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John's avatar

I was incredibly surpised and excited to hear a Democrat politician using common sense and good judgement. The Party left me many years ago, but perhaps there is some hope for the future. Education is the key to success and prosperity and it cannot happen surrounded by chaos.

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ksheidlage@gmail.com's avatar

This may seem like a nitpick, but I think one staircase for a six-story building is a mistake. Consider a fire when some residents are elderly, are parents with babies or toddlers, or twelve-year old soccer players who are temporarily on crutches. That single stairway would be inadequate.

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Dianne's avatar

Why did you vote against the impeachment? Very curious why.

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Mikki Castonguay's avatar

I don’t think it’s any surprise that the kids are not showing the progress they did before COVID. No one is. 1:1 tutoring is a great idea. But we are all lacking. And as Elton John sings in Rocket Man: ´I think it’s gonna be a long, long time..’ before any of us catch up. No sense comparing ourselves with ourselves from a different time . Learning is fluid. We’re not in a different boat than any student anywhere else in the world that lost time IN school.

Teachers love to teach. It will happen. ( maybe once the teachers also get their own selves together. They suffered too. )

But I support the fight for students anywhere in this country to get a decent education without politicians deciding that something costs too much when it has to do with education, but ready to spend billions on their own personal vendettas.

I support you and thank you for your fine efforts. We are lucky to live in Massachusetts- although Oregon has passed some cool new laws…

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Jesse Wacht's avatar

Sometimes the catastrophe in education via Corvid can lead to a solution like you implemented -- great job! Now to get that type of plan to expand the bipartisan tent to all Americans -- kids a good place to start! Similarly, a cost-of-living issue like housing supply is overdue for some aggressive action -- keep up the great bottom-up detailed work Jake.

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Frederick Tirrell's avatar

The Democratic party needs a revolution. The lack of leadership displayed by the current torch bearers is embarrassing with Trump as president. lead the way and have Markey retire. We need to either have you or Moulton as a senatorial candidate.

Also, the leadership needs to work with conservative republicans and have a short podcast with Bush and Obama sitting together and speaking as Americans , not party members but as former presidents their concern for America.

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Harry's avatar

First four are really smart. I generally agree with the sentiment of the last point, degradations to public order are a problem, but it's a mistake to have police enforcing it. There would need to be a fairly dramatic increase in training to maintain public order without resorting to violence.

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Erin Flanagan's avatar

Get on Substack with the Bulwark crew.

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Nicole's avatar

Re reading: please ensure the students aren’t being taught with Fountas & Pinnell. That so-called reading curriculum can be harmful to future learning. I’m sure you’re familiar with the podcast, “Sold a Story” from a few years ago. The tutoring idea is amazing. And, it would also be great for the teachers to have an evidence-based curriculum from the start.

Thank you for all you’re doing!

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laura oshea's avatar

Sounds great but they want to gut Medicaid because dead people don’t cost so much. Or people will get used to filing for bankruptcy because of medical debt. Or people will just kill themselves because they can’t deal with it. American Holocaust will have millions of dead Americans

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Arthur Pier's avatar

Given that one of the Democratic front runners for NYC mayor is talking about the need to raise taxes and defund the police, it’s refreshing to know that there are rational Democrats willing to present policies that the public can actually support. Thank you!

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Km's avatar

Notably, Mamdani supports extremely modest rent control measures, something which Massachusetts rejected in 1994. I can't take anybody seriously if they say we need to build more housing but aren't willing to admit that the market needs to be controlled so that people can afford a roof over their heads.

Taxes fund services that are essential to maintaining quality of life. If you want usable transit (including maintaining car-centric infrastructure!), high-quality healthcare, and any public services whatsoever (including the police!) you need taxes.

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Carole Ferguson's avatar

Well. There we are. This is FOR something; we have a real platform to offer in contrast to billionaire greed tax plans.....let's stick with this direction of what we are for.

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Marion Freedman-Gurspan's avatar

I would say plan for people and cars.. Promoting no cars seems ablist and ageist. What about those who cannot walk at all, or who are temporarily or permanently mobility limited, or who are fine on a spring day but not in extreme heat.

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Cowardly Lion's avatar

As an older woman who walks quite regularly, I think what Congressman Auchincloss is saying is that cars should not be the focal point when designing public areas where walkability is not included as a priority. It needs to be a focus when redesigning streets, sidewalks, and bike lanes.

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Shifting Places's avatar

This would receive my vote for president 💯

Well in tune how to balance our society into a rational place to live.

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