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The Monona Public Safety Commission has recommended that the city council pass a resolution asking the state legislature to adopt a statewide ban on cell phone use and texting while driving. The vote was 6-1.
The committee felt that adopting a Monona-only ban would be problematic given that a driver can travel from Madison to Monona, the Town of Madison, Fitchburg, and back to Madison in just a few miles on the Beltline. It would be difficult to give a driver fair notice.
Here is a list of state cell phone laws.
Consumer Reports blogged the topic recently. And here.
The NYT presented a series of blogger views.
Showing posts with label cell phones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cell phones. Show all posts
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Friday, July 17, 2009
Monona in the News
Labels:
cell phones,
Chickens,
Communication,
Monona,
Schools
Mike Ivey covers the cell phone/texting-while-driving-ban:
http://www.madison.com/tct/news/stories/458310
By the way, while this did not originate with me and the Public Safety Commission may disagree, my expectation is that any such ban would not apply to the use of 'hands free' devices.
And Gena Kittner covers chickens in the WSJ:
http://www.madison.com/wsj/topstories/458623
And Adam Mella reports in the Herald that the Monona Grove School board eliminates committees. My good friend and educational expert Dean Bowles supported the move and I expect that was probably pretty influential. He expressed the view that the Board has become 'factional', but I wonder if having all the discussion occur at the Board level will instead increase division.
Board President Susan Fox explains it in her letter to the editor.
How is the Board going to get the benefit of community involvement? There will be no more citizen members on committees because there will be no more committees. Yes, people can still speak at Board meetings, but that is not the same thing by a long shot as having community members involved in full discussions and making recommendations to the full Board. Committee members often offer insights and ideas that are extremely helpful.
Personally, I think this policy change is a mistake. Certainly, running a school system is different from running a city, but I cannot imagine abolishing our city committees. If the concern was that too many decisions were being made at the committees, then a different solution would be for the Board to give less deference to the advisory committees.
Peter Sobols blogs it: http://petersobol.blogspot.com/2009/07/thanks-but-no-thanks.html
http://www.madison.com/tct/news/stories/458310
By the way, while this did not originate with me and the Public Safety Commission may disagree, my expectation is that any such ban would not apply to the use of 'hands free' devices.
And Gena Kittner covers chickens in the WSJ:
http://www.madison.com/wsj/topstories/458623
And Adam Mella reports in the Herald that the Monona Grove School board eliminates committees. My good friend and educational expert Dean Bowles supported the move and I expect that was probably pretty influential. He expressed the view that the Board has become 'factional', but I wonder if having all the discussion occur at the Board level will instead increase division.
Board President Susan Fox explains it in her letter to the editor.
How is the Board going to get the benefit of community involvement? There will be no more citizen members on committees because there will be no more committees. Yes, people can still speak at Board meetings, but that is not the same thing by a long shot as having community members involved in full discussions and making recommendations to the full Board. Committee members often offer insights and ideas that are extremely helpful.
Personally, I think this policy change is a mistake. Certainly, running a school system is different from running a city, but I cannot imagine abolishing our city committees. If the concern was that too many decisions were being made at the committees, then a different solution would be for the Board to give less deference to the advisory committees.
Peter Sobols blogs it: http://petersobol.blogspot.com/2009/07/thanks-but-no-thanks.html
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