For your consideration:Massachusetts Liberal: We don't always agree, but read his (?) stuff every day. Every day.The Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center (you know, the "liberal" one) has a report out that places Massachusetts business … [Read more...]
Archives for February 23, 2007
Rep. Eldridge on WUML this morning
I don't normally bother people with my Lowell-area-centric WUML radio broadcasts, but I thought BMG folks might like to hear my interview with Rep. Jamie Eldridge this morning. The entire show is recorded, so at about 11:45 minutes in is … [Read more...]
Deval is out of step with reality – Never mind, I am an idiot
The property has to be worth $684,000?! How does this help anyone in the income brackets he gave, they can't afford a house that expensive?A mortgage on a house that is worth $684,000 would be $4,100/month at 6% interest. That … [Read more...]
Front-runners Schmont-runners
I am a victim too. I could chalk it up to being a busy law student, working 20 hours a week as a clerk, or just plain being lazy and relying on media hype. They got me...but it didn't last long. Ever since the midterms, I … [Read more...]
Governor Reverts to Printed Budget Proposal?!?
Say it ain't so Deval! After four years of web-based Executive budgets, which permit instant and complete transparency in the budget process and which in turn led the House and Senate to compile their budgets online as well, the State … [Read more...]
A Special Event and a Special Film
In my main blog, Peter Porcupine I have a post about a special movie called Amazing Grace which opens in theatres today.I hope you will drop by to read the post called Making Amends and I hope even more that you will take the time to see … [Read more...]
Lege votes to continue business as usual
Surprise surprise. By lopsided margins, the legislature voted to reject two proposed rules that would increase the public's access to information about what goes on on Beacon Hill, and would make it easier for regular folks to … [Read more...]
If you blinked …
you missed Tom Vilsack's campaign for president, which will end today.I don't know enough about the situation in Iowa to have a good sense of whether this matters much. Vilsack never emerged from the low single-digits in the horserace … [Read more...]
Are Sock Puppets a Big Deal?
A Globe article today suggests that blogs are increasingly used by people with hidden agendas to promote their causes.The newspaper quotes Tom Rosenstiel, director of Project for Excellence in Journalism:"Candidates, history shows, will do … [Read more...]
Blogging in the news
Two interesting blog-related items in today's Globe. First, an article about paid political consultants masquerading as regular folks. The article details a recent incident in which a paid shill tried to drum up some grassroots … [Read more...]