Lawmakers in at least eight states want recipients of food stamps, unemployment benefits or welfare to submit to random drug testing. check it I like it. I don't buy the idea that people get on welfare with the intention of staying … [Read more...]
Archives for March 26, 2009
Benjamin LaGuer’s New Legal Team
For some reason the embed function isn't working. Click here to see the NECN segment with LaGuer's new team. … [Read more...]
No Ethics Without Electoral Reform
Lots of talk on the Speakah's reform proposals. Lots of people applauded the Governor's reform proposals. I wasn't one of them, because it was mostly making already-illegal things more illegal. None of those ideas are bad, but if … [Read more...]
Trivia Question: How Long Did it Take Dog Track Owners to Try to Undo the Will of the People?
Trivia Question: How long after election day did it take dog track owners to begin their effort to undo the will of the people? If you guessed forty days, you're right! According to a tip GREY2K USA received from a confidential source, a … [Read more...]
Keep your eyes on the road
We are in this thing together. It is time to collaborate. Take emissions standards, for example. We understand the direction of the carbon economy. We embraced 40% higher federal fuel standards in the 2007 energy bill, … [Read more...]
The Politics of the DREAM Act: Laying the Groundwork For Migration Reform
Dreamactivist.org is also beginning to sound the war drums through their change.org blog. Thousands have already been invited to call-in in support of the DREAM Act through facebook. The DREAM Act will be the first major … [Read more...]
Maybe the Best Idea for Newspapers: Make Them Nonprofits
Blomberg via the Globe: US Senator Ben Cardin introduced a bill to allow newspapers to operate as nonprofit organizations, following four bankruptcies in the industry in as many months. Under the proposed bill, advertising and circulation … [Read more...]
How to cut costs without costing anything
It's time to get creative in finding ways to cut expenditures. One obvious place that doesn't seem to have been looked at is the criminal code. Property crimes are divided into misdemeanors and felonies primarily by dollar … [Read more...]
What’s next for the shrinking Globe
Working harder isn't going to do it once the Boston Globe has finished with its current round of 50 reductions to the newsroom staff. Once that process has been completed, the news staff will have shrunk from about 550 full-time journalists … [Read more...]
Anti-Patrick Facebook Sites Newly Energized
Metaphorical pitchforks and torches, it seems, are not only being handed out on Connecticut bus tours of the mansions of AIG executives. A series of Facebook sites that oppose Governor Patrick have picked up new energy in recent weeks. The … [Read more...]