Health care wunderkind Ezra Klein has a fine column on how the landscape for universal health care has changed. Giving some historical context of why we don't have universal care in this country, unlike just about every other industrialized … [Read more...]
Archives for December 26, 2006
How to find out about your family — from NPR
On a totally personal note ... Usually at Christmas-time, you find out about your relatives via form letters. This year I found out from NPR. My cousins Joe, Janice, and Jonathan Day, who between them run a couple of Hopi crafts stores in … [Read more...]
A Harvard economist misses the point (surprised?)
From the blog of Greg Mankiw, a Harvard economist and former Bush administration official who thinks he can teach the Governor-elect some basic econ:Deval Patrick is no PigovianA reader emails me a story about the new Massachusetts … [Read more...]
All transition reports are now publicly available
The Patrick/Murray Transition Team has posted all of the final reports from their transition working groups at the Transition website. Also posted on the same page are links to all the comments to the working groups that were received … [Read more...]
Access Alert!
So - no more live public BROADCAST of House Sessions. Only the web enabled will be able to follow along (are you LISTENING, Savoy?). Only the computer savvy will be able to get live access. Only those who can AFFORD web … [Read more...]
Air America Cut Off in Boston
How can we be complacent about the demise of Air America even if the station was sold for Spanish catholic broadcasting. I am curious.Are others concerned?In the meantime, there is serious withdrawal amongt fans of one of the greatest media … [Read more...]
Welcome Lawbreakers!
Just a quick reminder that BMG extends a warm welcome to celebrants of every political and religious persuasion -- whether favored or not by the political winds of the moment. If yesterday was a day of delight for your family and you -- … [Read more...]
Huge potential, unmet some say (ya think?!?)
It would be a curious experience to see what type of performance evaluation tool(s) Himself used in his previous career as a business man with the people he had hired. Would non-achievement of stated goals, partial achievement of … [Read more...]
Where’s Savoy?
The post, I mean, not the town. We had a nice discussion going, and all of a sudden the link disappeared from the right-hand column. I was hoping to see some more thoughts on this important issue of universal access to telecom services. … [Read more...]