Belmont’s representative to the Logan Community Advisory Committee (CAC) reports on a recent implementation of a RNAV flight path system in Phoenix that has caused noise problems similar to those now occurring at Logan International Airport.
Unisex bathrooms-Safety for children
Please support HD 545. We should not allow young teenage boys, who simply believe they are girls, to use the girls room, play and compete on girls sports teams-as girls-and to use the girls locker room.It is not fair and it is not safe.
Blizzard News
As a legislator, I receive updates from the Department of Public Safety. These updates detail weather events and emergency response actions across the state. I’ve posted them here as they come in. Some are pasted in and some are just posted as links.
The New Jim Crow
As Senate Chair of the state legislature’s Judiciary Committee, it is my top personal priority to lighten the footprint of the criminal justice system on communities of color. Even in Massachusetts, where I believe that most police leaders take an enlightened approach to community policing — certainly, our own police chief and District Attorney Ryan do — the New Jim Crow is a real problem.
Cosponsor the revised Mass. Trust Act
I’m calling to urge Will to co-sponsor the Mass. Trust Act, which I believe will be voted on tomorrow/Friday, Jan. 23. I’m a resident of Watertown, on the Steering Committee of Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice and the Environment.
Senate Adopts New Rules, Reflecting Transparency and Openness, for 2015-16 Session
This is the earliest the rules have been adopted by the Senate since they moved to a two year session in 1995. The new rules reflect the priorities of openness and transparency for Senate business that Senate President Stanley Rosenberg (D-Amherst) promised in his inaugural Senate address on January 7th.