Keller picks up on the health care controversy in his interview with Niki Tsongas this morning; asks her to defend her comments that the free market will take care of health care costs. She doesn't answer the question, instead talking about … [Read more...]
Archives for May 13, 2007
Remarkable Op-Ed About Urban Schools
A remarkable Op-Ed from Boston's Superintendent of Schools: The newspaper series "Leaving to Learn" tells a painful and accurate story about the state of our school district. It is hard to admit, but it is abundantly clear that we will fail … [Read more...]
Health care spending: The blob that ate Massachusetts
Telling us what we already pretty much knew, here's the Globe:Health care spending for Massachusetts communities has nearly doubled since 2001, squeezing town budgets and forcing cutbacks in public safety and government services and leading … [Read more...]
Update on the FDR Center Museum in Worcester
Our FDR Center Museum has been offered by the Mayor of Chicopee, Massachusetts, Michael D. Bissonnette, to relocate the FDR Center Museum and its massive collection of Roosevelt and New Deal artifacts and ephemera to Chicopee. This is a … [Read more...]
Governor Patrick to cut corporate taxes(?)
As reported by the Boston Globe"We may well find we can reduce the overall corporate tax rate. That would be good news", Patrick said. But he quickly added: "I want to defer to the commission."I know this is in poor fashion but I do recall … [Read more...]