VOTE NO ON ARTICLE 7
By Corinne Hogseth Many folks have asked me for a summary of what happened over the last couple months, which resulted in the passage of […]
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Inflation?
By Corinne Hogseth The pro-override contingent keeps insisting an override is necessary because municipal and school expenses cannot possibly grow at only 2.5% annually over […]
$132M for Fiscal 2025 – it’s your money
By Bob Hertz You are asked to vote on April 30 for an override of $6.6M, most of which supports Acton Leadership Groups (ALG) Fiscal […]
Against the Override
By Tom Beals Introduction An override vote is pending at the upcoming April 30, 2024 town election. If the override is passed, the town’s maximum […]
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 […]
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 […]
To all Acton Residents
By Bob Hertz Acton Leadership Group (ALG) (1), our town’s power brokers or their emissaries, tell you how much money they want and how they […]
Keep Acton Affordable Vote NO at Town Elections on April 30
By Keep Acton Affordable At Acton’s 2016 Annual Town Meeting, there was an article to approve funding to repaint Town Hall. The Finance Committee refused […]
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 […]
School Committee January News Update
By Diane Baum This article was originally published in the Acton Exchange (www.actonexchange.org) with the following modifications by the author: moved section on the budget […]