Level Services, Level Funding or Simply an Uphill Plod
By Bob Hertz Management (ALG) suggests fiscal 2025 budgets represent “level services”. Level compared to what benchmark? Are all services level or does the label […]
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Responses to the PRO OVERRIDE Mailer
By Corinne Hogseth Keep Acton Affordable By now, you’ve probably seen the big mailer that The Other Side had sent to households throughout Acton. One […]
Ready for an Override? – Part 2 The Sky is Not Falling
By Corinne Hogseth The point of Part 1 of this discussion was to raise awareness of a pending override that will dwarf even the debt […]
Acton Select Board Decision Establishes Dangerous Precedent
By Marty Benson The following statement is from the January 23, 2023 Select Board meeting. Tonight, I will address the Select Board’s December 19, 2023 […]
Democracy Or Tyranny
By Bob Hertz During the Acton Select Board meeting of December 5, 2022, a vote was taken to allow for reduction of citizen debate, a […]
What is Deception? A Review of One Example from the Acton Select Board
By Bob Hertz I believe we got a dose of it on October 18, 2021. Fabrications, silence, and distortions by several members of the Select […]
A Chronological Look at the Texts and Emails Regarding the Retirement of the Colonial Mascot
Organized and Introduced by Several Anonymous Concerned Citizens In the summer of 2020, COVID-19 was in our country for about three months causing sickness and death. […]
Unacceptable Omissions of Acton Select Board
By Bob Hertz Getting basic answers to simple questions should not be as hard as the Select Board (SB) seems to want it to be. […]
The DEIC Report: a Solution in Search of a Problem
By Terence Lindgren Acton Forum Introduction By Charlie Kadlec This Article is a copy of a letter written to the Acton Select Board by Terry […]
The Diversity Racket– What Next?
By Nijan Datar Now that Town Meeting has effectively given the green light to add a Diversity Officer for the Town (in addition to the […]