The Governor's winning streak continues, thanks again to the Herald. Michael Levenson of the Globe reports on the Tabloid of Record's recent blogathon with Patrick: "These questions seem so canned," a chatter calling himself "Sam" … [Read more...]
Archives for March 17, 2010
Boston Libraries Trustees and Power of the People
Rudman promised to let everyone speak, who signed up on the sign in sheet in the lobby; and this meant that the City Councilors would have to wait until everyone spoke to be heard- an unlikely occurrence. One could almost feel the … [Read more...]
Boston Libraries Trustees and Power of the People
Boston Public Library's Trustee meeting was nothing short of remarkable; it was filled with emotion, energy, and everything you could want for a public library meeting except for $3.6 million dollars(the budget shortfall amount facing the … [Read more...]
THE ‘ROUNDING THE GLOBE’ BLOG-8: Continuing Analysis of How The Globe Covers Ed Policy
'Rounding the Globe'- 8: Dropout Rates We Have Known This is submission from the "Better-Late-Than-Never" Dept. On March 14, 2010, the Boston Globe published a curious editorial, which followed up on a news story reporting a decline in the … [Read more...]
Bigots In Mass Legislature
Hey You Guys. Other than the fact that it may affect the bottom line of teachers' unions, why are the blatantly discriminatory Know Nothing Laws still the law in this state. Slavery laws made life easy for slave owners. Know nothing laws … [Read more...]
Restore Gutted Anti-Bullying Bill : Contact your State Rep
In a last minute maneuver, the House Ways and Means Committee gutted the anti-bullying bill pending before the Mass. legislature, scheduled for a vote in the House Thursday 3/18 in the afternoon. They axed the following requirements: 1) … [Read more...]
Kucinich will vote “yes” on health care; blogger conducts hilarious thought experiment
Word on the street is that Dennis Kucinich, who voted "no" on the House health care bill because it didn't go far enough, has agreed after a full-court press by the president to vote "yes" on the Senate bill (which doesn't go as far as the … [Read more...]
An Introduction: Jim Henderson for Secretary of the Commonwealth
As Secretary of the Commonwealth, I will work to make public information truly public by: Making all state public databases accessible through a single website, so a simple Google-like search would bring corporation, real estate, lobbyist … [Read more...]
Stephen Lynch Misrepresents on WGBH, Poised to Vote No on HCR
According to people who heard it (it doesn't seem to be posted online yet), he said he had never heard of "Deem and Pass" before this week. In spite of it being used many many times, including dozens of times by GOP in the last session in … [Read more...]
Cahill running right of Charlie Baker and Scott Brown on health care
Interesting. State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill, an independent candidate for governor making a play for fiscally conservative voters, said yesterday that the state's universal health care law is bankrupting Massachusetts and will do the … [Read more...]