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Archives for September 27, 2009
MSNBC and Chris Matthews coming to Springfield October 4th
Kudos to Chris Matthews and MSNBC for giving coverage to this very important topic. MSNBC Chris Matthews hosting a "town-hall" style discussion on literacy This is what the Main Stream Media should be doing to have a positive impact … [Read more...]
Governor Patrick to Visit North Shore 10-03-09
Governor Deval Patrick is scheduled to be in Topsfield on Saturday October 3, from 8:30AM to 10:30AM as part of the opening ceremonies of one of the oldest fairs in the nation. The Governor will participate in a parade through the … [Read more...]
Beck, Hannity obsess over ACORN while virtually ignoring major corruption scandals
In light of the recent attention Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity have devoted to a supposed corruption scandal involving ACORN, Media Matters for America reviewed the coverage each host has provided on his respective television programs to a … [Read more...]
“Cheerful Money” available in bookstores today
A shameless plug for a book by a friend. Tad Friend, as it happens, a staff writer at The New Yorker whose paean Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor is in bookstores this week. You buy the book, he gets money, … [Read more...]
Local Gays Mobilize to March on Washington Oct 10-11
Join the Impact Massachusetts, a Cambridge-based grassroots LGBT rights group that coalesced in the aftermath of passage of California's Proposition 8 last year, is offering travel packages for the National Equality March set to occur in … [Read more...]
Corporations get bailed out, we get laid off…
"Working families have been hit the hardest by this recession -- building trades, health care workers, manufacturing workers and public employees," said Robert Haynes, President of Massachusetts AFL-CIO. "Despite signs that the … [Read more...]
Senator Patrick
I think Deval Patrick can help his and our cause as "Senator Patrick". Deval Patrick is a relationship guy. In my view, that's what he has demonstrated he likes to do, that's what he's good at, and he can be better at that as "Senator … [Read more...]
“Crisis into catastrophe?” Not so fast.
One of Charlie Baker's big lines in his opening forays into the Governor's race was that, by doing unspecified bad things, the Democratic leadership of Massachusetts, and (of course) Governor Patrick specifically, made a national economic … [Read more...]
BMG as political force
After decades of feeling mostly ignored by government, I awoke this morning to a happy reminder that the net has given us a voice. Today's column by Joan Vennochi reminds us that we have become an important player in the Massachusetts … [Read more...]