Pat’s Newsletter Archive
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9/1/2025 - Labor Day and Women
8/30/2025 - Forums and Questionnaires
8/8/2025 - Starvation
7/26/2025 - Thursday: the day that was
6/18/2025 - HOUSING - Secrets of Housing 1
6/2/2025 - Local Mostly for Somerville
5/28/2025 - EDUCATION - Graduation Requirements
4/25/2025 - What’s high school for?
4/15/2025 - Tax Week
3/31/2025 - Deportations
3/21/2025 - Miscellany including resistance
3/12/2025 - Rules, Transparency, Is MA blue?, Saturday
2/24/2025 - Not Necessarily the News
2/10/2025 - Everything Everywhere All at Once
12/2/2024 - Gallery
11/16/2024 - Since the Election
11/05/2024 - Election Day Poem
10/16/2024 - Questions 3 and 5
10/9/2024: Local Ballot Questions
10/2/2024: EDUCATION: Why I’m Voting Yes on Question 2
9/4/2024 - SENIORS: At Last! Long Term Care and Assisted Living Bill!
9/2/2024 - LABOR: Gompers on Labor Day
8/21/2024 - End of Formal Sessions: Frustration and Hope
8/12/2024 -HOUSING: Shelter Crisis
8/7/2024 - PAY EQUITY: Bill Signing, Invitation, Correction
7/28/2024 - PAY EQUITY: Wage Transparency, Guns and ...
7/12/2024 - HOUSING: More Housing: Necessary but not enough or soon enough
7/8/2024 - HOUSING: Senate Passes Housing Bond Bill6/22/2024 - ENVIRONMENT: Plastics!
6/18/2024 - And Now for Something Completely Different (OPENAIR CIRCUS)
5/20/2024 - Budget
5/18/2024 - No News is Bad News. (LOCAL NEWS)
4/24/2024 - HEALTH: Health or Wealth?
3/25/2024 - EDUCATION: Early Education
3/4/2024 - HOUSING: Rent Stabilization 2
2/6/2024 - HOUSING: Rent Stabilization for Somerville?
1/21/2024 - HOUSING: Who’s buying homes?
1/8/2024 - New Years Resolutions
11/03/2023 - WOMEN: Senate passes menstrual equity bill
10/25/2023 - PAY EQUITY: Pay transparency passes Senate
10/15/2023 - Another week that was
10/4/2023 - TAXES AND SPENDING: Tax Package
9/12/2023 - Rescheduled: Garden Party
9/10/2023 - Please join us Sept 13! more info!
7/6/2023 - TAXES AND SPENDING: Quo vadis redux
6/21/2023 - That was the week that was
6/8/2023 - TAXES AND SPENDING: Salads, Taxes, Budget
6/3/2023 - SPENDING: Inside the Budget Process
5/26/2023 - Salad Party June 10!
5/19/2023 - SENIORS: Senior Tax Deferral and more
5/1/2023 - TAXES AND SPENDING: Quo vadis? Tax cuts vs. spending 4
4/25/2023 - TAXES AND SPENDING: Caveat Emptor: tax cuts or services 3
4/18/2023 - TAXES AND SPENDING: Cui Bono? Tax Cuts vs Spending
4/10/2023 - TAXES AND SPENDING: Vox Populi: Tax Cuts or Service
3/14/2023 - PAY EQUITY: Equal Pay
1/14/2023 - New Year News, including “affordability”
12/5/2022 - SENIORS: Caregiver Crisis
9/24/2022 - EDUCATION: MCAS graduation requirement raised
8/31/2022- TRANSPORTATION: Trouble with a capital T: August 2022
8/21/2022- Invitation
8/3/2022- SPENDING: All at Once 3: The budget
7/29/2022- All at Once 2: Climate and more
7/27/2022- Everything at Once 1: Tuesday
7/12/2022- Three Weeks
6/3/2022- SPENDING: Senate Budget
5/15/2022- PUBLIC SAFETY: Drivers' Licenses
5/3/2022 - WOMEN: RIP Roe?
