Survey: Your feelings on the roads override (and those other overrides, too)

First of all: check out the new Bloggingbelmont.com header graphic. I got tired of the standard Google maps graphic, so I used my handy Powershot to take this panorama pic from the Belmont Center train platform a week or so…

Belmont property values down 6%?

I’m a big fan of the new breed of Web based real estate tracking sites like Zillow.com, Redfin.com and the like. They’re incredibly powerful tools for studying home values, researching towns and so on. The amount of information they consolidate…

(Updated) Town Meeting II, Electric Boogaloo!

We’re back in session here to finish up seven items left over from Monday evening’s Town Meeting. When we left off, 1) my laptop battery had run out and 2) there was an amendment proposed to item #10, an omnibus…

New campaign to support tech tools for teaching

Hey all. I just got an e-mail message from Lynne Polcari over at the Foundation for Belmont Education. Lynne’s a B2 reader and wanted to make others who read this blog aware of an upcoming event on May 6th (Tuesday)…

Live blogging Town Meeting: 300 people, 27 articles — Fun!

7:45PM live blogging here– starting a bit late here and with a different feel under new moderator Mike Widmer, with both an ecumenical prayer (not sure how I feel about that), the saying of the Pledge of Allegiance (eh) and…

Open Meeting Laws: Just because you’re paranoid…

Remember that old saying “just because you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you”? Well, that was the saying that ran through my mind after hearing back from Middlesex Assistant DA Robert Bender. I wrote to the…