Lakshmi for Needham Select Board

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Last Sunday Update, Week 23 (9/27/21): “The Witch Is Dead” — Lakshmi for Needham As you have all learned by now, I had to step down from my elected position in executive level leadership due to the conflict of interest with my fellowship for this year. I entered the race for Select Board because of my interest in crafting policy to make a difference at the local level. At the

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Sunday Update, Week 21 (9/07/21): Labor Day, Shana Tova — Lakshmi for Needham Happy Labor Day! Happy Labor Day? Feels strange to say that, since the history of Labor Day is the initial acknowledgement of how a capitalistic society (the US in the 19th century) took advantage of unskilled labor. The notion of giving unskilled labor (and back then, children too) time “off” (...

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Sunday Update, Week 20 (8/29/21): Starting School, COVID, and Choices — Lakshmi for Needham School starts Wednesday. How did that happen?? The summer now feels like it was over in an instant and here we are — going back to school — on Wednesday. Normally, I love the start of the new school year. It’s so exciting. This year, with the new data and distressing news of the Delta variant ...

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Sunday Update, Week 19 (8/22/21): Stormy Weather — Lakshmi for Needham Today was supposed to be a day of rain and wind and damage from Hurricane Henri, but lucky for Needham, Henri steered clear of the Boston area and has been downgraded to a tropical “depression.” I was obsessively watching hurricane coverage this morning, enough to scare my kids about the impendi...

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Sunday Update, Week 15-16 (8/3/21): Priorities and Transparency — Lakshmi for Needham This update is a little later than planned as I’m now juggling full time childcare on top of everything else I may want to do. Stay-at-home parenting jobs are tremendous work! As your Select Board representative, I ran for Select Board to bring the interests and concerns of the Needham communit