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2022 Newton Inaugurations and Inaugural Addresses

January 4, 2022

Inaugural remarks

  • Remarks of Chief Justice Budd for Inauguration of Mayor Ruthanne Fuller January 2022
  • Mayor Ruthanne Fuller: Inaugural Address – January 2022
  • Newton City Council President Susan Albright: Inauguration Address — January 2022
  • School Committee Chair Tamika Olszewski: Inaugural Address January 2022
Chief Justice Budd administers the oath of office for Mayor Fuller's second term
Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Kimberly S. Budd administering the Oath of Office for Mayor Ruthanne Fuller’s second term.
Newton City Council President Susan Albright
Newton City Council President Susan Albright
Newton School Committee Chair Chair Tamika Olszewski
Newton School Committee Chair Chair Tamika Olszewski

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A Conversation with Congressman Auchincloss

December 7, 2021

Jake Auchincloss

December 6, 2021 (Monday, 7:30-8:30pm) – A Conversation with Congressman Jake Auchincloss.  LWVN, together with Brookline, Needham, Sharon-Stoughton, and Wellesley Leagues of Women Voters, hosted a conversation on Zoom with Congressman Jake Auchincloss, in which we heard about the Congressman’s legislative accomplishments from the past year and discussed the upcoming congressional session and redistricting of the 4th district.

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Newton General Election – Tuesday, November 2, 2021

October 19, 2021

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The November election includes races for the following city offices:  mayor, 16 at-large councilors, 8 ward councilors, and 8 school committee members.

Application deadline for mail-in voting is Wednesday, October 27, 2021.  Early voting is available at City Hall from Monday, October 25 through Saturday, October 30

Read below for more information on who the candidates are and how to plan your vote. Read more →

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LWVN 2021 Voters Guide is here!

October 16, 2021

To help voters learn more about the candidates in the upcoming election, LWVN invited all candidates to submit answers to 3 questions and compiled their answers into our

2021 Voters Guide

All candidates were asked to answer the following two questions:

  • Q1: What in your background prepares you to be effective in the political office you are seeking?
  • Q2: If you’re elected, what will be your first priority? Why? How will you address your priority?

The third question varied by office, as follows:

  • Q3, Mayor: How will you ensure that city employees work in a respectful, transparent, and accountable environment that has a strong performance management and development process?
  • Q3, Councilor At Large: Please explain what diversity, equity, and inclusion mean to you. Why these are important to Newton?
  • Q3, Ward Councilor: How will you make your decision to vote on a proposal that positively affects Newton overall but seems less so for all or part of your ward?
  • Q3, School Committee: What is your plan to communicate the Newton schools’ plans, decisions, and programs to residents without children in Newton schools? How will you engage with them?

Find the answers in the 2021 Voters Guide!

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Send your questions for the candidates: Newton Municipal Election, Nov 2, 2021

September 19, 2021

Newton voters: send us your questions for the candidates!

This year, the League will once again create an online Voters Guide and host Candidate Forums for the municipal election for Mayor, City Councilors, and School Committee members on November 2, 2021.

The LWVN Voters Guide and Candidate Forums are neutral forums where we invite all candidates to provide answers to the public, as part of our mission to encourage informed and active participation in government. The League of Women Voters is nonpartisan: this means we neither support nor oppose candidates or political parties at any level of government. We do advocate for issues we have studied and taken positions on, but we do not support or oppose candidates.

Help us formulate questions to cover a wide variety of topics in our Voters Guide and to use in our Candidate Forums!  Please submit your question(s) for any of the groups of candidates — for Mayor, City Councilor, or School Committee. You may submit this form as many times as needed to ask multiple questions of different candidate groups.

We suggest that your question be direct and about 1-2 sentences long. This generally results in more direct and focused answers. We can’t guarantee questions will be used verbatim as we may combine similar questions, but we will try to address as many topics and questions as possible.
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League of Women Voters of Newton, MA
League of Women Voters of Newton, MA

May 16th, 6:12 am

Honoring Madeleine Albright (1937-2022) on her birthday today, she sadly passed away in March. Among many achievements, 1st female U.S. Sec. of State (1997-2001). Pres. Biden said of her, "In the 20th and 21st century, freedom had no greater champion." https://bit.ly/3L0PH9r ... See MoreSee Less

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May 11th, 4:55 pm

From LWV MA: Support Reproductive Rights NOW - https://mailchi.mp/ab54191dae79/dec_28_2021-8864593 ... See MoreSee Less

From LWV MA: Support Reproductive Rights NOW

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As League members, we know that true democracy depends on equal rights for all people. Losing our right to reproductive choice would open the door to the loss of other freedoms, such as marriage equ...
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League of Women Voters of Newton, MA
League of Women Voters of Newton, MA

May 8th, 12:29 pm

Happy Mother’s Day! We thank all Mothers, for none of us would here without you! There were also many mother-daughter duos who fought together for suffrage: Elizabeth Cady Stanton/Harriet Stanton Blatch, Mary Church Terrell/Phyllis Terrell, and more! https://bit.ly/3vW5W1R ... See MoreSee Less

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League of Women Voters of Newton, MA

May 6th, 11:39 am

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League of Women Voters of Newton, MA
League of Women Voters of Newton, MA

May 6th, 11:35 am

On behalf of @LWV MA: The League of Women Voters of Massachusetts views the leaked Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, if it holds, as an attack on a fundamental right to health care and to the right of pregnant people to make their own decisions about what is best for them. In light of the probable overturning of Roe v. Wade, the League expresses its gratitude to the Massachusetts state legislature for passing, in 2020, the ROE Act, legislation that codified the right to an abortion in Massachusetts regardless of any U.S. Supreme Court decision. We salute our partners in reproductive health advocacy for their work in anticipating the need for this legislation.We now urge the legislature to continue this work protecting the right to make one's own health care decisions by passing without delay two additional bills:H.1196/S.673 An Act ensuring access to full spectrum pregnancy care. This bill would provide financial assistance for a full-range of pregnancy-related care. See our testimony: https://lwvma.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/LWVMA-Testimony-S.673-H.1196.pdfH.2399/S.1470 An Act to require public universities to provide medication abortion. See our testimony: https://lwvma.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/LWVMA-Testimony-S.1470-H.2399.pdfThe national League of Women Voters continues to advocate for these rights on the federal level. Read their statement here: https://lwv.org/newsroom/press-releases/… ... See MoreSee Less

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