With more tough news of federal funding cuts being announced from the Trump administration, the Healey-Driscoll administration is condemning the administration’s illegal move to terminate $106 million in K-12 education grant funding for Massachusetts.
So, state legislators, I’m asking the question: Why are you so reluctant to let us in the room where it happens?
Of course, the responsibilities we all have to our family, friends, community, and our work will always take a place of precedence in our lives. However, those should not always trump the responsibility to ourselves and our own well-being.
Food, housing (both cost and inventory) and heating costs are among basic living expenses putting a squeeze on middle class families. Meanwhile, school districts and departments are threatening significant reductions and funding for roads has remained stagnant while inflation has not.
This is all a very longwinded way of introducing myself as the new executive editor for Reminder Publishing. It’s hard to explain what I plan to do without first explaining where I’ve been. I suppose a much simpler way to put it is I’m a news man and I always have been, whether I knew it or not.