To me, this sounded like a colossal pander to the Tea Party and fiscal conservative crowd, brought on by post-Brownday panic attacks. It also struck me as a pretty radical suggestion: freeze government spending for the next three years on … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2010
Celebrate the WTF New Year
The WTF Alphabetic Days correspond to the astronomical Julian Day, which is used in many computer databases to store date and time information. The first Julian Day (the year AAAAA:) was some day in 4713 BC, which apparenently is the … [Read more...]
Congressman Jim McGovern, MDP Chair John Walsh, Sen. Spilka and Rep. Dykema Event
The communities represented in the MNW Alliance include Ashland, Framingham, Holliston, Hopkinton, Natick, Franklin, Westborough, Sherborn, Millis and Medway. This is also convenient to people in Milford. … [Read more...]
Tax incentives
Tax Incentives: All Carrot And No Stick Commonwealth to spend $1.7B on luring, retaining businesses By Matthew L. Brown Worcester Business Journal Staff Writer 01/18/10 The state is set to put $1.7 billion on tax incentives for economic … [Read more...]
No appetite: Why the legislature should just eat the Gov’s candy tax
Governor Patrick has again proposed removing the sales tax exemption on candy and soda in this year's budget. It will raise an estimated $52m of which a portion will be dedicated to health and wellness programs to fight childhood … [Read more...]
Deval on Left Ahead! Tuesday
Gov. Deval Patrick joins our ragged trio on Left Ahead! Tuesday 2/2/10 for our weekly podcast. We'll cram as much Q&A as we can in a half hour, starting at 1 p.m. Eastern.Catch the live stream here. After the show, it's … [Read more...]
Baker Launches Gubernatorial Bid At Faneuil Hall
The rush from Scott Brown's win has not diminished and the "rise" from Charlie's launch ' today was awesome. He and Richard Tisei addressed a big crowd with some great words today. It's time for sanity to return to Beacon Hill! We will be … [Read more...]
John Kerry at town hall meeting in Lowell today, with link to radio interview from yesterday
Just ahead of Senator John Kerry's appearance at a town hall meeting in the Merrimack Valley this morning, WCAP 980 Radio in Lowell, MA was kind enough to allow us to feature their interview with the Senator from yesterday at our site, John … [Read more...]
Obama to hold Town Hall in Nashua NH on 2/2/10
Forwarded to assist NH Citizen's alliance - Deb Date: Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:41 PM Subject: Town Hall with Obama in Nashua on Tuesday! To: AmberPaw dot gmail.com Sorry for the short notice, but we have just learned that President Obama will … [Read more...]
9/11 trials to be moved from NYC
White House abandons plans to try alleged mastermind in Manhattan Pressured by a growing clamor from New York, the Obama administration has decided to move the trial of Sept. 11 terror suspects away from Manhattan, where it had been … [Read more...]
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