MMTV, Melrose Free Press, Melrose Weekly News, and Melrose Patch joined forces to offer a twelve-question candidate forum on September 4. Watch MMTV’s video of the forum below, and keep scrolling for coverage and analysis of the forum. Read/listen to coverage here: Melrose Free Press: Mayoral candidates meet the Melrose press in final candidate forum […]
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MMTV invited the candidates to share a 5-minute statement. Manisha’s statement, as recorded on August 21, 2019.
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Sustainable Melrose and Sierra Club Massachusetts convened a forum with the five candidates. Sustainability has always been a core element of Manisha’s work as a city planner. In this forum, she emphasized the importance of regional and local partnerships to give Melrose’s net zero emissions and climate action goals some teeth — starting with a
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Much business was discussed at the August 19, 2019 City Council meeting. Summaries of all meetings are not included on this site, but this meeting included a wide range of topics and was also one of the last meetings before the Mayoral preliminary. Records of additional meetings are avaiable through the City of Melrose meeting
The Melrose Free Press asked each of the five Mayoral candidates to answer a series of five questions, which were published in the days leading up to the September Preliminary Election. My answers to the questions are included here, along with links to the Melrose Free Press series (if you click the links, you may
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This post was written as a response to the ugly Tweets and comments from the 45th President of the United States regarding “The Squad” as well as Baltimore in July 2019. I posted this on July 29, 2019 on the Manisha for Melrose website as well as in local media and my social media pages.
I was invited to speak at the Asian and Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies’ inaugural Women’s Collective Summit in Washington, DC on July 25, 2019. I spoke on the “All We Do Is Win: Squad Goals” panel with former San Francisco Board of Supervisors member Jane Kim and Kentucky State Representative Nima Kulkarni, moderated by Anna
Desis for Progress and the South Asian Asian American Women’s Political Alliance hosted Montgomery Township Mayor Sadaf Jaffer, Kentucky State Representative Nima Kulkarni, DC Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Trupti Patel, and me at a meet and greet in Washington, DC. I had a great time meeting so many politically engaged, progressive South Asian Americans!
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In the summer of 2018, Melrose gathered as a community for a vigil, “Melrose Stands Up: One Community, One Nation Open to All.” It was an opportunity to stand with our neighbors in opposition to the practice of family separation at the border. Manisha spoke at the vigil, tying what’s happening at the border to
The Committee to Elect Manisha Bewtra hosted this conversation at MMTV on July 11. Julie Nolan interviewed Manisha on her thoughts on Melrose issues.
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