Hi All: A recent poll showed that Mayor Menino purportedly enjoys a 72% favorability rating and a whopping 80% with women. Where is the attraction? Is it the high property tax rate or the lack of city services that makes the public love him … [Read more...]
Archives for May 3, 2008
Hey Charley, Were You Serious or Not? – With Poll
Recently I commented that Rep.Carl Scortino is supported by Mass Alliance, an umbrella organization of 22 progressive groups. Mass Alliance actively supports and recruits legislative candidates. Members include some teachers' unions and the … [Read more...]
Like a “Box of Chocolates” there is something for everyone in this “consolidated amendment”
At about 11 PM on Friday night, the members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives were given an 18 page "Consolidated Amendment". That is 18 pages single spaced. Like a box of chocolates, there is something for … [Read more...]
The Perfect Speaker
I am not naming names, but listing qualities [sorry to disappoint]. Here, is a list of the qualities that my favorite Representatives do have, and which I would personally prefer in a Speaker: 1. Proven integrity over the long haul, … [Read more...]
BU scary-virus lab facing lengthy review process
In November, when we last checked in on Boston University's peculiar plan to place a laboratory to study the world's most dangerous pathogens in Boston's highly-congested South End, an independent panel of the National Research Council had … [Read more...]
Ding Ho Reunion For Laz
As Barry Crimmins put it, "Laz has been walloping the daylights out of leukemia, an unpaid, yet full-time endeavor. So the kids are putting on a couple of shows ..." Spearheaded by Tony V and Jimmy Tingle, Sunday evening (4 May, and a … [Read more...]
“Since I’ve been president…”
"Since I've been president, I want to remind you that we've been through recession, we have been through a terrorist attack, we have been at war, we've had corporate scandals, we have had major natural disasters..." Bush also spoke of … [Read more...]
Good News: 2008 Election Likely to be Fair
The following swing states have Democratic Secretaries of State. They are listed in order of number of electoral votes: Pennsylvania (21) Ohio (20) North Carolina (15)* Virginia (13) Wisconsin (10) Iowa (7) Oregon (7) Nevada (5) New … [Read more...]
Leadership roller-derby in the House
Well, this certainly does not sound pretty. Sal DiMasi's had a tough couple of months. It's definitely been a bad week, with stories coming out of unseemly (if not outright illegal) lobbying, and killing legislation in order to … [Read more...]