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| Have you used the Suggestion Box? | Town of Franklin MA |
1. ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE CHAIR
This meeting is being recorded by Franklin TV and shown on Comcast channel 11 and Verizon Channel 29. This meeting may be recorded by others.
2. CITIZEN COMMENTS
Citizens are welcome to express their views for up to five minutes on a matter that is not on the agenda. The Council will not engage in a dialogue or comment on a matter raised during Citizen Comments. The Town Council will give remarks appropriate consideration and may ask the Town Administrator to review the matter.
3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
10. LEGISLATION FOR ACTION
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| Franklin, MA: Town Council Meeting - Mar 3, 2021 - Agenda |
It warms me. It warms me not.
by Pete Fasciano, Executive Director 02/28/2021
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| March On! (Franklin TV photo) |
FM #475 = This is the Franklin Matters radio show, number 475 in the series.
This session of the radio show shares my conversation with Kristi Morin of the Working Moms Social Club based in Franklin. We had our conversation via conference bridge to adhere to the ‘social distancing’ requirements of this pandemic period.
We talk about:
Links to the Working Moms Social Club web and Facebook pages are included in the show notes. The recording runs about 16 minutes, so let’s listen to my conversation with Kristi. Audio file = https://player.captivate.fm/episode/ea6273a6-982c-4bc3-b198-bf9110c38989
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Working Moms Social Club web page = https://www.workingmomsocialclub.org/
Facebook page = https://www.facebook.com/workingmomsocialclub
Email for questions, etc. = admin@workingmomsocialclub.org
Article by Warren Reynolds at 02038.com = https://02038.com/2021/02/local-moms-help-working-mothers/
We are now producing this in collaboration with Franklin.TV and Franklin Public Radio (wfpr.fm).
This podcast is my public service effort for Franklin but we can't do it alone. We can always use your help.
How can you help?
Through this feedback loop we can continue to make improvements. I thank you for listening.
For additional information, please visit Franklinmatters.org/ or www.franklin.news/
If you have questions or comments you can reach me directly at shersteve @ gmail dot com
The music for the intro and exit was provided by Michael Clark and the group "East of Shirley". The piece is titled "Ernesto, manana" c. Michael Clark & Tintype Tunes, 2008 and used with their permission.
I hope you enjoy!
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You can also subscribe and listen to Franklin Matters audio on iTunes or your favorite podcast app; search in "podcasts" for "Franklin Matters"
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| FM #475 Working Moms Social Club - 02/08/21 (audio) |
"This picture is a product of the pandemic, but also of the years leading up to it. And if half of what is happening in the for-sale market now seems straightforward — historically low interest rates and a pandemic desire for more space are driving demand — the other half is more complicated.“The supply side is really tricky,” said Benjamin Keys, an economist at the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania. “Who wants to sell a house in the middle of a pandemic? That’s what I keep coming back to. Is this a time you want to open your house up to people walking through it? No, of course not.”A majority of homeowners in America are baby boomers — a group at heightened risk from the coronavirus. If many of them have been reluctant to move out and downsize over the past year, that makes it hard for other families behind them to move in and upgrade."
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| New York Times: "Where Have All the Houses Gone?" |
The Fall 2 schedule may be found here: https://t.co/IcRCFVXkh2 or here
"The Hockomock League will continue to allow "HOME" spectators at their Fall II games; although limited to 2 parents & siblings per athlete. All will need to scan a QR code (for contact tracing purposes) & sign in upon entering. No spectators are allowed to attend scrimmage games."
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| Football and Volleyball schedule for Fall 2 season |
"Chances are it is the most influential amendment to the US constitution that you aren’t familiar with. Given its impact, it is astonishing how little the 14th amendment is discussed in public life. Americans can’t rattle it off like the first and second amendments – but its words have fundamentally shaped the modern definition of US citizenship and the principles of equality and freedom entitled to those within the country’s borders.Sitting at the crux of these key ideals, the 14th amendment is cited in more litigation than any other, including some of the US supreme court’s most well-known cases: Plessy v Ferguson, Brown v Board of Education, Loving v Virginia, Roe v Wade, Bush v Gore, Obergefell v Hodges. And because these noble notions are embedded in the 14th, it has the remarkable ability to generate both boundless hope (for the promises of that more perfect union aspired to in the constitution’s preamble) and crushing misery (for the failures to achieve such promises)."
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| Radiolab's first ever spin-off series, More Perfect |
