Take a look:"From 2003 through the present date, many thousands of children in Hampden County are excessively truant from school without excuse and are clearly being subjected to educational neglect and abuse," Clauson stated. The … [Read more...]
Archives for April 6, 2007
The return of Rurak for Mayor –Haverhill
Rurak balanced growth when he was mayor in the 1990's. Recently Haverhill seems to be a bit out of control with condos on top of each other in historic downtown.With only one working bridge in Haverhill this growth presents a … [Read more...]
Comedy Fundraiser
HiThe Acton and Maynard Democratic Town Committees will be holding a comedy fundraiser April 19. If it doesn't seem too obnoxious I'm just going to paste in our press release, rather than trying to figure out a way to say the same thing in … [Read more...]
New Virtual Market – Closing Corporate Tax Loopholes
Cross-posted at The Eisenthal ReportThere is a new virtual prediction market at the Inkling platform - Will Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick succeed in closing any state corporate tax loopholes?The idea behind the market, created by … [Read more...]
Back on the Road
After much discussion, help from the state party (thanks State Committee members Claire Naughton and Joe Kaplan), and some enthusiastic new blood, the Medfield Democratic Town Committee is back up and running. At our March meeting we … [Read more...]
Pretty good news for Patrick in State House News poll
State House News has a new poll out that, while not uniformly positive, is generally pretty good for the Gov. Noteworthy, at least to me, was the fact that despite all the unremittingly lousy press surrounding the CaddyDrapesCiticall … [Read more...]
Cape Wind: Immediately, but not now
A reader points out this irony from the front page of the Cape Cod Times:Unfortunately, between the Kennedys and the Bush administration, who knows what'll happen from here on out? … [Read more...]
Should SSC be allowed? POLL
No beating around the bush, either it should be a crime, or it should be legal.As always, I'm talking about doing whatever it takes to join the genes of two people of the same-sex, creating shared genetic offspring together, I'm not talking … [Read more...]
Doonesbury v. Romney
In case you've missed it, Garry Trudeau has lately been using his Doonesbury comic strip to hammer away at Mitt Romney's embarrassing record of saying whatever seems likely to please the audience he happens to be in front of at any given … [Read more...]
My campaign for the 5th Congressional District
A little about myself? I have been on the Lowell City Council since 1996 and on January 5, 1998 I became the second woman ever elected Mayor in the city of Lowell. I served as Mayor of the city of Lowell for four years, from 1998 … [Read more...]