4/21/2022 - TRANSPORTATION: Fare-Free Buses
3/28/2022 - TRANSPORTATION: Green Line arrives in Union Square\
3/6/2022 - WOMEN: Menstrual Equity bill passed in Senate
2/20/2022 - LABOR: Our Work on Unemployment Insurance
2/13/2022 - LABOR: Unemployment “Overpayments”
1/12/2022 - Re-Election
12/7/2021 - Media Melange
11/17/2021 - ENVIRONMENT: River News: Good, Bad and Ugly
10/29/2021 - HOUSING: TOPA: Preserving Homes and Affordability
10/19/2021 - HOUSING: Home Ownership Down: Prices and Rents Up
9/8/2021 - LABOR: Labor Day
8/18/2021 - HOUSING: Evictions/Foreclosures: The Emergency Isn’t Over
8/2/2021- SENIORS: VNA Senior Living
7/8/2021 - News You Can Use
7/3/2021 - Swimming
6/30/2021 - TRANSPORTATION: Saving Lives with Transportation
6/6/2021 - Veterans
5/1/2021 - EDUCATION: More on Education
4/20/2021 - EDUCATION: Education Short Subjects
4/12/2021 - EDUCATION: Young Leaders’ Voices
4/3/2021 - EDUCATION: Less Testing, More Learning: MCAS This Spring
3/27/2021 - LABOR: Unemployment, Emergency Paid Sick Time
2/24/2021 - COVID: Who’s Next?
2/19/2021 - COVID: The Contagion Next Time
2/7/2021 - COVID: Vaccination Tips
2/1/2020 - COVID, PRISONS, SENIORS: Vax Frustration, Medical Parole, Future of Aging
1/30/2021 - COVID: Vaccination Frustration
1/16/2021 - Virtual Soup
1/13/2021 - The Longest Night: Last day of session: CSO’s, Laura’s Law, Climate Change, Housing Protections, Campus Sexual Assault, Flag and Seal, Economic Development, Transportation Bond
12/28/2020 - HOUSING: Evictions and Protections
12/23/2020 - Vetoes, Overrides, Eviction Protections, Health Care
12/4/2020 - Budget, Restaurants
12/2/2020 - PUBLIC SAFETY: Final Police Reform Bill
11/24/2020 - SPENDING: Finally a Budget!
11/6/2020 - HOUSING: Evictions 2
11/2/2020 - HOUSING: Evictions 1
10/27/2020 - LABOR: Unemployment Insurance Supplement Signed
10/23/2020 - HEALTH CARE: Laura’s Law
10/2/2020 - HOUSING: Evictions and Foreclosures
9/25/2020 - What You’ve Been Telling Me
07/29/2020 - LABOR: Pandemic Unemployment Update
07/26/2020 - EDUCATION: Re-Opening and Schools
07/15/2020 - PUBLIC SAFETY: Reform, Shift Build: Police Bill
07/08/2020 - HOUSING: BAD AND GOOD HOUSING NEWS
07/01/2020 - PAY EQUITY: Our Pay Equity Bill Worked!
06/07/2020 - PUBLIC SAFETY: Ending Police Violence
05/29/2020 - SENIORS: Breaking News: Nursing Homes & More
05/18/2020 - insurance deadline and more
05/12/2020 - This Week's Hearings
05/06/2020 - PUBLIC SAFETY: DOC
04/30/2020 - SENIORS: Good news on nursing homes and PUA
04/22/2020 - HOUSING, HEALTH CARE: evictions; health insurance
04/14/2020 - town hall, UI, help wanted
04/09/2020 - LABOR: unemployment news
04/07/2020 - Small Business Resources
04/04/2020 - LABOR: Unemployment update
03/21/2020 - COVID: COVID, unemployment, sick leave, small business
03/15/2020 - COVID: Covid-19
01/22/2020 - SENIORS: Saving the Jeanne Jugan Residence
04/01/2019 - LABOR, SENIORS: My bills about labor and older people
03/25/2019 - New committees
03/24/2019 - SENIORS: Help save seniors' homes
02/15/2019 - LABOR: 2.13? 4.35? Or One Fair Wage?