Today's Herald reported that The Rendon Group's Boston office has a state contract that is almost as secretive as the Pentagon's contract with Rendon's Washington office. As the Herald story documents, there are plenty of "good … [Read more...]
Archives for January 17, 2007
US Senate Bill 1: Registering Bloggers
To me, a lobbyist is someone who reaches out to politicians and office holders and tries to change what they think. If someone asks voters to contact their representatives, that's not lobbying. When (if) the voter makes the call, that's not … [Read more...]
MassEquality public meetings
MassEquality is doing a very smart thing: they're holding a series of community meetings to talk about marriage equality. From the announcement:These forums are a great opportunity for you, your family members and friends to meet with … [Read more...]
Illegal Election at last State Committee Meting
Just wondering if anyone knows why this was allowed to happen?1) The Chair of the Party is elected by the members of the DSC and the term of that office is 4 years. Technicaly Phil has 2 more years to serve out his term unless he … [Read more...]
Shout out to AmberPaw
From today's Republican Metro East section [http://www.masslive....]Resounding applause to those who serve to protect our freedoms. Cudos to BMG blogger Deborah Sirotkin Butler (aka AmberPaw) of Arlington for her election to … [Read more...]
Globe: Providers in pinch on health reform
From today's Globe: Providers in pinch on health reformIt turns out that, ironically, small non-profit healthcare providers anticipate getting hit hard by Chapter 58's mandate that they provide health insurance.I'm sure that this is just … [Read more...]
Has Hell Frozen Over?
But back to Grist:Green reactions to Stevens' and Obama's bills reveal a tension between energy security and environmental protection that's likely to escalate in coming months and years. As NRDC's [policy director David] Doniger says, … [Read more...]
Name tag, a simple and effective social and civic tool
At the stroke of midnight on new years eve I slapped on my my name tag and my social experiment of wearing a name tag every day in 2007 began. So far its been a blast. The Boston Globe featured the story this past Sunday and today CBS 4 … [Read more...]
We Need A Nickname For Willard
I briefly channel surfed onto Howie Carr a few days ago - he was running a contest to come up with a cute name for Deval. Howie was pushing for "The Candyman" - I didn't listen long enough to hear the winner announced.We need a good … [Read more...]
Leaving Iraq and Saudi Arabia
What countries border Iraq and what are they likely to do? The border countries are Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Kuwait, Jordan, Syrian, and Iran.Right away, it should be clear that neither Jordan nor Kuwait is likely to cause much trouble at … [Read more...]