Adam at Universal Hub has a comprehensive post on Tuesday's city council election.
Boston.com has two year old articles.
Score one for the bloggers!
Update: Brighton Centered posts scans of Globe sidebar on candidates. Bloggers 2, boston.com 0.
I could have sworn the whole Net Neutrality thing was taken care of last year, but it looks like I wasn't paying enough attention -- AT&T, etc. are still conspiring to transform the Internet into a crippled, pay-to-play service for distributing approved content to consumers.
Fortunately Free Press is coordinating a ton of comments to the FCC, and has a dandy site of them. For example, a quick scan of Boston-area comments showed this one from local educator Kevin Driscoll. Thus inspired, I've added my own, and I'll bet a bunch of you out there have dandy stories of your own. It's pretty fun seeing your name, title, and town rendered in fake handwriting font after all.
Then let it be this one.
(via Boing Boing)
According to the news at Rodrigo y Gabriela's site, too dangerous to be allowed into the US:
ATO Records recording artist Rodrigo y Gabriela will unfortunately be unable to honor their upcoming American Langerado performance this Sunday March 13th. Due to new U.S. immigration policies and procedures, guitarist Rodrigo Sanchez's visa renewal has unexpectedly been delayed.
ATO Records and artist management are diligently working to expedite and resolve this issue. We will keep you abreast of the situation as information becomes available.
So much for Tuesday's show at the Roxy. Hope it's all worked out soon.
Update - it's back on, now for April 17th.
I was talking to a friend today about our collective sense of dread over climate change. We know it's happening; we know it's probably the biggest problem facing any children we may be lucky enough to have, if not ourselves in a few years; and we know that all kinds of things need to be happening both on personal and societal levels to improve the situation.
Given that very recent conversation, it's interesting to observe that trying to get through Environment Northeast's recently released Climate Change Roadmap for New England and Eastern Canada gets my eyes glazed over in no time at all. I truly believe that this is vitally important stuff, but I'm sure having a hard time wrapping my head around it.
Part of the problem is that the solutions outlined in this roadmap all require action at a higher level than the individual - legislatures, executives, and other institutions. Not belonging to any such group, it's a little tough to relate. What I can do, besides the various personal efforts that I will refrain from boring either of my readers with, is nag my elected officials. According to this Globe article, the Patrick administration is on board with the roadmap, so I'm planning to start bugging my elected officials to see what they've committed to on this issue.
As soon as I make it through the roadmap.
I have nothing further to add about the high profile portions of the upcoming Massachusetts election. My thoughts about the less widely covered parts:
Green-Rainbow endorsed Jill Stein for Secretary of State, because the person in charge of state elections ought to show up for his own debates.
The brand-new Working Families party endorsed Rand Wilson for Auditor. Fascinating interview with Wilson here.
On a related topic, I'm voting yes on question two. Good discussion in the interview above; an example of how it's worked in New York here.
Also voting yes on question three, for these reasons.