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Barbara Davis

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Holbrook, MA school committee chair; Town Meeting member; Chair, Town Scholarship Committee; Mass Assoc of School Committees Division 3 Chair; MASC Life Member; occasional bread baker; happily retired. #maedu she/her

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November 3, 2025 At the end of her interview with President Donald J.

November 3, 2025

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*I'm

03.11.2025 20:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I' sorry you have to deal with this BS. If I lived in Worcester, you'd have my vote.

03.11.2025 20:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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November 2, 2025 Last Monday, October 27, right-wing personality Tucker Carlson interviewed white nationalist Nick Fuentes for more than two hours, mainstreaming the podcaster whose praise for Hitler, vows to kill Jew...

November 2, 2025

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November 1, 2025 Yesterday I wrote that President Donald J.

November 1, 2025

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October 31, 2025 Yesterday a reporter asked Representative Joe Neguse, a Democrat of Colorado, about the administrationโ€™s withholding of reserve funds Congress intended would fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...

October 31, 2025

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October 30, 2025 House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) continues to try to pin the upcoming catastrophic lapse in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funding on the Democrats.

October 30, 2025

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October 28, 2025 In the election of 1920, Americans handed a landslide victory to the Republicans and their presidential candidate Warren G.

October 28, 2025, with Liza Donnelly of Seeing Things:

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Sunset on I95 in MA on our way home.

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Rainbow on I95 in Portsmouth, NH on our way home.

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Foliage on our drive up to North Woodstock, NH

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Public Policy Reports: October 2025 Board of Elementary and Secondary Education meeting - masc.org The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education had their regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, October 28, 2025 in Everett. The agenda can be found online here.A recording of the meeting...

Our Public Policy update from today's #MAEdu Board of Elementary and Secondary Education meeting can now be found online here: www.masc.org/public-polic...

28.10.2025 19:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

thank you.

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October 25, 2025 Yesterday the Trump administration said it would not use any of the approximately $6 billion the U.S.

October 25, 2025

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October 23, 2025 Julia Ainsley and Didi Martinez of NBC News reported today that Immigration and Customs Enforcementโ€™s rush to get new recruits onto the street has meant they have pushed into their training program mo...

October 23, 2025

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โ€œThe Governorโ€™s Council on Readiness put forward a strong Vision of a Graduate โ€” one that values real skills like problem-solving, communication, and civic engagement. Thatโ€™s the direction we should move toward. But replacing MCAS with new end-of-course exams would take us backward.โ€ #mapoli

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Voters rejected a high-stakes test as a graduation requirement. Education activists fear the state may be planning a new one Last year, Massachusetts residents voted in a statewide referendum to end the use of high-stakes tests as a graduation requirement. This year, education activists are worried state officials may be tr...

Good write-up here:
flipsidenews.net/voters-rejec...

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October 22, 2025 โ€œItโ€™s not his house.

October 22, 2025

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The federal government is still shut down. Here's what that means in your community The federal government remains shut down. The NPR Network is following the ways the shutdown is affecting services across the country.

The federal government is still shut down. Here's what that means across the country

www.npr.org/2025/10/22/g...

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Happy anniversary!

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The federal government is still shut down. Here's what that means across the country The federal government remains shut down. The NPR Network is following the ways the shutdown is affecting services across the country.

This is quite thorough.

The federal government is still shut down. Here's what that means in your community

www.npr.org/2025/10/22/g...

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October 21, 2025 On this, the twenty-first day of the government shutdown, President Donald J.

October 21, 2025

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October 20, 2025 Over the weekend, as millions of Americans attended โ€œNo Kingsโ€ protests, President Donald J.

October 20, 2025

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October 19, 2025 All last week, Republican leaders tried to portray the No Kings protests scheduled for Saturday, October 18, as โ€œHate Americaโ€ rallies.

October 19, 2025

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Our confirmed count stands at 8.1 million participants worldwide for yesterdayโ€™s No Kings protest. Thank you to everyone who helped verify the numbers through our submission website. While some MAGAs attempted to submit false or misleading data (such as reporting โ€œone personโ€ for major cities)

19.10.2025 23:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6704    ๐Ÿ” 1582    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 96    ๐Ÿ“Œ 93

Happy anniversary!

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