The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education is not only failing to lead, but affirmatively inhibiting progress in online learning.
Author Archives: Will Brownsberger
The Belmont Uplands
It’s not exactly that the bulldozers are starting their engines, but the string of appeals and long-shot funding ideas seems to be running out on the silver maple trees of the Belmont Uplands.
The 2009-2010 Session: A Mixed Bag
The two year formal legislative session, now ended, has been a mixed bag. Perhaps the best news about the session is that we got through it.
Our long term financial problems
There is a growing belief among serious economists that we, as a country, face a large and unsustainable gap between our financial resources and our financial expectations. Current deficit spending by the national government and a failure to control long term debt, pension and health care costs at all levels of government will lead to …
Official Summary of House Accomplishments in the 2009-2010 Session
Read this post for an official overview of the accomplishments of the 2009-2010 session.
Blanchard Road Update
I spoke earlier this week with Sue Clippinger, the traffic planner in Cambridge. She said that she was working on getting the application together for a truck ban on Blanchard Road. She said that she had all the necessary data at this stage. She said that she foresaw little objection in Cambridge since most of …