Here is a case study. In our state, the Chief Justice for Administration and Management [CJAM] has total control over a line item, 0330-0300 in which there is no itemization, nor any requirement that anything be spent on anything … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2, 2009
Name your favorite Massachusetts progressives
We were asked by the good people at the Accountability Now! PAC, which was founded with support from the FireDogLake.com team, for a list of Massachusetts progressives worthy of support. We came up with the following non-exclusive … [Read more...]
Dan Rea Podcasts Prison (phone) Interview With Benjamin LaGuer
LaGuer is a caller into this interview with his legal team. Click here to listen to just part of the Nightside with Dan Rea show on WBZ News Radio 1030 last Friday where they discussed the case for a whole hour. … [Read more...]
One in ten Americans on food stamps
Shall we assume that it's because so many people are getting the short end of the economic stick, or are we going to argue that the nanny state is coddling too many lazy slackers? … [Read more...]
April Showers Bring… Genocide?
In the last century, all of the six major genocides that have been perpetrated- Armenia, the Holocaust, Bosnia, Cambodia, Darfur and Rwanda -- all have major anniversaries that take place in the month of April, an eerie and unsettling … [Read more...]
Guardian newspaper moving to Twitter distribution
April fools! (In arrears). Thanks to everyone for your excellent contributions to our molehill discussion yesterday. … [Read more...]
There’s dumb governing, and then there’s dumb reporting
The four appointees in question? Pat Cloney, a former director under Patrick's administration at the Massachusetts office of business development, as the $190,000-a-year interim executive director at a newly created agency called the Clean … [Read more...]