We're baaaaack!!!... with a new TV crew and lots of news about pool testing, vaccines and the start of Fall 2 sports! @FHSPantherbook @FranklinPSNews @FranklinHS @FranklinMattershttps://youtu.be/F2Iaw57MTE0 via @YouTube
The FPS DLI launched a YouTube channel to help staff access video resources that will enhance their use of technology. #FPSDigitalLearning
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| Franklin DLI: launch a YouTube channel |
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| Memory Cafe' Friday, March 5 at 2 PM |
"ARE YOU A Massachusetts resident frustrated to be still waiting for your COVID shot? Gov. Charlie Baker has a message: blame the feds.
“I think it’s unfair that I can’t currently vaccinate everyone in Massachusetts who wants to get vaccinated, but it’s a fact. It’s a reality. Until there’s more vaccine we’re going to be playing this waiting game,” Baker said at a press conference Thursday after touring a Lawrence vaccination site for seniors.
Throughout the press conference, Baker repeatedly returned to the problem of a lack of vaccine supply. Baker said the state “could easily do twice the capacity we will do” if it received more vaccines. "
Gov Baker's press conference -> https://youtu.be/3spp9CUWPcw
"Signs are pointing to a sizable pandemic baby bust"
"The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown the country into an economic recession and an unprecedented restructuring of our work and social lives. Early on, some likened the public health crisis to a blizzard, imagining that people would stay home, cozy up with their romantic partners and make babies.These playful visions have given way to a more sobering reality: The pandemic’s serious disruption of people’s lives is likely to cause “missing births” — potentially a lot of them. Add these missing births to the country’s decade-long downward trend in annual births and we can expect consequential changes to our economy and society in the years to come. Unfortunately, there are no easy fixes."
"Newly confirmed US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Thursday the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted significant gaps in broadband Internet access across the country, and vowed to take a “bold” approach to expand that service.In her first television interview as commerce secretary, the former Rhode Island governor said on MSNBC that her first order of business is getting Americans back to work after a year where unemployment skyrocketed because of restrictions implemented to curb the virus.“We need to go fast and we need to go big,” Raimondo said, referring to broadband access. She called it an equity issue."
"The failures in these cases all originated in state courts. Under our system, when a state violates the constitutional protections of a fair trial, the federal courts are required to intervene. The right to judicial review of an unlawful detention, also known as the writ of habeas corpus, is enshrined in the Constitution and dates back to 13th-century England.But in 1996 Congress took a chisel to habeas corpus with the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA). Attorneys who represent people challenging their convictions, such as Mississippi’s Humphreys McGee, say the AEDPA and the Supreme Court rulings that followed have suffocated federal review. “It’s been a 25-year thicket of real through-the-looking-glass s---," McGee says. And the law’s repeal or reform is long overdue."
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| train station discussed |
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| modification to tasting room bylaw and food trucks approved |
"Due to limited federal supply and a large number of previously scheduled second-dose appointments, first dose appointments are no longer available today for Fenway Park, Gillette Stadium, or the Reggie Lewis Center. Please check other locations for availability."
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| Mass.gov: "Please check other locations for availability" |
FM #478 = This is the Franklin Matters radio show, number 478 in the series.
This session of the radio show shares the 4th Annual Franklin, MA School Committee Legislative Forum held on Tuesday, Mar 2, 2021.
The meeting was conducted in a virtual format: School Committee members, key guests, and the public were all remote via conference bridge, to adhere to the ‘social distancing’ requirements of this pandemic period.
Senate President Karen Spilka, Senator Becca Rausch, and State Representative Jeffrey Roy participated in this 4th annual Forum
Links to the meeting agenda and my notes are included in the show notes. The recording runs about 77 minutes, so let’s listen to the Legislative Forum held Mar 2, 2021. Audio file = https://player.captivate.fm/episode/8706a782-eddb-49cf-a655-1389554a446b
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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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| screen capture of the Legislative Forum 03/02/21 |
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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| screen capture of the Community Preservation Meeting 3/2/21 |
"AFTER WEEKS OF pressure from Massachusetts teachers — and one day after President Biden urged giving educators priority for vaccines — Gov. Charlie Baker said teachers, school staff, and early educators will be eligible to sign up for COVID-19 vaccines in Massachusetts beginning March 11.
But Baker warned that vaccine supplies will continue to be scarce, so appointments may be hard to get.
“People will get their vaccines, but people will need to be patient unless there’s a big change in available supply in the near future,” Baker said, speaking to the press on Wednesday morning after touring the West Parish Elementary School in Gloucester, which was celebrating 101 days of in-person learning this year. "
"In an effort to organize the safest athletics experience possible for our student-athletes, the Hockomock League will be following the most recent guidance that was issued by the MA Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs: “Spectators are limited to 2 adults (parents/guardians or chaperones) and siblings of a participating player.”Only home spectators will be allowed to attend league games during the Fall II season. All away spectators are strongly discouraged from traveling to away games, especially since they will not be allowed into the host school’s facility when they arrive. The method by which each host school chooses to admit, or to not admit, their HOME fans, will be decided at the individual District level.Our schools are making every effort to livestream as many home games as possible this season."
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| Hockomock League Spectator Policy for the Fall II |
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| Recap of the Board of Health meeting - Mar 3, 2021 |
"TAX COLLECTIONS exceeded the Baker administration’s expectations by $372 million in February and surpassed the total of collections in February 2020, a development that positions the state to end this budget year having collected more tax revenue than it did last year.
The Department of Revenue said it collected $1.874 billion in taxes last month, $359 million, or 23.7 percent, more than what was collected in February 2020 and $372 million or 24.8 percent more than what the department had been expecting."
"In the Atlantic Ocean, Subtle Shifts Hint at Dramatic DangersThe warming atmosphere is causing an arm of the powerful Gulf Stream to weaken, some scientists fear."
"IT’S ONE OF THE MIGHTIEST RIVERS you will never see, carrying some 30 times more water than all the world’s freshwater rivers combined. In the North Atlantic, one arm of the Gulf Stream breaks toward Iceland, transporting vast amounts of warmth far northward, by one estimate supplying Scandinavia with heat equivalent to 78,000 times its current energy use. Without this current — a heat pump on a planetary scale — scientists believe that great swathes of the world might look quite different."
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| screen capture of the Zoom session |
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| Community Preservation Committee holds inaugural meeting and organizes |
On the Town side
5:00 PM - Board of Health https://www.franklinmatters.org/2021/03/franklin-ma-board-of-health-agenda-mar.html
5:45 PM - Economic Development Subcommittee https://www.franklinmatters.org/2021/03/economic-development-subcommittee.html
7:00 PM - Town Council https://www.franklinmatters.org/2021/02/franklin-ma-town-council-meeting-mar-3.html
On the School side
4"30 PM - Budget subcommittee https://www.franklinmatters.org/2021/02/franklin-public-schools-ma-budget-sub.html
Informative meetings on tap Wednesday
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