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All about the 2007 & 2005 Boston City Council elections

joe — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:51:39 +0000

Adam at Universal Hub has a comprehensive post on Tuesday’s city council election.

Score one for the bloggers!

Update: Brighton Centered posts scans of Globe sidebar on candidates. Bloggers 2, boston.com 0.

It is very difficult to wrap your head around complicated issues like regional climate change policy, but I’m giving it a shot

joe — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 02:16:45 +0000

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.

The rest of the upcoming election

joe — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:13:14 +0000

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.