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Archives for December 30, 2008
Incoming: Another billion plus in cuts including midyear cuts to “local aid”
Here is the link: http://www.thebostonchannel.co... When do we collectively say "enough", and protect the most vulnerable by raising revenue instead of cutting services to the vulnerable and letting our infrastructure degrade to third … [Read more...]
Blagojevich Appointing Roland Burris to Obama’s Senate Seat
The latest here. Apparently there is to be a news conference this afternoon. UPDATE: TPM summarizes the Blagojevich/Burris press conference. Ouch!Blagojevich forcefully said that the people of Illinois should not be without full … [Read more...]
Don’t Let NS Music Theatre Close
Hairspray: The current show, Disney's High School Musical 2: Les Mis: A Christmas Carol: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee: Singin' in the Rain: … [Read more...]
Have We Become Immune to Sal DiMasi?
It is amazing, but maybe not, what Massachusetts voters will tolerate from elected officials!/! Bribes? Loans? Sweetheart deals? Meals? Travel? Lodging? Losing golf bets? The Boston Globe runs us through … [Read more...]
Quick hits/deep thoughts
Don't want to miss anything ...Say, what exactly are our "shovel-ready" projects to be paid for by the stimulus? And how many of them are public transit, and how many are just more-of-the-same big-pollution roads and bridges?For … [Read more...]
Mark Penn Knows How to Quit Pakistan
Cross-posted from Blue News Tribune and Blue Hampshire. Facts are not merely stubborn, they are annoying. I don't want to think this is important, but I do. http://www.mediabistro.com/prn... Politico reports that Burson-Marsteller and … [Read more...]
A Mayoral Directive and Boston City Council Order for routine transmittal of city public documents.
History is what you think of when you think of the city of Boston. Yet the history of city hall departments needs to be made more accessible to those of us with strong interests in municipal governmental history. Routinely public access is … [Read more...]
The Focus of Our New LGBT Rights Movement
I understand that it is the marriage issue that lit the spark to create this new LGBT movement. It is that basic civil right, to marry the one you love, that has brought so many new faces to the fight for LGBT equality. This is the … [Read more...]