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The relative merits of retaining and changing the name Columbus Day, the subject of Ballot Question 1 in the March 2 town election, has gripped Wellesley and other Massachusetts communities this season. Judging from Townsman news and opinions and comments made on lines outside stores from Roche Bros. to Tutto Italiano and the Wellesley Toy Shop, the question has divided voters. Overheard: “Cancel culture.” “Talk about ethnic slights.” “Don’t we already have an Indigenous Peoples Day? Not sure when it is, but that’s just me.” “This doesn’t feel ready. I’ve got more important things to think about these days, and, you’d think, so does the Board of Selectmen.” Yet Ballot Question 1 is hardly half-baked: It’s been at least a half-century in the making.
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Big ticket items like targets for cutting national carbon emissions or raising infrastructure ahead of sea level rise are often the focus in discussions of climate change.
However, local governments can take on plenty of smaller efforts according to Enrich Sala, an oceanographer and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence who now advocates for action on climate change.
“Shifting to electric public transportation or mandating emissions from buildings for example,” Sala said in a phone interview.”
Last year’s legislative session was largely derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing lawmakers to divert focus away from other priorities like reducing Hawaii’s cost of living.