Barbara Davis
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Holbrook, MA school committee chair; Town Meeting member; Chair, Town Scholarship Committee; Mass Assoc of School Committees Division 3 Chair; MASC Life Member; occasional bread baker; happily retired. #maedu she/her
Tisch College at Tufts also has a great website that breaks down the ballot questions in an easy-to-understand format. tischcollege.tufts.edu/take-action/...
Voters' Guide to 2026 Massachusetts Ballot Questions
To help voters understand policy issues in Massachusetts, the Center for State Policy Analysis (cSPA) provides non-partisan research on all state ballot questions. cSPA's findings are summarized here;...
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Massachusetts has an unusually large number of ballot questions this November. Here is my hot take on them...
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September 9, 2026
Yesterday, at a White House event honoring those who sacrificed their lives on 9/11, President Donald Trump went off script and claimed he had taken a crew downtown “right after this happened.
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Honored to be a recipient of a UMass Boston 2026 Beacon Award for Community Service. www.alumni.umb.edu/s/1355/22/in...
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Early bird pricing for the Annual MASC MASS Joint Conference ends this week! Be sure you register to join us in Danvers November 4-6! www.masc.org/conference/
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Annual ConferenceNovember 4-6, 2026 DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Boston North Shore | Danvers, MA Navigating Complex Times: Centering on Students The three information-packed days will be focused on the...
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Members, as you're getting your back-to-school calendar update, please be sure you're including our fall events, including upcoming Learning Lunches, Charting the Course, and Division meetings. Find it all: www.masc.org/events/
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Fun fact: Dolly Parton spent decades quietly funding band uniforms and instruments at Black high schools across the South - never once putting her name on it. No headlines, no fanfare — just help, given because it was needed. Wonderful Heart ♥️ RIP Dolly ❤️
Dolly Parton did all the good she could, for all the people she could, for as long as ever she could. From her legendary songwriting to the Imagination Library—which sent 1 million books a month to children across the country—she was the best of America. Dolly, we'll miss your great heart.
And I am going to remind you again, that this did not *only* remove them from SNAP—which is bad enough!—but it *also* takes them out of the count for SNAP; that is one of the counts for 1. Community Eligiblity for school nutrition and 2. Low income count for state school aid (ch.70) #MAEdu
MassLive@masslive.bsky.social · 3w agoNew SNAP rules have stripped food aid from nearly 60,000 Mass. children
Once again I got to add items from my garden to tonight's dinner. Patiently waiting for more cucumbers 🥒 and the watermelons 🍉 to grow and ripen.