The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education is not only failing to lead, but affirmatively inhibiting progress in online learning.
Sales tax on alcohol – other taxes, and other consumer savings
There’s been a bit of press about the drive to repeal the sales tax on alcohol. Personally, I’m not crazy about paying an extra $1.25 on a case of Harpoon IPA. I have some questions (which I can’t find answers to on the state web site) and a suggestion. Questions: What other taxes are there …
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Save the Silver Maple Forest
Felling a small river floodplain forest in this age of global warming and annual flooding increases, nullies any wording to describe the criminality of such an the act directed against the local communities that surround Aleiwfe.March and June rains were torrential and flooded the Alewife flood plain, surrounding the silver maple forest up to the …
Save this forest
Will I know you are doing all you can to save this beautiful area – a gem in such an urban area. Why can’t the government use the money they are giving the developer, to save this area? There certainly are enough people who are passionate about this forested area so that if it were …
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.