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2018 Massachusetts Ballot Question One: Not Great Governance
This 2018 election, Massachusetts ballot Question One is about nurse-patient ratios. Specifically, they say there should only be so many patients assigned to a nurse, depending on how intensely the patients need help. Ballpark, this is a reasonable idea. The devil is in the details. The following is the summary of some emails I shared […]
Consensus Decision Making in a Room of 19
I liked a recent experience on the City of Worcester’s Task Force for Sustaining Housing First Solutions. In the current climate of incivility, especially on social media, consensus-oriented approaches to hard problems are especially appealing. Here’s how this one worked. Smart editors, including Barbara Poppe, prepared a set of 26 recommendations. The goal was to […]
Why is the law so hard to read?
If I could wave a magic wand, I would pass a law that read, “Every law must be comprehensible by the people it is meant to govern.” and then I would pass another law that read, “For the purpose of the law, attorneys are presumed to have infinite intellect, and can punish themselves with whatever […]
