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She will have my vote.
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Mayor Wu
Mayor Wu has my full and enthusiastic endorsement. I hope that she can see fit to give more $$$ to the BPL and have more open streets days, especially on Newbury St and Centre St in JP.
Hollywood Squares and Streets
Hollywood Squares and Streets. NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
Unless she makes more meaningful change for BPs
I hope for another choice to get actual change....most voters don't appear to have kids in BPS even though 30% of the cities budget is spent on BPS.
what change would you expect
from people like Flynn or Kraft?
apart from charter-school-ization..
30% is low
Out here in I-495-land, schools typically take almost half of the total budget
Schools in I485 land
Are much much better than BPS.
Boston spends $1.5 BILLION...
Are taxpayers getting their money's worth?
And how many tax payers have kids in BPS?
The plan WU announced last winter was to close 1/3 to half of BPS 115 schools, the reality is they are closing 5 tops?!
Does BPS Spend Too Much?
It's really hard to know, but the metric used in this article makes an interesting point.
https://medium.com/boston-parents-schoolyard-news/does-bps-spend-too-muc...
Great reference, do you have one for outcome?
Thanks for sharing this info?
The suburbs are more successful in educating students, does anyone know of some numbers that compare investment per student to outcomes, ideally who ends up getting a job and what their income is when they are 30 for example?
My wife and are currently debating leaving Boston since BPS is such a challenge sadly.
What do you mean by outcome?
Job and income at 30? Tech/Voc schools probably have a good outcomes for that. You want your kid to be a wall street employee? Helps if they go to an Ivy and have family connections. You want good test scores? That's most highly correlated to income levels or the amount of time a schools spends teaching to the test or the selectiveness of the school. You want an educated citizen that gets along with people from all walks of life and makes the world a better place - public schools and parents that preach kindness will probably help with that.
"The suburbs are more successful at educating students"?? Depends on the outcome you're looking for. Innovative teaching can happen anywhere.
30% is high?
It sounds trite, but the funding for schools is a long-term investment that even those without children benefit from. And if you compare the school budget to that of large cities like Springfield or Worcester (almost 60% of the municipal budget), thirty percent seems almost miserly.
That's a terrible reason
To cut funding to schools. I don't have kids. I want kids to be educated so the world can continue to function.
An educated population is a concern for everyone
Well, a Senate seat will not
Well, a Senate seat will not make itself available for another four years.
Wow, deep discourse there
Why does anyone care what future offices any politician might run for in the distant future? It's the lamest reason to oppose someone.
If anything, you'd want her to set her sights on Senate or Governorship since it means she'll be more motivated to have a record of improving Boston.
I think that was its point
I think bot's snarky point was something like "of course she's running for reelection, there isn't a senate seat open" -- thereby demonstrating that it knows nothing about electoral politics.
1) Are there bots on
1) Are there bots on Universal Hub, because I thought there was a screening process. Are there legacy bots?
2) In the hierarchy of offenses doesn’t the knowing, willful dehumanizing, mistaxonomizing a Homo sapiens sapiens for an inanimate algorithm rise higher than say, willfully “misgendering” a fellow human being? Or, is calling a human a bot too hyperbolic and given cover by the pretext, excuse of “not knowing” who is a bot and conversely is willfully misgendering someone the worse offense, because gender is more intimate and personal and fraught?
Don’t give up your day job.
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What makes you think this *isn’t* their day job?
n/t
A bot is anyone who questions
A bot is anyone who questions their disastrous policy.
Okay, Rwgfy
Who is the "they" in "their"?
i don't understand this shtick
you could have said that in ten words, max
Who said anything about
Who said anything about elections?
It’s all about the elections
It’s all about the elections baby.
(Or, is it all about public service and forming a more perfect union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, and so on? It’s really hard to say with my Party (Dems.) these days. Boston politics don’t stay in Vegas.
The Plan was to take a vacant
The Plan was to take a vacant Senate seat. It went astray somehow.
Feedback loop
Now the bots are in a feedback loop.
Bot hilarity
Frelbot and Zhubot engaging with each other is hilarious. And SG's reference to rwbot is hilarious too .
Thanks to all for the entertainment.
But wait
I thought it wasn't about elections.
God, you're transparent, refug.
Not Wu, Pressley
I don't think Wu wants it, but Pressley might. They'd both be great senators though.
Pressley yes, Wu ???
Pressley has experience as a legislator, so I'm inclined to think she'd be better suited for it. It's hard to see the seat going to anyone who's not an old white dude, though, and Richie Neal probably thinks he's next in line for that seat.
Technically, kind of
She announced that at some point in the future she will announce that she will run.
No, she said it straight up on WCVB
On this Sunday’s On The Record program on WCVB, she said it straight up, and cohost Ed Harding even asked a second time to make sure.
vote against Flynn or Kraft
I have nothing against Wu, she's ok, but I'm more motivated to vote AGAINST a spineless mediocre nepo like Flynn or a rich hobbyist nepo like Kraft
I'm not supporting anyone at this point
But calling Flynn spineless is a huge stretch. He's been the loyal opposition to the administration.
One can argue that his opposition may have been misplaced on many occasions, but he's stuck his neck out on issues. The spineless would have said nothing.
The nepo thing is sort of valid, but how many voters were around when his dad left the mayor's office in 1993, or left his ambassadorship in 1997?
Don't elect any more nepos.
Don't elect any more nepos. We've already got a bunch of them appointed as city chiefs.
All local politics is
All local politics is national these days and Herrohnnor got Tom Homan’s attention.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/tom-homan-warns-boston-mayor-aga...