Still there is no funding stream to pay for the current transportation needs as referenced in the 2007 Transportation Finance Commission report and here is the best part. The biggest potential savings, trimming healthcare costs for MBTA … [Read more...]
Archives for June 17, 2009
H.R. 1255 Family Rights Bill – Cosponsors and Supporters Requested
In the last decade, the federally funded class action lawyers, often aided and abetted by the ARCs (which are also multimillion dollar service providers), have sued various states to either close down facilities or remove severe to … [Read more...]
Netroots Nation: Participate Online for FREE!
I know, I know, you have questions. We'll get through some basic stuff in this diary, and if you have other questions please feel free to drop them in a comment and one of our volunteers will respond. What is Second Life? Second Life is all … [Read more...]
WORCESTER TEA PARTY THIS SATURDAY
The Worcester Tea Party is part of a national grassroots movement to protest out of control government spending and interference in the free market. It is a response to the usurpation and subversion of personal freedoms and free … [Read more...]
What must Obama do on GLBT issues to get your vote (with poll)?
In the poll, I'm assuming that federal workplace and housing protections will be easier than DADT, and that DADT will be easier to get done than repealing DOMA, so I assume that they will happen in that order. Please read the options and … [Read more...]
Transparency and Conference Committees
To say that transparency and accountability are not considered by any of the key players is an understatement. They don’t even want to admit they are talking privately, as this excerpt from the State House News illustrates. … [Read more...]
Sad news from the North Shore, and a modest action item
One problem that some arts organizations and other nonprofits face is that they can't get to the money in their endowment. Because of the market collapse, some endowments (particularly those created relatively recently) are now worth … [Read more...]
Why I Voted No on the Supplemental
Hello BMGrs, Although I regularly read Blue Mass Group, today's post is my first. I know many of you are deeply concerned about the wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan. This issue remains at the top of Congress' agenda and we have been debating … [Read more...]
Activism, 2009
(Cross-posted from Blue News Tribune. Blame sabutai for putting me in a metamood.) Here is something I am tempted to call misguided activism: http://www.jennymccarthybodyco... But is it? It certainly gets one's attention. It got me thinking … [Read more...]
Lehigh boots it again, this time on health care
How do you solve a problem like Scot Lehigh? How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?Yes, the CBO costed out a not-finished, in-progress, incomplete version of a Senate health care bill, and found it wanting. That's to be patched up, … [Read more...]