A couple of days ago I highlighted this story about the GOP in CT having their twitter accounts shut down by twitter for violating the terms of use that prohibit impersonation. They thought that impersonation was a free speech … [Read more...]
Archives for October 23, 2009
Report from the Obama/Patrick event
THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Boston! (Applause.) It is good to be back in Massachusetts. (Applause.) It's good to see some familiar faces -- some folks I haven't seen before, I'm glad about that too. In addition to … [Read more...]
Protesters Serenade Health Insurance Confab With Ode to Public Option
AHIP is the powerful insurance lobby that spends 5 million dollars a week trying to kill health care reform. Billionaires for Wealthcare is a grassroots network looking to stop them - with song. AHIP and other insurance and HMO interests … [Read more...]
Massachusetts Rated in Top Forty Strongest U.S. Metro Economies
Interesting item on the front page of Yahoo news. BusinessWeek magazine, using data and analysis from the Brookings Institution's MetroMonitor ranked the top 40 economies based on job growth, employment, economic growth, and home prices. … [Read more...]
Alex Beam’s Alive – Coakley’s Ego – Pags the Pathetic – Howie News- Reps for Coakley – WITH POLL
Thank God. I thought Alex Beam was dead. But to everyone' delight he has found some dry land in the Globe's Metro section where Bostonians can now read his political musings. Fantastic. ----------------- Hey, I told you guys a long time … [Read more...]
Mini BMG PAC fundraiser: send us a dollar. Seriously!
We understand that many of you don't have a lot of spare cash lying around these days. But we hope you might find enough change under the couch cushions to send a dollar -- that's right, $1.00 -- to BMG PAC. Why? Easy. … [Read more...]
Team Boston’s Solar Home Shining the Light Toward the Future
Much like this competition, the United States is currently in a race with China, Spain and other nations for clean energy jobs and technology. In June, the House passed the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act which includes … [Read more...]
Is Martha Really Running?
I know Martha Coakley really is running for the Senate seat, so my title is a bit of a poke in her direction. What strikes me, as a relatively active Democrat, is the silence from her campaign. I suspect she's holding her fire … [Read more...]
OMB: Existing ACORN Deals Can Be Ignored
Cross-posted from Blue News Tribune. Peter Orszag, director of the Office of Management and Budget, issued an ACORN funding memo to federal agencies. It's a doozy. The PDF is linked here (third item). No future obligations of funds. No … [Read more...]
Karzai & Khazei
Friday Spelling Test Without looking, how many BMG'rs can spell both men's names? It took us a while initially to learn to spell "Barack Obama," right? But we got the hang of it. In the Globe today: Karzai bad! Khazei good! … [Read more...]