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		<title>BOA Legislative Matters Committee</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Dahlbacka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ March 16, 2010; 8:00 pm; 8:00 pm; ] BOA Legislative Matters  Committee

Tues. Mar. 16 8:00 PM

Somerville City Hall
Aldermen's Chamber
93 Highland Ave.
Somerville MA (map)

Agenda (PDF) 

This is the regular meeting of  the Legislative Matters Committee of the Somerville Board of Aldermen.  This meeting will address a Home Rule Petition to amend the City  Charter.

This meeting is important because  amending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>APBP Webinar on ADA Transition Plans</title>
		<link>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2010/03/14/events/apbp-webinar-on-ada-transition-plans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Dahlbacka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ March 17, 2010; 3:00 pm; ] APBP Webinar on ADA Transition Plans

Wed. Mar. 17 3:00 PM

Livable Streets Office
100 Sidney St.
Cambridge MA (map)

This webinar, sponsored by the  Livable Streets Alliance, will cover the basics of creating a  transition plan for retrofitting transportation facilities to meet the  requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Preregistration  is required.

This webinar is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MPO Long Range Transportation Plan Meeting</title>
		<link>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2010/03/14/events/mpo-long-range-transportation-plan-meeting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2010/03/14/events/mpo-long-range-transportation-plan-meeting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Dahlbacka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ March 18, 2010; 10:00 am; ] MPO Long Range Transportation  Plan Meeting 

Thurs. Mar. 18 10:00 AM

State Transportation Building
10 Park Plaza
Boston MA (map)

This is the first of a series  of meetings sponsored by the Metropolitan Planning Organization to  develop the new Long Range Tranportation Plan for Greater Boston out to  2035. The new plan is due April [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PDS co-sponsors State Senate Election Forum!</title>
		<link>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2010/03/13/events/pds-co-sponsors-state-senate-election-forum/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2010/03/13/events/pds-co-sponsors-state-senate-election-forum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marty Martinez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ March 18, 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] You are invited!

The Progressive Democrats of Somerville (PDS) have joined with Cambridge  and Somerville for Change and the Cambridge Democratic City Committee  to host a candidates forum for the Middlesex, Suffolk &#38; Essex State  Senate race. This is the race to fill the seat that was left vacant by  Senator Galluccio's resignation. As progressives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blueback Herring River Route Community Meeting</title>
		<link>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2010/03/07/events/blueback-herring-river-route-community-meeting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2010/03/07/events/blueback-herring-river-route-community-meeting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Dahlbacka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ March 10, 2010; 6:30 pm; ] Blueback Herring River Route  Community Meeting

Wed. Mar. 10 6:30 PM

Elizabeth Peabody House
277 Broadway
Somerville MA (map)

This meeting, sponsored by  Mayor Curtatone and Alderman Pero, will present and request feedback  from the public on the City's plans to create the "Blueback Herring  River Route" connecting Foss Park to Shore Drive, with improvements to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BOA Legislative Matters Committee of the Whole : Charter Changes</title>
		<link>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2010/03/07/events/boa-legislative-matters-committee-of-the-whole-charter-changes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2010/03/07/events/boa-legislative-matters-committee-of-the-whole-charter-changes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Dahlbacka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ March 9, 2010; 7:00 pm; ] BOA Legislative Matters  Committee of the Whole

Tues. Mar. 9 7:00 PM

Somerville City Hall
Aldermen's Chamber
93 Highland Ave.
Somerville MA (map)

Agenda (PDF) 

This is the regular meeting of  the Legislative Matters Committee of the Somerville Board of Aldermen.  This meeting will address a Home Rule Petition to amend the City  Charter.

This meeting is important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee Planning Meeting</title>
		<link>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2010/03/07/events/comprehensive-plan-steering-committee-planning-meeting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2010/03/07/events/comprehensive-plan-steering-committee-planning-meeting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Dahlbacka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ March 9, 2010; 6:30 pm; ] Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee Planning Meeting

Tues., Mar. 9, 6:30 PM

Upper Hall
Greek Orthodox Church
29 Central St.
Somerville MA (map)

This is the second phase 3  planning meeting of the Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee. At this  meeting, the group will continue specifying goals, policies and actions  to implement the vision statement.

The goal of the comprehensive plan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Somerville Voices open meeting</title>
		<link>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2010/03/04/events/somerville-voices-open-meeting-12/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2010/03/04/events/somerville-voices-open-meeting-12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alain Jehlen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ March 7, 2010; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Come with your ideas for our community blog.

Somerville Visiting Nurses assisted living facility, 259 Lowell Street.]]></description>
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		<title>Escape From Suburbia film</title>
		<link>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2010/03/04/uncategorized/escape-from-suburbia-film/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2010/03/04/uncategorized/escape-from-suburbia-film/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Rule</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ March 8, 2010; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] Representative Denise Provost, Somerville Climate Action, the Initiating Committee of Transition Somerville and Somerville-Medford United for Justice with Peace invite you to a showing of

Escape from Suburbia
Monday, March 8
6:30 to 8:30pm
Somerville Public Library
79 Highland Ave 02143 (map).  See attached flyer, below.

Meet ordinary people making extraordinary choices as they tackle the key issues facing us today [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save the Date: Under the Roof</title>
		<link>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2010/03/03/events/save-the-date-under-the-roof/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2010/03/03/events/save-the-date-under-the-roof/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markaf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ April 24, 2010; 6:00 pm to 10:30 pm. ] Under the Roof, an event recognizing 25 years of support, housing and community by the Somerville Homeless Coalition and honoring Karen LaFrazia, one of our founding board members and now executive director of the St. Francis House in Boston.  At the Center for the Arts at the Armory.  For more information please call 617-623-6111 or [...]]]></description>
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