The Governor just signed into law our major energy bill for this session. It’s significant legislation, and a hard fought compromise among competing interests within the energy industry. But we’ll need to do much more if we are to achieve our carbon reduction goals and that will remain a central concern of mine.
Neighborhood Solar Group Buy Program Announcement
Community solar opportunity.
Belmont Staycation 2016 is here!
Staycation is a new program of the Belmont Citizens Forum to encourage residents to discover new activities right here at home (and avoid vacation air travel). Please, take the 5-minute Staycation survey to help with our research on how Belmont residents plan vacations. We at BCF hope to learn a lot this year so we can spread the word during vacation planning …
FY17 Veto Overrides
The Senate took the following votes to override the Governor’s FY17 Vetoes: The Senate voted to override the following vetoes: 0320-0003: Supreme Judicial Court Administration Reduce by: $87,621 Reduce to: $8,674,528 Senate vote: 33-6 0320-0010: Suffolk County Supreme Judicial Court Clerks Office Reduce by: $15,677 Reduce to: $1,552,058 Senate vote: 36-3 0321-1504: CPCS Attorney Salaries …
Final “Uber” Bill
Late Sunday night, the legislature passed a compromise bill to regulate Transportation Networking Companies like Uber and Lyft. Here are some of the major components of the H.4570: An oversight department within the Department of Public Utilities is created, funded by a surcharge on the companies. TNC vehicles are subject to annual inspection, which can …
Shared Parenting
Shared parenting makes sense, but there is no consensus on whether our divorce law needs to be changed.