The House increased the Public Health Budget by $9 million, below is a detailed look at the Public Health consolidated amendment for Fiscal Year 2012:

 $375,000 is provided to the Food Protection Program (4510-0020) to carry out mandated food inspections and related activities that identify and prevent food-borne illness that could potentially harm public health.



 $889,889 is provided for SEAL Dental Program (4510-0025) to improve the oral health of MassHealth…

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i thought now would be a great time to argue the issue of out of state license plates taking up all of the residential street spots.  I have a plan!  Apparently (someone correct me if i didn't read this properly) MA excise taxes are due from everyone who parks their car in MA for more than 50% of the year.  (This would apply to all of the students and such who claim that their car is their parents' and thus don't register or insure it in…

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[This was originally posted as a reply to another blogpost a few days ago. Since it probably got lost in the shuffle and I think it is an important post, I'd like to try to let it stand alone for a while.]



I'd like to suggest one campaign, I believe in, that few would speak up for (and is probably very controversial). That is that prostitution should be legalized, or at the very least, we should not insist that the police crack down on prostitution. Prostitution is more of… Continue

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 Saturday, April 30, 6:00 p.m.:  Come party with us!

Women Outdoors—a national, nonprofit, all-volunteer organization promoting wilderness activity, leadership and outdoors skills (check out our site)—is thrilled to be sponsoring two all-women teams for the Run of the Charles race on Saturday, April 30—so thrilled, we plan to have…

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The Commonwealth's House Ways and Means Budget came out last week and it has the potential to increase funding to the Boston Public Library and other libraries in the state with your support!



Currently Reps. Michael Moran, Byron Rushing, Kevin Honan, Nick Collins, and Aaron Michlewitz have an amendment pending, #737, that would increase the amount for the "Library of the Commonwealth" from $.35 to $.359 per resident. Another amendment, #81, by Rep. Peter Kocot of Northhampton, would… Continue

April means Earth Day! How are you celebrating?   Mass Energy's Facebook has some…

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Come one, come all to the most fabulous annual celebration of Spring! Check out Spontaneous Celebrations website for more info:

 

http://www.spontaneouscelebrations.org/

 

Also, try to pick up trash wherever you go--the snow has melted, and our neighborhood needs a little spring cleaning!

 

and check out the Guitar Circle on Sunday evenings at 7:30 at Spontaneous Celebrations on Danforth Street:…

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Neighbors,

I'm inviting all NFN members from all neighborhoods to join this, our new citywide network. 

To get things going, I'm posing the first of a series of questions (the next are up to you - add a blog post now):

This question is: What should we do as neighbors this spring and why?

Specifically, I am looking for examples of actions we can take, behaviors we can change,…

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Maureen just posed a question "does anyone use a national bank with a branch in JP that you are happy with?" in the Jamaica Plain Community Discussion Forum. I'd like to expand on her question.

• What bank do you do business with and why?
• What else do you wish they offered such as services, extended hours, something…

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Happy Spring Neighbors!

 

With spring quickly opening up, it is time again to think about the yearly community Clean-Up. This year's annual BOSTON SHINES is the last Saturday morning in April: Saturday, April 30, 2011.

 

This event has…

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Scary phrase right?

What is even scarier is that the Tobacco Industry is doing this to our young people in MA right now in the form of underhanded tobacco marketing tactics!

Are you serious? Yep, sure am. 

Did you know tobacco products are being made and marketed to look and taste like "candy" and that they are being sold in plain site and as individual units to make them more affordable to young people?

Did you…

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Got an important meeting or job interview to make? Your worries about being late because of the T are now over thanks to Howf*#ckedistheT.com.

The sites provides real time data about all operating MBTA T trains. It's very useful site with an o-fun-sive title.

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JP neighbors,

Now that we are a citywide network, you will be posting neighborhood related information in the re-activated Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Forum. Please do not add information as a blog post unless you want to start a citywide conversation or are a NFN partner making a citywide announcement. 

For events, it's really important that you tag each event…

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Neighbors, 

A couple weeks ago, we announced we'd be consolidating our network into one city wide network. So far I've accomplished the following:

1. Made the JP network the base network and changed the website address to NeighborsForNeighbors.org
2. Made it really easy for you to find what you are looking for on the front page with our new "Craigslist" style navigation. Thanks you to David K for the support and Guidance. 
3. Created forum categories for each…

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Neighbors,

Over the weekend we migrated to the our new URL and began implementing the new navigation structure on the front page. 

A technical glitch took the network offline from Saturday from about 5 pm to early this morning, thanks for your patience as that took some time to resolve. 

If you have any feedback or suggestions, please leave them as a comment. 

Who you are!



You're bright, motivated, internet savy (you're on twitter and use it regularly), can write well, have a positive can-do attitude, are looking to role up your sleeves and help make stuff happen in a big way.



While we can't pay you, we will teach you what we know about community engagement and technology and write you a sweet recommendation on linkedin.com. You'll be a critical part of further developing… Continue