Apparently CNN couldn't find anyone in Massachusetts to talk to about how the plan came together. After lines like this, "If Washington wants health care reform with bipartisan support, consider what Republican Gov. Mitt Romney accomplished … [Read more...]
Archives for August 20, 2009
Health Care Questions From JoeTS To Wonky BMGers
My first question is regarding the funding. In the previous post that this stemmed from, Charley's Q&A says, in regards to the PO: How is it funded? Just like normal insurance: You pay premiums. It's not free. He later … [Read more...]
Video of McGovern and Neal Worcester Town Hall
UMass Medical Center has provided me with the following video. I've uploaded it to YouTube. … [Read more...]
GOVERNOR PATRICK – YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THIS ONE COMING
on like a freight train - the color picture on today's Thursday Boston Herald. There it is in LIVING COLOR as they used to say a color picture of your gigantic olympic size swimming pool at your Berkshire mansion. This at a time when your … [Read more...]
Help Save Democracy in Lowell
OPEN LETTER TO GOVERNOR PATRICK by Clifford Krieger and Lynne Lupien, Move Lowell Forward PAC Co-Chairs (For additional signatories, see below.) Recently, a majority of Lowell's City Council voted to cancel the city's preliminary election. … [Read more...]
Road to Rhode Island
First published in the Anchorage Daily News, it seems that every political blog and gossip column in America has picked up this story (say what you will about Palin, the woman knows how to make news!). Even the veritable Providence Journal … [Read more...]
CA prisons on brink of collapse – is Massachusetts next in line?
LA Times Reports Governor Schwarzenegger warned today that the entire California prison system is on the brink of collapse. The governor and his corrections chief, Matt Cate, walked through the destruction at a housing unit for … [Read more...]
Making another Boston Miracle
Now at the head of the Coalition, he aims to duplicate and expand on the successful violence reduction of 17 years ago. As a long-term mediator between rival gangs, he knows that such immediate and critical action is key to the work. … [Read more...]
Health Care taking centerstage what about the economy?
It seems likely that if the Government both Federal and State can not respond to these basic needs, why are they so shocked and surprised by the skeptic approach many American's are voicing about Health care. Now don't take me the wrong way … [Read more...]
Telephone workers brief Mass. Congressional Delegation on Verizon’s proposed job cuts
Angry about how a highly profitable corporation like Verizon is threatening hundreds of layoffs, telephone union leaders and some potentially laid off workers held an unprecedented briefing with the staffs of five members of Congress and … [Read more...]