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Category Archives: Behavior
The School Budget Passed. Now What?
OK, let me fess up right away: the title of this post is a bit misleading. Frankly, I used it to get your attention. If you thought that I would be writing something about the school district and fiscal responsibility, … Continue reading
Posted in Behavior, Schools, Taxes, Values
Tagged contract negotiations, school budget, Teachers
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Share the Road?
A few weeks ago I included an anecdote about bike paths in one of my posts here on Sag Hampton. It was just an anecdote in an article that was about something else entirely — but I made the point that a bike path could be beneficial in jump starting increased use of bicycles as a means of transportation, in addition to the way they’re mostly used — as a form of recreation. In that post, I did not develop the idea at any length, because — well, the article was about something else. This past weekend though, the need for more bike-friendly roadways was brought home to me in a very powerful way. …
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Posted in Behavior, Transportation
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Summer’s Here, Grumble, Grumble
Besides the longer days, warmer weather, and flowering trees, I have noticed a few other harbingers of the summer season. The very first sign occurred at work about a month ago. I work in a public library. Generally speaking, our patrons (people who use the library’s services) are a wonderful group of people. We, the library staff, and the public …
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Posted in Behavior, The Season
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In Praise of Listening
I once worked for a company that wasted a lot of time in meetings. It wasn’t that the meetings themselves were a bad idea, it was just that the meetings never seemed to achieve the intended results. Ultimately, the company hired a consultant, who, after observing one of our meetings for about fifteen minutes, told us why our meetings failed. …
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Posted in Behavior, Property Rights
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What We (May) Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate
A few days ago, a Sag Hampton resident I’ve known for years said to me, “The Long Island Railroad should be running shuttle trains in the Hamptons. There should be a train at least every half hour.” I started to tell him about Five Towns Rural Transit (5TRT) and the East End Transportation Council (EETC), and the $400,000 grant from the State that those organizations got to study that very situation, but he interrupted me. “Study? What a waste of money. Why doesn’t the railroad do it? It’d be a great thing, and they’d get a lot more people using the trains out here that way.” …
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Posted in Behavior, Our Town
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