Pat’s Newsletter Archive

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• 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?