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...]
Archives for December 2008
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...]
Gov. Patrick Appointee Cover for Inefficiency, Waste, and Mismanagement of Special Interest Allies?
Any public relations attempts to give Jim Aloisi credibility only diffuses attention, damage control or cover up of his resume of sharing responsibility for the Massachusetts Transportation failure. The decades Aloisi failed self and … [Read more...]
Money changers in the temples of healing
Hope you checked out the Globe's fine work -- an old story, but never too late to tell -- on the historic "gentleman's agreement" to essentially create a health care provider/insurer cartel, between Partners and Blue Cross Blue … [Read more...]
A truly weird holiday card. From my dentist. (Open thread)
It's definitely weird. Is it even legal? Anyone? (Click for a larger image in a new window) This is an open thread -- report your own holiday oddities! … [Read more...]
Burning, Fiddling
In a few days the third year of the Patrick administration will begin. On January 4, 2007, brand-new Governor Patrick announced: What has distinguished us at every signature moment of our history is a willingness to look a challenge right … [Read more...]
Movie of the Year: Slumdog Millionaire
From Wikipedia: Rotten Tomatoes reported that 94% of critics gave the film positive write-ups, based upon a sample of 135, with an average score of 8.1/10.[21] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from … [Read more...]
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