Health Care For All has released a powerful new video in support of national health care reform. Massachusetts patients, doctors, students, consumer advocates, and representatives of small business and labor come together and talk about why … [Read more...]
Archives for March 8, 2010
Good Government?
Does anyone think we have "good government" in Massachusetts? … [Read more...]
How much Bisphenol-A did you serve your kids today?
A quick follow up to my post on 2 March about Governor Patrick's laudable effort to ban the sale of baby bottles and spill-proof cups made with the chemical Bisphenol-A, a substance viewed with "some concern" by the FDA for very young … [Read more...]
Tax break for Liberty Mutual
The City Council is holding a hearing at noon on Friday, March 12, on a tax break Mayor Tom Menino and the Boston Redevelopment Authority have cooked up for insurance giant Liberty Mutual, to subsidize its construction of a tower in the … [Read more...]
Ask your legislators to support – but improve – the Anti-Bullying bill
I've been trying to follow the latest developments with the anti-bullying bill. MassEquality and the MGLPC have put out calls in the last week for members to contact their legislators to support the bill. However, the bill appears to be … [Read more...]
Bump Gets The Job: And It Matters
Recently, I caught this blurb over at Mass Beacon. In it, Bump offers her support for Terry Murray and Karen Spilka's bill to consolidate economic development agencies and funding. Pretty standard stuff, but it was what she said … [Read more...]
Happy International Women’s Day!
Ramdas: Unfortunately, the United States has remained one of, as you mentioned, seven countries that has refused to actually ratify the treaty. The United States technically is a signatory to the treaty. This treaty can best be described as … [Read more...]
Glenn Beck attacks justice and democracy
PoliticsDaily: On his daily radio and television shows last week, Fox News personality Glenn Beck set out to convince his audience that "social justice," the term many Christian churches use to describe their efforts to address poverty and … [Read more...]
Palin confuses irony with hypocrisy
Sarah Palin: We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn't that ironic? " … [Read more...]
dumb excuse of the week
Roy Ashburn has finally come out of the closet. His explanation for years of opposing gay rights? Ashburn, who is divorced, claimed his crusade against proposed gay-rights laws in the California statehouse stemmed from his desire to … [Read more...]