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Archives for August 19, 2008
Second Suffolk Figures, Hold the Salt
That poll, Cohen says, was message testing, not voting. "It didn't have Sonia winning, but it did show that she could close the gap" that she started with as an unknown. Because Wilkerson hadn't bothered to collect the 300 … [Read more...]
This is real leadership.
Patrick's star continues to rise. … [Read more...]
Patrick administration forces MBTA to rescind pay raises
Excellent news. Under pressure from the Patrick administration, MBTA General Manager Daniel A. Grabauskas today agreed to rescind a 9 percent pay increase granted last week to 273 executive employees and to replace it with a 3 percent raise … [Read more...]
Character. Integrity
This is the research that has been discovered thus far on the McCain cheating "At 9:49 this morning a caller into C-Span noted that in answering one question McCain referred to and asked to get back to a question he had not been asked yet. … [Read more...]
Gang Hate Crime Attack
There's been a lot of terrible attacks against GLBT people and those who support us recently, but in many ways, this one makes me the saddest. A teen who was a member of the Family Swans (a subset of the Bloods gang) was killed by fellow … [Read more...]
Judge lifts gag order on MIT students who found Charlie Card flaws
Today the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the ACLU of Massachusetts convinced a federal judge to lift a gag order on three MIT students who researched flaws in the MBTA's fare payment system. Essentially, the students had found a … [Read more...]
Blogging from the DNC
My name is Giovanna Negretti and I am the Executive Director of ¿Oíste?, the first and only statewide Latino Political Organization in Massachusetts. However, today I am writing to you as a registered Democrat. Last March I was the only … [Read more...]
The Pentagon agrees: Kerry was right about terrorism.
This is what Kerry has talked about in length, for a very long time: Writes the Pentagon report: "The struggle against violent extremists will not end with a single battle or campaign. Rather, we will defeat them through the patient … [Read more...]
Wasting taxpayer dollars- or how I came to understand Barbara Anderson’s existence.
A few years back a brand new, very lovely lodge and large garage were built at the Saugus entrance to Breakheart Reservation.. Since then a small building boom has taken place at the entrance. In addition to the lodge, a maple … [Read more...]