70a lagged behind its counterparts in on-time performance.  I assumed that the extraordinary length (10 miles for the 70 and over 13 miles for the 70a) of the routes, negatively impacted its …

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Allston I-90 Viaduct Interchange Improvement Project Letter

Senator Brownsberger joined several of his colleagues in a letter to Secretary Davey, encouraging MassDOT to look at the Allston I-90 Viaduct Interchange Improvement Project with a broad focus. April 23, 2014 Secretary Richard A. Davey Massachusetts Department of Transportation 10 Park Plaza, Suite 4160 Boston, MA 02116 Dear Secretary Davey, We would like to …

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