From the local Bay State Bombast, part of the Political Shorts feature written by alert BMG reader (and Leno writer) Ben Alper for the OnlineOffbeat.com site: Three things to watch for in tomorrow's Boston Marathon ... When … [Read more...]
Archives for April 25, 2008
Boston Globe losing its star health care reporter
This is a huge loss to the Globe, and to all MA residents interested in health care reform: reporter Alice Dembner reportedly has taken a buy-out and will leave the paper in early May. And the incredible shrinking Globe continues its march … [Read more...]
Foreclosure Geography
Anyway, back to the maps, here's a heat map of Boston neighborhoods by income (Red means high income, blue means low): OK, so what do you think the foreclosure heat map looks like? If you said nearly the opposite, you're … [Read more...]
Here Comes the Bribe
Well, here's what we've all been waiting for. Enjoy, everyone. Let's hope our kids can fix the mess that our great and glorious benefactor got us into. … [Read more...]
Clean Energy for the Commonwealth by Governor Deval Patrick
Name Websites A123 Systems Find out more Borrego Solar Find out more Cape Wind Find out more … [Read more...]
Our Official National (& state) Day of Religious Supremacism
The Interfaith Alliance, Jews on First!, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, (and probably others) are calling them out on this discriminatory, Christian nationalist vanity project that comes with the Congressionally … [Read more...]
Inside Track *%#@s Commit Journalistic Crime
The two %$#@s that write that trash gossip column for the Herald went off on a Globe writer today for apparently appearing intoxicated at a Fox Network dinner event. This same writer, the #%&*s reported, also wrote negative … [Read more...]
Still a closed door to the people’s House
Matt Viser's got a must-read story in today's Globe about how that $200 million tax giveaway (oh no, I don't dare call it a loophole) got put into the close-the-loopholes bill in the House.Community activist Carl Nilsson … [Read more...]
Don’t Call It a Come Back..She’s Been There For Years…Or Why Its All About the Ladies
Post-Pennsylvania, everyone is trying to decipher the meaning of Clinton's not-really 10 percentage point victory there (or have just gotten tired of it all). Many have concluded it doesn't mean anything since the outcome was largely … [Read more...]
Need help from the Hive mind
I recently tried to update my profile and all I managed to do was wipe it out. Even though I think I am following the procedures to input new data and it always denotes "changes saved", nothing gets saved. I have been referred to the Soap … [Read more...]