Here's my New School Committee Blog

Steve Roix for Ward 1  School Committee website.

My new blog, on my new website.

Some recent press about this year's Ward 1 School Committee election campaign.

Some less recent press.

Snowed in with Kids movies

"Do you realize you guys don't know _anything_ about life outside this zoo?"

"Well come on...that's just one subject."

T conductors turn to iPhones for updates (via the Boston Globe)

I love that the MBTA, despite they're many structural antiquities, seems to be embracing technology when possible to improve service for riders.  I'm a big fan of the bus tracking apps, which have really turned me into a bus rider, where I used to avoid the less-frequent-than train buses like the plague, (particularly after several experiences waiting for an hour for a weekend bus that was supposed to come every half hour).  I know they've started rolling out iphone ticketing on the commuter lines, and I'm looking forward to trying this out when I take my next train ride to Worcester or Lowell - the two places I most frequently travel on commuter train (and by most frequently travel I mean a couple of times a year).

January is the cruelest month (via NYT)

This has been an especially crazy January for me.  The weather hasn't even been particularly cold in Boston until the past week or two, but I do think the lack of daylight affects me in the negative.   Perhaps I should view the glass half-full:  the winter months make me appreciate the summer more.

Also, thinking about cosmic and cataclysmic events helps remind me that it's not all about me:

The current theory that accounts for all the evidence is that a Mars-size asteroid hit the Earth over four billion years ago. The mélange of Earth’s crust and asteroid debris ejected into space, ultimately congealing as the moon and tilting the primordial Earth.

With that great cataclysm came our seasons, months and the duration of days. Our internal timepieces, and some of the maladies we suffer, lie as artifacts of this moment in our planet’s history. 

via NYTimes

I know I'm big time when I see my name in an editorial rather than a regular news article. (via the Somerivlle Journal)

 Via the Somerville Journal; as previously disclaimed: reposted in it's entirety without any permission whatsoever, inasmch as nobody reads this blog and the Somerville Journal articles disappear from their website after some period of time.   I have an interest in this, as its subject took much of my time and focus for the past month and a half of my life!  (is this more legal now that it's italicized?  No?  rats!)

Somerville —

After a month of applications and interviews, Ward 1 has a new School Committee member. We’re impressed with Ben Echevarria’s resume and his commitment to the community, and we think he’ll represent the ward well in the remainder of this term. But we’re less impressed with the non-democratic process that put him in office. It needs further review before it’s used again to fill vacancies.

Somerville's Ward 1 gets new School Committee candidate after tie vote (via Somerville Journal)

Via the Somerville Journal; reposted in it's entirety without any permission whatsoever, inasmch as nobody reads this blog and the Somerville Journal articles disappear from their website after some period of time.   I have an interest in this, as its subject took much of my time and focus for the past month and a half of my life!

Somerville —

After a brand-new process, a ward-wide search, and three public meetings, the School Committee voted 5-3 for candidate Ben Echevarria to fill the vacant Ward 1 seat for the rest of the year.