Special evants and Hearings the first week of March mostly at Statehouse but occasionally interesting items show up about
town.
Monday March 3 2008
noon
Mass Alliance of Boys and Girls luncheon
noon Great Hall
School Based Health Centers
luncheon Nurses Hall
Mental Health and substance abuse issues
1130AM
forum Harvard University
6pm will be streamed live
iop.harvard.edu/events_forum.html,
6pm JFK St Cambridge
TOPIC GET THIS:
THE POWER OF UNREASONABLE PEOPLE
SPONSORED BY THE KENNEDY SCHOOL
Social entrepreneurship..social
policy
noon Harvard Kennedy School again
the NEW MEDIA, William Kristel
noon Shorenstein Ctr of Press
Tuesday March 4, 2008
voting day Texas Ohio RI
Primaries
Also four local elections..how many
repubs can we elect??
Committee on Veterans
RM 437 11AM
Bill on employment workmens comp
this
is not even on the House screen yet
posted Mon mar3 08
exec session after.. exec'd out most of the bills from
the past two hearings to study
taped this hearing..
Judiciary hearing
1PM A 1
gotta be there..
check bill listing
www.mass.gov/legis/comm/dlmar04.htm,
House Broadcast taped this hearing Do not plan to see this on Broadband for at least
3 weeks but call Don Coleman
for more info in Di Masi's office.
1PM to 12AM
I taped about 9 hours of this..catch of the day, video news
I only taped the transgender presentations. I also audio taped for
cd an audio version of whole hearing.
This hearing the worst organized
hearing I have ever seen. Three different brochures were
distributed with
different bills on each of them and Mass Resistance
on the last tape testified two of their bills had been removed.
People were allowed to talk on all the bills they wanted so each person took
up 3 minutes for each bill they spoke
on...The non T bills were heard first
however and so all waiting to speak on 1722 hung out relentlessly. It was at least
4pm
before the real topics began.. Tpeople had
30 panels, and most of the opposition waited until late at
night to
testify. Brian Camenker of Massresistance submitted a 135 page
report against passing the bill 1722.
I believe 500 people showed up and about 100 left early we
would have been still testifying at 5AM had they stayed.
posted 3 5 08 J Aldrich
The room was too hot too closed up and too small, people were sprawled
on floors in the
halls outside the hearing room until 6PM and many disabled
were forced to leave as the time was too difficult to withstand.
This hearing
should have been put in Gardner Auditorium for sure. It violated every code
there is for meeting
in a state building. Media were insulted immediately and asked
to move to the side when the room was packed to the rafters
with public testifiers who
were not going to give up their spots..Eventually the doors were removed between A1
and
A2 and the sprawl extended to that area. It was still grossly insufficient. The end
was worse than the beginning
as the staff for food had been gone two hours and no
one had adequate water or food. It is an actual miracle that
no one fainted in this
public abusive arena.
Wednesday March 5, 2008
Revenue Committee Hearing
10AM B 2
always packed and the smallest room..
H4499 Corporate Tax Policies
Today it was announced
that
there was a Housing Hearing
in Gardner Auditorium
which will be discussing the 50,000
housing units
in the Commonwealth.
A subject that should have been given
respect by announcing it correctly.
As I was in
yesterday, the docket room simply
did not have this hearing on record.
this is not on the house webcast
screen
either and the scramble
continues to find the public hearings
the public is supposed to know about
before
48 hours.
I did not travel in as I could not get
home last night due to no trains
out of Boston. It was
simply too
difficult to pull that one off after the
ordeal on the 4th in Judiciary.
posted 4 5 08 J aldrich
249pm
5PM to 7PM
NEW BEDFORD RAID ANIVERSARY
public testimony
287 Columbus Ave
Boston
STATE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM
exhibit Nurses Hall
3pm
Thursday March 6, 2008
Senate Formal Session
Committee on Elder Affairs
10AM rm 222
Atty Gen will speak on abuse and financial exploitation
Saturday March 8, 2008
DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE HEARING
Bunker Hill Community College
11 AM
