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Memo to Mitchell — Improve Boston About Results

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To: Mitchell Weiss CC: Lisa Signori, Chris Osgood Boston About Results should be the centerpiece of the Mayor’s plan for “making over basic city services”. Here’s some key steps to fixing it: 1) Bring the data to life: Don’t break the data up into scores of static PDFs. Provide the data in multiple, user-friendly formats, like Excel, so it can be easily analyzed. 2) Make data comparable: Right now, it shows year-to-date data for this year and full year data for previous years. Provide apples-to-apples data so users can see how this year’s performance stacks up against previous years. 3) Open up the process: Other cities have formal ‘citistat’ meetings and some release the detailed analyses used in these meetings. […]

Al Gore is absolutely right on censorship

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Gore is right to call for the Coast Guard/FAA/BP handlers to “Stop Censoring News From The Gulf”: These reports are deeply disturbing: “When the operators of Southern Seaplane in Belle Chasse, La., called the local Coast Guard-Federal Aviation Administration command center for permission to fly over restricted airspace in Gulf of Mexico, they made what they thought was a simple and routine request.” “A pilot wanted to take a photographer from The Times-Picayune of New Orleans to snap photographs of the oil slicks blackening the water. The response from a BP contractor who answered the phone late last month at the command center was swift and absolute: Permission denied.” This behavior is completely unacceptable. Access by reporters should be as […]

Great news on Roxbury Prep Charter School

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Here is a great outcome from the passage of the charter school cap lift in January: the Roxbury Prep charter middle school, which is a standout in raising student achievement is announcing that it is going to replicate! from the announcement passed on by Dana Lehman and Will Austin, currently co-directors at RP: We plan to serve up to 2,000 children by 2020, playing a significant role in reshaping public education in Boston… As of July 1, Dana will become Uncommon Schools’ Managing Director of the Boston network and begin the process of charter applications and planning for the opening the first new Roxbury Prep campus in 2011-2012… Roxbury Prep is formally partnering with Uncommon Schools, Inc. Uncommon Schools, Inc. […]

Ths is getting ugly.

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Today’s Globe story regarding Insurance companies’ unwillingness to participate in the Connector’s new program “Business Express” is interesting but incomplete. The reporters should pay attention to bloggers’ comments about why the program may not be working and about how this option doesn’t really offer more affordable options for businesses. I do not know why the Connector and the Globe keep touting lower premiums. The Connector failed in its mission to serve small businesses by not offering a defined contribution model. Are they really going to sue the insurers for not offering this product through the Connector? That sounds desperate to me. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the feds don’t follow suit when they promulgate regulations for state-level exchanges.

Answering the Question No One is Asking

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Hot off the presses, the Needham Times brings us this vital piece of gubernatorial race insight: “If these two gentlemen were running a summer camp for girls I would want send my daughter to go to the one being run by Deval Patrick,” Khoury said.