Some words of wisdom for those who come up short
In a few minutes the election will be over. In a few hours we’ll know the results. For the candidates who don’t manage to win tonight, when the dust clears and you have five minutes, listen to Eileen Sandberg’s story. Eileen’s son has some...
The most neglected campaign race
This campaign season has been particularly vigorous. The mayor’s race, the charter and various City Council and School Committee races have had a huge amount of campaign energy. Candidates and supporters have been pushing as hard as they can for months. Given...
Arts & culture and the mayoral candidates
The Newton Cultural Alliance has put together an event onTuesday, Oct 17, 7:30 PM to explore our mayoral candidates’ thoughts, policies and ideas about the city’s role in promoting arts, culture, and creativity in Newton. The event will be at the Boston...
Honoring and remembering the victims
Tonight, Fri Oct 6, Newton citizens will gather at 6:30 PM at Captain Ryan Memorial Park (beside police station) in West Newton, to honor and remember all those murdered in Las Vegas on Oct 1.
Rainer Weiss slams it in physics
Newton is on a Nobelic roll this year. Congratulations to Newton resident and MIT Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss for receiving the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics.
Without Rainer Weiss and his two
Nomad Story Slam – Election Edition
For the last three years the Newton Nomadic Theater has been running wildly popular Nomad Story Slam events. There couldn’t be a simpler format. People come, throw their name in the hat to tell a personal 5 minute story on a given theme. These nights have...
Lower Falls homeboy scores Nobel Prize
The Newton Lower Falls listserv was abuzz this morning with the announcement that Lower Falls’ own Michael Rosbash will be sharing this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine with two colleagues – Jeffrey Hall and Michael Young. The crew won...Yes campaign takes umbrage at Council’s plan
The “Yes For a New Charter” folks released a strongly worded statement today saying the the City Council’s legislation to change the charter via a home rule petition “is meant to confuse the public and obstruct a years-long democratic...
Ward One candidate sound off here
It’s just not right for a sitting incumbent to refuse to engage with his/her challengers. If so, then I think the best course of action is to assume that only those that are appearing in public forums are the only ones actually running for office … and to...
Homemade election info-graphics
A sign spotted over on Watertown Street near Walnut. This enterprising citizen realized you don’t need CNN’s millions of $$ of holographic displays and video walls to do effective electoral info-graphics
What are the policy differences between the mayoral candidates?
…. and then there was two. Amy Sangiolo had clearly drawn policy differences between herself and Ruthanne Fuller and Scott Lennon. For example, she was against charter reform, they weren’t. She had clearly said that an override would be required. They...