Dan Dunn

xkcd.com delivers another gem.  Make sure you let your mouse hover over the comic image and read the tooltip.

I take notes during Town Meeting. They are not official in any way. As I listen to people speak, I scribble notes. I’m sure that, at times, I mishear or misunderstand the speaker, but my notes represent what I hear at the time. I then publish the notes every night after the meeting. I do […]

(Black text is mostly objective, red text is mostly subjective in nature.) Finance Committee met, as is customary, at 7:30 before Town Meeting. John Bilafer spoke to FinCom about it’s recommendation of no action on Article 26. I missed the very beginning so I’m not sure if he proposed a wording change or just a […]

Annie LaCourt kindly provided a copy of her State of the Town address.  You can read it here.

I take notes during Town Meeting. They are not official in any way. As I listen to people speak, I scribble notes. I’m sure that, at times, I mishear or misunderstand the speaker, but my notes represent what I hear at the time. I then publish the notes every night after the meeting. I do […]

An untenured professor in Boston, apparently directed by college administrators to “engage” students about the massacre at Virginia Tech, did exactly that. As he relates the story, he “opened the discussion by summarizing nonviolent philosophies before holding up a marker and asking the class to acknowledge that it was not a weapon.”   Nicholas Winset […]

China brushes up on its English in preparation for the Olympics (the picture is worth a thousand words). Now with less spitting and swearing!

But it’s pouring out.  So I’m reading sports blogs instead.  Ballhype points to this quality post from Mnookin on Deadspin.  I wish I had seen that game.

I’m not on the ballot this year – town meeting is a three year term, and I won last year. I’m sitting here reading the Arlington list, reading all the thoughts and opinions about candidates, reading the pleas, the endorsements, and the criticisms, and I’m excited.  This is the way elections should be.  There is […]

(Black text is mostly objective, red text is mostly subjective in nature.) Tonight was the last meeting of FinCom before Town Meeting. (FinCom meets for 30 minutes before every town meeting session). First up was Superintendant Nate Levenson and CFO Susan Mazzarella to review the proposed School budget. Levenson walked through the budget rationale for […]