Defending our critical infrastructure from increased flood risks requires supporting the agencies that own infrastructure with adequate funding.
Agency efforts to assess flood risk
Many public agencies are taking steps to evaluate flood risk exposures due to climate change and set plans in motion. Much remains to be done!
Planning for Rising Seas — Lay of the Land
Considering flood risks out to the 20 foot contour appears to be responsible over the next 100 years. The good news is that careful risk analysis is happening across many agencies.
Safe injection facilities save lives, can provide bridge to treatment
Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan, co-chair of the Hampshire HOPE opioid prevention coalition run out of the Northampton Health Department, pens an op-ed in the Daily Hampshire Gazette about his openness to supervised injection facilities
Belmont High School
Belmont is approaching a decision to rebuild its single most important public asset: Its high school. Now is the time for community members to begin paying close attention to this project which is critical to the town’s future.
Lift up, or lock up?
Senator Brownsberger joined Senator Julian Cyr of the Cape & Islands District for a discussion on the criminal justice reform bill with the Cape Cod Times‘ Editorial Board.